So ood, expecting

    t and high applause [ 505 ]

    to fill rary he hears

    On all sides, from innumerable tongues

    A dismal universal he sound

    Of public scorn;  not long

    himself now more; [ 510 ]

    to sharp and spare,

    o wining

    Eacill supplanted down he fell

    A monstrous Serpent on his Belly prone,

    Reluctant, but in vaine: a greater power [ 515 ]

    Nohe shape he sind,

    According to his doom: he would have spoke,

    But urnd ongue

    to forked tongue, for noransformd

    Alike, to Serpents all as accessories [ 520 ]

    to : dreadful he din

    Of hick swarming now

    ited monsters aile,

    Scorpion and Asp, and Amphisb?na dire,

    Cerastes hornd, hydrus, and Ellops drear, [ 525 ]

    And Dipsas (not so the Soil

    Bedropt he Isle

    Op still greatest ,

    Nohe Sun

    Ingenderd in thian Vale on slime, [ 530 ]

    hon, and his Power no less he seemd

    Above t still to retain; they all

    o th open Field,

    left of t revolted Rout

    ation stood or just array, [ 535 ]

    Sublime ation wo see

    In triumphir glorious Chief;

    t ot instead, a crowd

    Of ugly Serpents; hem fell,

    And  they saw, [ 540 ]

    t thir arms,

    Do,

    And the dire form

    Catcagion, like in punis,

    As in t, [ 545 ]

    turnd to exploding riumpo shame

    Cast on tood

    A Grove hir change,

    o aggra