As when a Vultur on Imaus bred,
Whose snowie ridge the roving Tartar bounds,
Dislodging from a Region scarce of prey
Te the flesh of Lambs or yeanling Kids
On Hills where Flocks are fed, flies toward the Springs [ 435 ]
Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian streams;
But in his way lights on the barren Plaines
Of Seria, where eses drive
With Sails and Wind thir ie Waggons light:
So on this windie Sea of Land, the Fiend [ 440 ]
Walkd up and down alo on his prey,
Alone, for other Creature in this place
Living or liveless to be found was none,
, but store hereafter from the earth
Up hither like Aereal vapours flew [ 445 ]
Of all things transitorie and vain, when Sin
With vanity had filld the works of men:
Both all things vain, and all who in vain things
Built thir fond hopes of Glorie or lasting fame,
Or happiness in this or th other life; [ 450 ]
All who have thir reward oh, the fruits
Of painful Superstition and blind Zeal,
Naught seeking but the praise of men, here find
Fit retributioie as thir deeds;
All th unaplisht works of Natures hand, [ 455 ]
Abortive, monstrous, or unkindly mixt,
Dissolvd oh, fleet hither, and in vain,
Till final dissolution, wander here,
Not in the neighb Moon, as some have dreamd;
Those argent Fields more likely habitants, [ 460 ]
Translated Saints, or middle Spirits hold
Betwixt th Angelical and Human kinde:
Hither of ill-joynd Sons and Daughters born
First from the a World those Giants came
With many a vain exploit, though then renownd: [ 465 ]
The builders of Babel on the Plain
Of Sennaar, and still with vain designe
New Babels, had they wherewithall, would build:
Others came single; he who to be deemd
A God, leapd fondly into Ætna flames [ 470 ]
Empedocles, and hee who to enjoy
Platos Elysium, leapd into the Sea,
brotus, and many more too long,
Embryos and Idiots, Eremits and Friers
White, Blad Grey, with all thir trumperie. [ 475 ]
Here Pilgrims roam, that strayd so farr to seek
In Golgotha him dead, who lives in Heavn;
And they who to be sure of Paradise
Dying put on the weeds of Dominic,
Or in Francis think to pass disguisd; [ 480 ]
They pass the Plas seven, and pass the fixt,
And that Crystalline Sphear whose ballance weighs
The Trepidation talkt, and that first movd;
And now Saier at Heavns Wicket seems
To wait them with his Keys, and now at foot [ 485 ]
Of Heavns ast they lift thir Feet, when loe
A violent cross wind from either Coast
Blows them transverse ten thousand Leagues awry
Into the devious Air; then might ye see
Cowles, Hoods and Habits with thir wearers tost [ 490 ]
And flutterd ints, then Reliques, Beads,
Indulgences, Dispenses, Pardons, Bulls,
The sport of Winds: all these upwhirld aloft
Fly ore the backside of the World farr off
Into a Limbe and broad, since calld [ 495 ]
The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown
Long after, now unpeopld, and untrod;
All this dark Globe the Fiend found as he passd,
And long he wanderd, till at last a gleame
Of dawning light turnd thither-ward in haste [ 500 ]
His travelld steps; farr distant he descries
Asding by degrees magnifit
Up to the
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