Anot in Squadrons and gross Bands, [ 570 ]

    On bold adventure to discover wide

    t dismal world, if any Clime perhaps

    Migation, bend

    Four he Banks

    Of four infernal Rivers t disgorge [ 575 ]

    Into treams;

    Abyx te,

    Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep;

    Cocytus, namd of lamentation loud

    ream; fierce Pon [ 580 ]

    orrent fire inflame h rage.

    Farr off from t stream,

    Lethe River of Oblivion roules

    rie Labyrinth, whereof who drinks,

    Fortate and being forgets, [ 585 ]

    Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.

    Beyond tinent

    Lies dark and  ual storms

    Of hirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land

    t, but gathers heap, and ruin seems [ 590 ]

    Of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice,

    A gulf profound as t Serbonian Bog

    Bet Damiata and Mount Casius old,

    he parching Air

    Burns frore, and cold performs t of Fire. [ 595 ]

    ted Furies haild,

    At certain revolutions all the damnd

    Are brougurns tter change

    Of fierce extreams, extreams by change more fierce,

    From Beds of raging Fire to starve in Ice [ 600 ]

    t Eto pine

    Immovable, infixt, and frozen round,

    Periods of time, to fire.

    thean Sound

    Boto and fro, to augment, [ 605 ]

    And o reach

    tempting stream, o loose

    In s forgetfulness all pain and woe,

    All in one moment, and so nee