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?