S Love for Gods,
Not terrible, terrour be in Love [ 490 ]
And beautie, not approacronger e,
e stronger, under shew of Love well feignd,
to end.
So spake the Enemie of Mankind, enclosd
In Serpent, Inmate bad, and toward Eve [ 495 ]
Addressd ed wave,
Prone on t on his reare,
Circular base of rising foulds, t tourd
Fould above fould a surging Maze, his head
Crested aloft, and Carbuncle his Eyes; [ 500 ]
it Neck of verdant Gold, erect
Amidst on the grass
Floted redundant: pleasing was his shape,
And lovely, never since of Serpent kind
Lovelier, not t in Illyria changd [ 505 ]
he God
In Epidaurus; nor to wransformd
Ammonian Jove, or Capitoline was seen,
h her who bore
Scipio tract oblique [ 510 ]
At first, as one feard
to interrupt, side-long he works his way.
As
Nighe ind
Veres oft, as oft so steers, and ss her Saile; [ 515 ]
So varied ortuous traine
Curld many a on of Eve,
to lure he sound
Of rusling Leaves, but minded not, as usd
to suc before he Field, [ 520 ]
From every Beast, more duteous at her call,
t Circean call the herd disguisd.
ood;
But as in gaze admiring: Oft he bowd
urret Crest, and sleek enameld Neck, [ 525 ]
Farod.
le dumb expression turnd at length
to mark his play; he glad
Of tention gaind, tongue
Organic, or impulse of vocal Air, [ 530 ]
temptation thus began.