As we erewounded and amazd,
No wonder, falln such.
whe superiour Fiend
as moving tohe shoar; his ponderous shield
Etemper, massy, large and round, [ 285 ]
Be; the broad circumference
he Moon, whose Orb
tic Glass tuscan Artist views
At Evning from top of Fesole,
Or in Valdarno, to descry new Lands, [ 290 ]
Rivers or Mountains in ty Globe.
o equal Pine
o be t
Of some great Ammiral, a wand,
o support uneasie steps [ 295 ]
Over t like teps
On orrid Clime
Smote on ed h Fire;
Natill on the Beach
Of t inflamed Sea, ood and calld [ 300 ]
ranst
tumnal Leaves t strohe Brooks
In Vallombrosa, wrurian shades
imboterd sedge
Afloat, wh fierce inds Orion armd [ 305 ]
t, whrew
Busiris and his Memphian Chivalry,
red they pursud
the Sojourners of Goshen, who beheld
From ting Carkases [ 310 ]
And broken C rown
Abject and lost lay the Flood,
Under amazement of thir hideous change.
all the hollow Deep
Of entates, [ 315 ]
arriers, t,
If suconis as this can sieze
Eternal spirits; or his place
After toyl of Battel to repose
Your ue, for the ease you find [ 320 ]
to slumber he Vales of heavn?