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Book 2.  530 As at th’ Olympian Games or Pythian fields; Part curb thir fierie Steeds, or hun the Goal With rapid wheels, or fronted Brigads form. As when to warn proud Cities warr appears Wag’d in the troubl’d Skie, and Armies ruh To Battel in the Clouds, before each Van Pric forth the Aerie Knights, and couch thir pears Till thicket Legions cloe; with feats of Arms From either end of Heav’n the welkin burns. Others with vat Typhæan rage more fell 540 Rend up both Rocks and Hills, and ride the Air In whirlwind; Hell carce holds the wilde uproar. As when Alcides, from Oealia Crown’d With conquet, felt th’ envenom’d robe, and tore Through pain up by the roots Thealian Pines, And Lichas from the top of Oeta threw Into th’ Euboic Sea. Others more milde, Retreated in a ilent valley, ing With notes Angelical to many a Harp Thir own Heroic deeds and haples fall 550 By doom of attel; and complain that Fate Free Vertue hould enthrall to Force or Chance. Thir ong was partial, but the harmony (What could it les when Spirits immortal ing?) Supended Hell, and took with ravihment The thronging audience. In dicoure more weet (For Eloquence the Soul, Song charms the Sene,) Others apart at on a Hill retir’d, I n houghts more elevate, and reaon’d high Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will, and Fate, 560 Fixt Fate, free will, foreknowledge abolute, And found no end, in wandring mazes lot.