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380 Of terror, foul and ugly to behold, Horrid to think, how horrible to feel!"
 * To whom thus Michaël:—"Death thou hast seen

In his first shape on Man; but many shapes Of Death, and many are the ways that lead To his grim cave all-dismal; yet to sense More terrible at the entrance than within. Some, as thou sawest, by violent stroke shall die, By fire, flood, famine, by intemperance more In meats and drink, which on the earth shall bring Disease dire, of which a monstrous crew Before thee shall appear; that thou mayst know What misery the inabstinence of Eve Shall bring on men."—Immediately a place Before his eyes appeared, sad, noisome, dark; A lazar-house it seemed, wherein were laid Numbers of all diseased, all maladies Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms Of heartsick agony, all feverous kinds, Convulsions, epilepsies, fierce catarrhs, Intestine stone and ulcer, colic pangs, Demoniac phrenzy, moping melancholy, And moonstruck madness, pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence, Dropsies, and asthmas, and joint-racking rheums.