With scatter'd arms and ensigns, 'till anon 325 330 335 345 They heard, and were abasht, and up they sprung Upon the wing; as when men wont to watch On duty, fleeping found by whom they dread, Rouze and beftir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel; Yet to their General's voice they foon obey'd, Innumerable. As when the potent Rod OF AMRAM'S Son, in ÆGYPT'S evil day, Wav'd round the coast, up call'd a pitchy cloud 340 Of locufts, warping on the eastern wind, That o'er the realm of impious PHARAOH hung Like night, and darken'd all the land of NILE: So numberless were those bad Angels seen Hov'ring on wing under the cope of hell, 'Twixt upper, nether, and furrounding fires: 'Till, as a fignal giv'n, th'up-lifted spear Of their great Sultan waving to direct Their course, in even ballance down they light On the firm brimstone, and fill all the plain: A multitude! like which the populous north Pour'd never from her frozen loins, to pass RHENE or the DANAW, when her barbarous fons Came like a deluge on the fouth, and spread Beneath GIBRALTER to the LIBYAN fands. 355 Forthwith from ev'ry squadron, and each band, The Heads and Leaders thither haste where stood Their great Commander; God-like shapes and forms Excelling human, Princely Dignities, And Pow'rs, that eerst in heaven fat on thrones; 360 Tho, of their names in heav'nly records now 350 Be 364 Be no memorial; blotted out and ras'd tryal of man, By falfities and lies the greatest part 370 Then were they known to men by various names, And various Idols thro' the heathen world. 375 Say, Muse, their names then known; who first, who Rouz'd from the flumber, on that fiery couch, [last, At their great Emperor's call, as next in worth Came fingly where he stood, on the bare strand, While the promiscuous crowd stood yet aloof? 380 The chief were those who from the pit of hell Roaming to feek their prey on earth, durft fix Their feats long after next the feat of God, Their altars by his altar, Gods ador'd Among the nations round, and durst abide JEHOVAH thund'ring out of SION, thron'd Between the Cherubim; yea, often plac'd Within his fanctuary it felf their shrines, Abominations! and with cursed things 385 390 His holy rites and folemn feasts prophan'd, Tho' for the noise of drums and timbrels loud 1 Of |