Sidonian Virgins paid thir Vows and Songs,

Can execute thir aerie purposes, [ 430 ]

Even to that Hill of scandal, by the Grove

His eye survayd the dark Idolatries

Bowd down in Battel, sunk before the Spear

Of alienated Judah. Next came one

Of Baalim and Ashtaroth, those male,

Thir living strength, and unfrequented left

Came Astread.99csw.comoreth, whom the Phoenicians calld

For those the Race of Israel oft forsook

Maimd his brute Image, head and hands lopt off

These Feminine. For Spirits when they please

Of despicable foes. With these in troop

Of Moloch homicide, lust hard by hate;

Whose annual wound in Lebanon allurd

To Idols foul. Thammuz came https://read.99csw.comnext behind,

To bestial Gods; for which thir heads as low [ 435 ]

Ran purple to the Sea, supposd with blood

In his own Temple, on the grunsel edge, [ 460 ]

Astarte, Queen of Heavn, with crescent Horns;

And works of love or enmity fulfill.

Can either Sex assume, or both; so soft

Whose wanton passions in the sacred Pread.99csw.comorch

Infected Sions daughters with like heat,

Of old Euphrates to the Brook that parts [ 420 ]

With these came they, who from the bordring flood

His righteous Altar, bowing lowly down

Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose

Ezekiel saw, when by the Vision led [ 455 ]

Who mournd in earnest, when the Captive Ark

While smread.99csw.comooth Adonis from his native Rock [ 450 ]

Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones,

In Sion also not unsung, where stood

Beguild by fair Idolatresses, fell [ 445 ]

Yet thence his lustful Orgies he enlargd [ 415 ]

Of Thammuz yearly wounded: the Love-tale

Her Temple on th offensive Mountain, built

To whose bright Image nightly by the M九*九*藏*書oon [ 440 ]

In amorous dittyes all a Summers day,

Not tid or manacld with joynt or limb,

Dilated or condenst, bright or obscure,

By that uxorious King, whose heart though large,

The Syrian Damsels to lament his fate

Till good Josiah drove them thence to Hell.

And uncompounded is thir Essence pure, [ 425 ]

Egypt from Syrian ground, had general Names