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    However some tradition they dispersd

    Among the Heathen of thir purchase got,

    And Fabld how the Serpent, whom they calld [ 580 ]

    Ophion with Euryhe wide-

    Encroag Eve perhaps, had first the rule

    Of high Olympus, thence by Saturn drivn

    And Ops, ere yet Di Jove was born.

    Mean while in Par..adise the hellish pair [ 585 ]

    Too soon arrivd, Sin there in power before,

    Oual, now in body, and to dwell

    Habitual habitant; behind her Death

    Close following pace for paot mounted yet

    On his pale Horse: to whom Sin thus began. [ 590 ]

    Sed of Satan sprung, all querih,

    What thinkst thou of our Empi<tt></tt>re now, though earnd

    With travail difficult, not better farr

    Then stil at Hels dark th<q>9９lib?</q>reshold to have sate watch,

    Unnamd, undreaded, and thy self half starvd? [ 595 ]

    Whom thus the Sin-born Monster answerd soon.

    To mee, who with eternal Famin pine,

    Alike is Hell, or Paradise, or Heaven,

    There best, where most with ravin I may meet;

    Which here, though plenteous, all too little seems [ 600 ]

    To stuff this Maw, this vast unhide-bound Corps.

    To whom th iuous Mother thus replid.

    Thou therefore on these Herbs, and Fruits, and Flours

    Feed first, on each Beast , and Fish, and Fowle,

    No homely morsels, and whatever thing [ 605 ]

    The Sithe of Time mowes down, devour unspard,

    Till I in Man residing through the Race,

    His thoughts, his looks, words, as all i,

    And season him thy last and sweetest prey.

    This said, they both betook them several wayes, [ 610 ]

    Both to destroy, or unimmortal make

    All kinds, and for destru to mature

    Sooner or later; which th Almightie seeing,

    From his transdent S..he Saints among,

    To those bright Orders utterd thus his voice. [ 615 ]

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