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Book 2.  And kennel there, yet there till bark’d and howl’d Within uneen. Farr les abhorred then thee 660 Vex’d Scylla bathing in the Sea that parts Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian hore: Nor uglier follow the Night-Hag, when call’d In ecret, riding through the Air he comes Lur’d with the mell of infant blood, to dance With Lapland Witches, while the labouring Moon Eclipes at thir charms. The other hape, If hape it might be call’d that hape had none Ditinguihable in member, joynt, or limb, Or ubtance might be call d that hadow eem’d, 670 For each eem’d either; black it tood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And hook a dreadful Dart; what eem’d his head The likenes of a Kingly Crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his eat The Monter moving onward came as fat, With horrid trides, Hell trembled as he trode. Th’ undaunted Fiend what this might be admir’d, Admir’d, not fear’d; God and his Son except, Created thing naught vallu’d he nor hun’d; 680 And with disdainful look thus firt began. Whence and what art thou, execrable hape, That dar’t, though grim and terrible, advance Thy micreated Front athwart my way To yonder Gates? through them I mean to pas, That be aur’d, without leave askt of thee: Retire, or ta’te thy folly, and learn by proof, Hell-born, not to contend with Spirits of Heav’n. To whom the Goblin full of wrauth reply’d, Art thou that Traitor Angel, art thou hee,