So sented ture, and upturnd

    ril o the murkie Air, [ 280 ]

    Sagacious of his Quarry from so farr.

    t es into te

    ide Anarchie of Chaos damp and dark

    Fle)

    ers;  [ 285 ]

    Solid or slimie, as in raging Sea

    tost up and doogether crowded drove

    From eacoh of hell.

    As wwo Polar inds blowing adverse

    Upon together drive [ 290 ]

    Mountains of Ice, t stop th imagind way

    Beyond Petsora Easto the rich

    Cat. ted Soyle

    Deatrific, cold and dry,

    As rident smote, and fixt as firm [ 295 ]

    As Delos floating once; t his look

    Bound  to move,

    And ic slime; broad as te,

    Deep to ts of herd beach

    tend, and t on [ 300 ]

    Over t, a Bridge

    Of lengto the all

    Immovable of this now fenceless world

    Forfeit to Death; from hence a passage broad,

    Smooto hell. [ 305 ]

    So, if great to small may be compard,

    Xerxes, tie of Greece to yoke,

    From Susa his Memnonian Palace high

    Came to t

    Bridging h Asia joynd, [ 310 ]

    And scourgd roak t waves.

    No

    Pontifical, a ridge of pendent Rock

    Over t Abyss, follorack

    Of Satan, to the self same place where hee [ 315 ]

    First lighted from his ing, and landed safe

    From out of Co t side bare

    Of t

    And C, too fast they made

    And durable; and notle space [ 320 ]

    t of Empyrean heavn

    And of t hand hell

    iterposd; three sevral wayes

    In sigo eachree places led.