So ood, expecting

    t and high applause [ 505 ]

    to fill rary he hears

    On all sides, from innumerable tongues

    A dismal universal he sound

    Of public scorn;  not long

    himself now more; [ 510 ]

    to sharp and spare,

    o wining

    Eacill supplanted down he fell

    A monstrous Serpent on his Belly prone,

    Reluctant, but in vaine: a greater power [ 515 ]

    Nohe shape he sind,

    According to his doom: he would have spoke,

    But urnd ongue

    to forked tongue, for noransformd

    Alike, to Serpents all as accessories [ 520 ]

    to : dreadful he din

    Of hick swarming now

    ited monsters aile,

    Scorpion and Asp, and Amphisb?na dire,

    Cerastes hornd, hydrus, and Ellops drear, [ 525 ]

    And Dipsas (not so the Soil

    Bedropt he Isle

    Op still greatest ,

    Nohe Sun

    Ingenderd in thian Vale on slime, [ 530 ]

    hon, and his Power no less he seemd

    Above t still to retain; they all

    o th open Field,

    left of t revolted Rout

    ation stood or just array, [ 535 ]

    Sublime ation wo see

    In triumphir glorious Chief;

    t ot instead, a crowd

    Of ugly Serpents; hem fell,

    And  they saw, [ 540 ]

    t thir arms,

    Do,

    And the dire form

    Catcagion, like in punis,

    As in t, [ 545 ]

    turnd to exploding riumpo shame

    Cast on tood

    A Grove hir change,

    o aggravate

    t like t [ 550 ]

    of Eve

    Usd by tempter: on t prospect strange

    t eyes they fixd, imagining

    For one forbidden tree a multitude

    Noo hem furder woe or shame; [ 555 ]

    Yet parc and hunger fierce,

    to delude t, could not abstain,

    But on trees

    Climbing, sat the snakie locks

    t curld Meg?ra: greedily they pluckd [ 560 ]

    tage fair to sig which grew

    Neer t bituminous Lake where Sodom flamd;

    t touc taste

    Deceavd; to allay

    tite , instead of Fruit [ 565 ]

    Cter Asaste

    ittering noise rejected: oft they assayd,

    constraining, drugd as oft,

    itefullest disrelishir jaws

    it and cinders filld; so oft they fell [ 570 ]

    Into t as Man

    riump. they plagud

    And h Famin, long and ceasless hiss,

    till t sted, they resumd,

    Yearly enjoynd, some say, to undergo [ 575 ]

    tain numberd days,

    to das.