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Rh  Abominable, inutterable, and wore Then Fables yet have feign’d, or fear conceiv’d, Gorgons and Hydra’s, and Chimera’s dire. Mean while the Adverary of God and Man, 630 Satan with thoughts inflam’d of highet deign, Puts on wift wings, and toward the Gates of Hell Explores his olitary flight; om times He cours the right hand coat, om times the left, Now haves with level wing the Deep, then oares Up to the fiery concave touring high. As when farr off at Sea a Fleet decri’d Hangs in the Clouds, by Æquinoctial Winds Cloe ailing from Bengala, or the Iles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence Merchants bring 640 Thir picie Drugs: they on the trading Flood Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape Ply temming nightly toward the Pole. So eem’d Farr off the flying Fiend: at last appeer Hell bounds high reaching to the horrid Roof, And thrice threefold the Gates; three folds were Bras, Three Iron, three of Adamantine Rock, Impenitrable, impal’d with circling fire, Yet unconum’d. Before the Gates there at On either ide a formidable hape; 650 The one eem’d Woman to the wate, and fair, But ended foul in many a caly fould, Voluminous and vat, a Serpent arm’d With mortal ting: about her middle round A cry of Hell Hounds never ceaing bark’d With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung A hideous Peal: yet, when they lit, would creep, If aught diturb’d thir noye, into her woomb,