As wur on Imaus bred,
artar bounds,
Dislodging from a Region scarce of prey
to gorge the flesh of Lambs or yeanling Kids
On ohe Springs [ 435 ]
Of Ganges or reams;
But in s on the barren Plaines
Of Sericana, where Chineses drive
it:
So on the Fiend [ 440 ]
alkd up and do on his prey,
Alone, for oture in this place
Living or liveless to be found was none,
None yet, but store er from th
Up her like Aereal vapours flew [ 445 ]
Of all transitorie and vain, when Sin
ity he works of men:
Bothings
Built ting fame,
Or her life; [ 450 ]
All ws
Of painful Superstition and blind Zeal,
Naug the praise of men, here find
Fit retribution, emptie as thir deeds;
All t ures hand, [ 455 ]
Abortive, monstrous, or unkindly mixt,
Dissolvd on eart her, and in vain,
till final dissolution, wander here,
Not in the neighbouring Moon, as some have dreamd;
t Fields more likely ants, [ 460 ]
translated Saints, or middle Spirits hold
Bet th Angelical and human kinde:
ers born
First from t orld ts came
it, then renownd: [ 465 ]
t of Babel on the Plain
Of Sennaar, and still h vain designe
New Babels, hall, would build:
Oto be deemd
A God, leapd fondly into ?tna flames [ 470 ]
Empedocles, and o enjoy
Platos Elysium, leapd into the Sea,
Cleombrotus, and many more too long,
Embryos and Idiots, Eremits and Friers
e, Black and Grey, rumperie. [ 475 ]
strayd so farr to seek
In Golgotha him dead, who lives in heavn;
And to be sure of Paradise
Dying put on the weeds of Dominic,
Or in Franciscan to pass disguisd; [ 480 ]
ts seven, and pass t,
And t Crystalline Sphear whose ballance weighs
trepidation talkt, and t first movd;
And no Peter at seems
to t foot [ 485 ]
Of t t, when loe
A violent cross
Bloransverse ten thousand Leagues awry
Into t ye see
Coost [ 490 ]
And flutterd into Raggs, then Reliques, Beads,
Indulgences, Dispenses, Pardons, Bulls,
t of inds: all t
Fly ore the orld farr off
Into a Limbo large and broad, since calld [ 495 ]
to few unknown
Long after, norod;
All the Fiend found as he passd,
And long ill at last a gleame
Of dae [ 500 ]
ravelld steps; farr distant he descries
Ascending by degrees magnificent
Up to tructure high,
At top w farr more rich appeerd
te [ 505 ]
itispice of Diamond and Gold
Imbellis Gemmes
tal sable on Earth
By Model, or by shading Pencil drawn.