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 * Whom thus the Sin-born monster answered soon:

"To me, who with eternal famine pine, Alike is Hell, or Paradise, or Heaven; There best, where most with ravin I may meet; Which here, though plenteous, all too little seems To stuff this maw, this vast unhide-bound corpse."
 * To whom the incestuous mother thus replied:

"Thou therefore on these herbs, and fruits, and flowers Feed first; on each beast next, and fish, and fowl— No homely morsels—and, whatever thing The scythe of Time mows down, devour unspared; Till I, in Man residing, through the race, His thoughts, his looks, words, actions, all infect, And season him thy last and sweetest prey."
 * This said, they both betook them several ways,

Both to destroy, or unimmortal make All kinds, and for destruction to mature Sooner or later; which the Almighty seeing, From his transcendent seat the Saints among, To those bright Orders uttered thus his voice:
 * "See with what heat these dogs of Hell advance

To waste and havoc yonder World, which I So fair and good created, and had still Kept in that state, had not the folly of Man