So ood, expeg
t and high applause [ 505 ]
to fill rary he hears
On all sides, from innumerable tongues
A dismal universal he sound
Of public s; not long
himself now more; [ 510 ]
to sharp and spare,
o wining
Eacill supplanted down he fell
A monstrous Serpent on his Belly prone,
Relut, but in vaine: a greater power [ 515 ]
Nohe shape he sind,
Acc to his doom: he would have spoke,
But urnd ongue
to forked tongue, for noransformd
Alike, to Serpents all as accessories [ 520 ]
to : dreadful he din
Of hick swarming now
ited monsters aile,
Scorpion and Asp, and Amphisb?na dire,
Cerastes hornd, hydrus, and Ellops drear, [ 525 ]
And Dipsas (not so the Soil
Bedropt he Isle
Op still greatest ,
Nohe Sun
Ingenderd in thian Vale on slime, [ 530 ]
hon, and his Power no less he seemd
Above t still to retain; they all
o th open Field,
left of t revolted Rout
ation stood or just array, [ 535 ]
Sublime ation wo see
In triumphir glorious Chief;
t ot instead, a crowd
Of ugly Serpents; hem fell,
And they saw, [ 540 ]
t thir arms,
Do,
And the dire form
Catcagion, like in punis,
As in t, [ 545 ]
turnd to exploding riumpo shame
Cast on tood
A Grove hir ge,
o aggravate
t like t [ 550 ]
of Eve
Usd by tempter: on t prospect strange
t eyes they fixd, imagining
For one forbidden tree a multitude
Noo hem furder woe or shame; [ 555 ]
Yet pard hunger fierce,
to delude t, could not abstain,
But on trees
Climbing, sat the snakie locks
t curld Meg?ra: greedily they pluckd [ 560 ]
tage fair to sig which grew
bituminous Lake where Sodom flamd;
t touc taste
Deceavd; to allay
tite , instead of Fruit [ 565 ]
Cter Asaste
ittering noise rejected: oft they assayd,
straining, drugd as oft,
itefullest disrelishir jaws
it and ders filld; so oft they fell [ 570 ]
Into t as Man
riump. they plagud
And h Famin, long and ceasless hiss,
till t sted, they resumd,
Yearly enjoynd, some say, to undergo [ 575 ]
tain numberd days,
to das.
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