Mean whe Adversary of God and Man,

    Satan s inflamd of  design, [ 630 ]

    Puts on s oes of hell

    Explores ary fligimes

    , som times t,

    Now shen soares

    Up to touring high. [ 635 ]

    As  descrid

    ial inds

    Close sailing from Bengala, or the Iles

    Of ternate and tidore, ws bring

    trading Flood [ 640 ]

    to the Cape

    Ply stemming nigohe Pole. So seemd

    Farr off t last appeer

    o the horrid Roof,

    And tes; three folds were Brass, [ 645 ]

    tine Rock,

    Impenetrable, impald h circling fire,

    Yet unconsumd. Before tes t

    On either side a formidable shape;

    to te, and fair, [ 650 ]

    But ended foul in many a scaly fould

    Voluminous and vast, a Serpent armd

    ital sting: about her middle round

    A cry of hell hounds never ceasing barkd

    iths full loud, and rung [ 655 ]

    A , w, would creep,

    If augurbd to her woomb,

    And kennel t till barkd and howld

    ithese

    Vexd Scylla bat parts [ 660 ]

    Calabria from trinacrian shore:

    Nor uglier follo-hag, when calld

    In secret, riding the Air she comes

    Lurd  blood, to dance

    itche labouring Moon [ 665 ]

    Eclipses at ther shape,

    If s mig shape had none

    Distinguis, or limb,

    Or substance mig shadow seemd,

    For eac stood as Night, [ 670 ]

    Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell,

    And s; w seemd his head

    the likeness of a Kingly Crown had on.