The Sithe of Time mowes down, devour unspard,

Thou therefore on these Herbs, and Fruits, and Flours

However some tradition they dispersd

Close following pace for pace, not mounted yet

To whom th incestuous Mother thus replid.

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

Whomhttps://read.99csw.com thus the Sin-born Monster answerd soon.

Till I in Man residing through the Race,

With travail difficult, not better farr

Alike is Hell, or Paradise, or Heaven,

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

And Fabld how the Serpent, whom they calld [ 580 ]九*九*藏*書

There best, where most with ravin I may meet;

Both to destroy, or unimmortal make

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

Second of Satan sprung, all conquering Death,

Of high Olympus, thence by Saturn drivn

And Ops, ere yet Dictæan Jove was born.

Once actual, now in body, a九-九-藏-書nd to dwell

Ophion with Eurynome, the wide-

What thinkst thou of our Empire now, though earnd

No homely morsels, and whatever thing [ 605 ]

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

Encroaching Eve perhaps, had first the rule

All kinds, and for destruction to mature

On his palhttｐs://ｒｅaｄ.９９ｃｓw•cｏme Horse: to whom Sin thus began. [ 590 ]

Habitual habitant; behind her Death

From his transcendent Seat the Saints among,

Mean while in Paradise the hellish pair [ 585 ]

To mee, who with eternal Famin pine,

And season him thy last and sweetest prey.

Which here, though plenteous, all too litt九-九-藏-書le seems [ 600 ]

Then stil at Hels dark threshold to have sate watch,

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

Among the Heathen of thir purchase got,

His thoughts, his looks, words, actions all infect,

Sooner or later; which th Almightie seeing,

Too soon arrivd, Sin there in power before,