Yet tful Orgies he enlargd [ 415 ]

    Even to t he Grove

    Of Moloc e;

    till good Josiao hell.

    ithe bordring flood

    Of old Eupes to t parts [ 420 ]

    Egypt from Syrian ground, had general Names

    Of Baalim and Ashose male,

    ts whey please

    Can eit

    And uncompounded is thir Essence pure, [ 425 ]

    Not tid or manacld  or limb,

    Nor founded on ttle strength of bones,

    Like cumbrous fles in w shey choose

    Dilated or condenst, bright or obscure,

    Can execute thir aerie purposes, [ 430 ]

    And y fulfill.

    For t forsook

    trengted left

    eous Altar, bowing lowly down

    to bestial Gods; for whir heads as low [ 435 ]

    Botel, sunk before the Spear

    Of despicable foes. itroop

    Came Astorethe Phoenicians calld

    Astarte, Queen of  horns;

    to w Image nighe Moon [ 440 ]

    Sidonian Virgins paid thir Vows and Songs,

    In Sion also not unsung, wood

    emple on tain, built

    By t uxorious King, hough large,

    Beguild by fair Idolatresses, fell [ 445 ]

    to Idols foul. t behind,

    hose annual wound in Lebanon allurd

    to lament e

    In amorous dittyes all a Summers day,

    ive Rock [ 450 ]

    Ran purple to th blood

    Of tale

    Infected Sions daug,

    on passions in the sacred Porch

    Ezekiel saw, whe Vision led [ 455 ]

    ries

    Of alienated Juda came one

    , wive Ark