Or in t posture have ye sworn
to adore the Conquerour? who now beholds
Che Flood
itterd Arms and Ensigns, till anon [ 325 ]
pursuers from es discern
tage, and descending tread us down
ts
transfix us to ttom of this Gulfe.
Awake, arise, or be for ever falln. [ 330 ]
t, and up they sprung
Upon t to ch
On duty, sleeping found by whey dread,
Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake.
Nor did t perceave t [ 335 ]
In w feel;
Yet to they soon obeyd
Innumerable. As Rod
Of Amrams Son in Egypts evill day
avd round t, up calld a pitchy cloud [ 340 ]
Of Locusts, ern ind,
t ore the Realm of impious Pharaoh hung
Like Nighe Land of Nile:
So numberless hose bad Angels seen
he Cope of hell [ 345 ]
t upper, nether, and surrounding Fires;
till, as a signal givn, ted Spear
Of t Sultan o direct
t
On tone, and fill all the Plain; [ 350 ]
A multitude, like wh
Pourd never from o pass
Rhe Danaw, when her barbarous Sons
Came like a Deluge on th, and spread
Beneater to the Lybian sands. [ 355 ]
Forth from every Squadron and each Band
t wood
t Commander; Godlike shapes and forms
Excelling ies,
And Po earst in on thrones; [ 360 ]
thir Names in heavnly Records now
Be no memorial blotted out and rasd
By the Books of Life.
Nor among the Sons of Eve
Got till h, [ 365 ]
tryal of man,
By falsities and lyes test part
Of Mankind ted to forsake
God tor, and th invisible
Glory of made to transform [ 370 ]
Oft to te, adornd
ith gay Religions full of Pomp and Gold,