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    radition they dispersd

    Among t,

    And Fabld , whey calld [ 580 ]

    Ophe wide-

    Encroac the rule

    Of urn drivn

    And Ops, ere yet Dict?an Jove was born.

    Mean whe hellish pair [ 585 ]

    too soon arrivd, Sin there in power before,

    Once actual, noo dwell

    ual ant; beh

    Close follo mounted yet

    On o whus began. [ 590 ]

    Second of Satan sprung, all conquering Death,

    t though earnd

    itravail difficult, not better farr

    til at o e ch,

    Unnamd, undreaded, and tarvd? [ 595 ]

    er answerd soon.

    to mee, wernal Famin pine,

    Alike is hell, or Paradise, or heaven,

    t, ;

    eous, all too little seems [ 600 ]

    to stuff t unhide-bound Corps.

    to hus replid.

    ts, and Flours

    Feed first, on eac next, and Fish, and Fowle,

    No ever thing [ 605 ]

    time mowes down, devour unspard,

    till I in Man residing the Race,

    s, ions all infect,

    And season  and sest prey.

    took them several wayes, [ 610 ]

    Boto destroy, or unimmortal make

    All kinds, and for destruction to mature

    Sooner or later; wie seeing,

    From ranscendent Seat ts among,

    to t Orders utterd thus his voice. [ 615 ]