Of painful Superstition and blind Zeal,

Or in Franciscan think to pass disguisd; [ 480 ]

With many a vain exploit, though then renownd: [ 465 ]

Translated Saints, or middle Spirits hold

They pass the Planets seven, and pass the fixt,

Cowles, Hoods and Habits with thir wearers tost [ 490 ]

In Golgotha him dead, who lives in Heavn;

First from the ancient World those Giants came

The Portal shon, inimitable on Earth

Of Sericana, where Chineses drive

And they who to be sure of Paradise

Those argent Fields more likely habitants, [ 460 ]

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Betwixt th Angelical and Human kinde:

Indulgences, Dispenses, Pardons, Bulls,

At top whereof, but farr more rich appeerd

Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian streams;

Others came single; he who to be deemd

Into the devious Air; then might ye see

Not in the neighbouring Moon, as some have dreamd;

Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find

Platos Elysium, leapd into the Sea,

To gorge the flesh of Lambs or yeanling Kids

Alone, for other Creature in this place

Dislodging from a Region scarce of prey

Imbellisht, thick with sparkling orient Gemmes九_九_藏_書

Into a Limbo large and broad, since calld [ 495 ]

Of all things transitorie and vain, when Sin

To wait them with his Keys, and now at foot [ 485 ]

Fly ore the backside of the World farr off

The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown

The sport of Winds: all these upwhirld aloft

As when a Vultur on Imaus bred,

Built thir fond hopes of Glorie or lasting fame,

Walkd up and down alone bent on his prey,

Dissolvd on earth, fleet hither, and in vain,

Of Heavns ascent they lift thir Feet, when loe

Dying put on the weeds of Dominic,

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The work as of a Kingly Palace Gate [ 505 ]

Whose snowie ridge the roving Tartar bounds,

All who have thir reward on Earth, the fruits

Fit retribution, emptie as thir deeds;

None yet, but store hereafter from the earth

Up hither like Aereal vapours flew [ 445 ]

Till final dissolution, wander here,

Here Pilgrims roam, that strayd so farr to seek

Empedocles, and hee who to enjoy

And long he wanderd, till at last a gleame

All th unaccomplisht works of Natures hand, [ 455 ]

Both all things vain, and all who in vain things

Blows them transverse ten thousand Leagues awry

九-九-藏-書White, Black and Grey, with all thir trumperie. [ 475 ]

So on this windie Sea of Land, the Fiend [ 440 ]

Long after, now unpeopld, and untrod;

And flutterd into Raggs, then Reliques, Beads,

With Frontispice of Diamond and Gold

A violent cross wind from either Coast

With Sails and Wind thir canie Waggons light:

Cleombrotus, and many more too long,

Of dawning light turnd thither-ward in haste [ 500 ]

And that Crystalline Sphear whose ballance weighs

Or happiness in this or th other life; [ 450 ]

All this dark Globe the Fiend found as he passd,

Embryos and Idiots, Eremits and Friers

Up九*九*藏*書 to the wall of Heaven a Structure high,

Ascending by degrees magnificent

With vanity had filld the works of men:

On Hills where Flocks are fed, flies toward the Springs [ 435 ]

Hither of ill-joynd Sons and Daughters born

But in his way lights on the barren Plaines

And now Saint Peter at Heavns Wicket seems

Living or liveless to be found was none,

His travelld steps; farr distant he descries

Abortive, monstrous, or unkindly mixt,

The builders next of Babel on the Plain

By Model, or by shading Pencil drawn.

Of Sennaar, and still with vain designe

A God, leapd fondly into Ætna flames [ 470 ]