Yet tful Orgies he enlargd [ 415 ]
Even to t he Grove
Of Moloc e;
till good Josiao hell.
ithe bordring flood
Of old Eupes to t parts [ 420 ]
Egypt from Syrian ground, had general Names
Of Baalim and Ashose male,
ts whey please
Can eit
And uncompounded is thir Essence pure, [ 425 ]
Not tid or manacld or limb,
Nor founded on ttle strength of bones,
Like cumbrous fles in w shey choose
Dilated or condenst, bright or obscure,
Can execute thir aerie purposes, [ 430 ]
And y fulfill.
For t forsook
trengted left
eous Altar, bowing lowly down
to bestial Gods; for whir heads as low [ 435 ]
Botel, sunk before the Spear
Of despicable foes. itroop
Came Astorethe Phoenicians calld
Astarte, Queen of horns;
to w Image nighe Moon [ 440 ]
Sidonian Virgins paid thir Vows and Songs,
In Sion also not unsung, wood
emple on tain, built
By t uxorious King, hough large,
Beguild by fair Idolatresses, fell [ 445 ]
to Idols foul. t behind,
hose annual wound in Lebanon allurd
to lament e
In amorous dittyes all a Summers day,
ive Rock [ 450 ]
Ran purple to th blood
Of tale
Infected Sions daug,
on passions in the sacred Porch
Ezekiel saw, whe Vision led [ 455 ]
ries
Of alienated Juda came one
, wive Ark
Maimd e Image, off
In emple, on the grunsel edge, [ 460 ]