However some tradition they dispersd
Among the Heathen of thir purchase got,
And Fabld how the Serpent, whom they calld [ 580 ]
Ophion with Euryhe wide-
Encroag Eve perhaps, had first the rule
Of high Olympus, thence by Saturn drivn
And Ops, ere yet Di Jove was born.
Mean while in Paradise the hellish pair [ 585 ]
Too soon arrivd, Sin there in power before,
Oual, now in body, and to dwell
Habitual habitant; behind her Death
Close following pace for paot mounted yet
On his pale Horse: to whom Sin thus began. [ 590 ]
Sed of Satan sprung, all querih,
What thinkst thou of our Empire now, though earnd
With travail difficult, not better farr
Then stil at Hels dark threshold to have sate watch,
Unnamd, undreaded, and thy self half starvd? [ 595 ]
Whom thus the Sin-born Monster answerd soon.
To mee, who with eternal Famin 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……（内容加载失败！）
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