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    And Devils to adore for Deities:

    to men by various Names,

    And various Idols then orld. [ 375 ]

    Say, Muse, t, w,

    Rousd from t fiery Couch,

    At t Emperors call, as next in h

    Came singly rand,

    ood yet aloof? [ 380 ]

    t of hell

    Roaming to seek t fix

    ts long after next t of God,

    tars by ar, Gods adord

    Among tions round, and durst abide [ 385 ]

    Je of Sion, thrond

    Beten placd

    ituary it self thir Shrines,

    Abominations; and hings

    es, and solemn Feasts profand, [ 390 ]

    And  affront .

    First Moloch blood

    Of s tears,

    timbrels loud

    t past through fire [ 395 ]

    to e

    ors in Rabba and ry Plain,

    In Argob and in Basan, to tream

    Of utmost Arnon. Nor content h such

    Audacious neig  [ 400 ]

    Of Solomon o build

    emple rig temple of God

    On t opprobrious hill, and made his Grove

    t Vally of op thence

    And black Geype of hell. [ 405 ]

    Next Ch obscene dread of Moabs Sons,

    From Aroar to Nebo, and the wild

    Of Sout Abarim; in hesebon

    And horonaim, Seons Realm, beyond

    th Vines, [ 410 ]

    And Eleale to tick Pool.

    Peor icd

    Israel in Sittim on thir march from Nile

    to do on rites, hem woe.