r the brink;

    But fate ands, and to oppose ttempt [ 610 ]

    Medusa error guards

    t self ter flies

    All taste of living wig fled

    tantalus. thus roving on

    In confusd marcrous Bands [ 615 ]

    it

    Vie table lot, and found

    No rest: through many a dark and drearie Vaile

    they passd, and many a Region dolorous,

    Oer many a Frozen, many a fierie Alpe, [ 620 ]

    Rocks, Caves, Lakes, Fens, Bogs, Dens, and sh,

    A Universe of death, which God by curse

    Created evil, for evil only good,

    ure breeds,

    Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, [ 625 ]

    Abominable, inutterable, and worse

    t have feignd, or fear conceivd,

    Gorgons and hydras, and Chimeras dire.