The Annotated Milton: Complete English Poems - Plot & Excerpts
On that prospect 5443 strange5444 553 Their earnest eyes they fixed, imagining 554 For one forbidden tree a multitude 555 Now ris’n, to work them further woe or shame. 556 Yet parched with scalding thirst and hunger fierce, 557 Though to delude them sent, could not abstain, 558 But on they rolled in heaps, and up the trees 559 Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks 560 That curled Megaera.5445 Greedily they plucked 561 The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew 562 Near that bituminous 5446 lake 5447 where Sodom flamed— 563 This more delusive, not the touch, but taste 564 Deceived. They fondly5448 thinking to allay 565 Their appetite with gust,5449 instead of fruit 566 Chewed bitter ashes, which th’ offended taste 567 With spattering noise rejected. Oft they assayed, 568 Hunger and thirst constraining, drugged 5450 as oft, 569 With hatefullest disrelish5451 writhed their jaws, 570 With soot and cinders filled.
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