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    So having said, a while he stood, expeg

    Thir universal shout and high applause [ 505 ]

    To fill his eare, when trary he hears

    On all sides, from innumerable tongues

    A dismal universal hiss, the sound

    Of public s; he wonderd, but not long

    Had leasure, w at himself now more; [ 510 ]

    His Visage drawn he felt to sharp and spare,

    His Armes g to his Ribs, his Leggs entwining

    Each other, till supplanted down he fell

    A monstrous Serpent on his Belly prone,

    Relut, but in vaine: a greater power [ 515 ]

    Now ruld him, punisht in the shape he sind,

    Acc to his doom: he would have spoke,

    But hiss for hiss returnd with fo<dfn></dfongue

    To forked tongue, for now were all transformd

    Alike, to Serpents all as accessories [ 520 ]

    To his bold Riot: dreadful was the din

    Of hissing through the Hall, thick swarming now

    With plicated monster<big></big>s head and taile,

    Scorpion and Asp, and Amphisb?na dire,

    Cerastes hornd, Hydrus, and Ellops drear, [ 525 ]

    And Dipsas (not so thick swarmd ohe Soil

    Bedropt with blood of Gon, or the Isle

    Ophiusa) but still greatest hee the midst,

    Non grown, larger then whom the Sun<s>..</s>

    Ingenderd ihian Vale on slime, [ 530 ]

    Huge Python, and his Power no less he seemd

    Above the rest still to retain; they all

    Him followd issuing forth to th open Field,

    Where all yet left of that revolted Rout

    Heavn-falln, in station stood or just array, [ 535 ]

    Sublime with expectatioo see

    In Triumph issuing forth thir glorious Chief;

    They saw, but ht instead, a crowd

    Of ugly Serpents; horror on them fell,

    And horrid sympathie; for what they saw, [ 540 ]

    They felt themselvs now ging; down thir arms,

    Down fell both Spear and Shield, down they as fast,

    And the dire hiss renewd, and the dire form

    Catcht by tagion, like in punishment,

    As in thir crime. Thus was th applause they meant, [ 545 ]

    Turnd to exploding <q>９9liｂ?</q>hiss, triumph to shame

    Cast on themselves from thir own mouths. There stood

    A Grove hard by, sprung up with this thir ge,

    His will whns above, to aggravate

    Thir penance, laden with Fruit like that [ 550 ]

    Which grew in Paradise, the bait of Eve

    Usd by the Tempter: on that prospect strange

    Thir ear eyes they fixd, imagining

    For one forbidden Tree a multitude

    Now risn, to work them furder woe or shame; [ 555 ]

    Yet parcht with scalding thurst and hunger fierce,

    Though to delude them sent, could not abstain,

    But on they rould in heaps, and up the Trees

    Climbing, sat thicker then the snakie locks

    That curld Meg?ra: greedily they pluckd [ 560 ]

    The Frutage fair to sight, like that which grew

    hat bituminous Lake where Sodom flamd;

    This mo<s></s>re delusive, not the touch, but taste

    Deceavd; they fondly thinking to allay

    Thir appetite with gust, instead of Fruit [ 565 ]

    Chewd bitter Ashes, which th offeaste

    With spattering noise rejected: oft they assayd,

    Hunger and thirst straining, drugd as oft,

    With hatefullest disrelish writhd thir jaws

    With soot and ders filld; so oft they fell [ 570 ]

    Into the same illusion, not as Man

    Whom they triumphd once lapst. Thus were they plagud

    And worn with Famin, long and ceasless hiss,

    Till thir lost shape, permitted, they resumd,

    Yearly enjoynd, some say, to undergo [ 575 ]

    This annual humbliain numberd days,

    To dash thir pride, and joy for Ma.

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