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Then choosing out few words most horrible, (Let none them read) thereof did verses frame, With which and other spelles like terrible, He bad awake blacke Plutoes griesly Dame,° And cursed heaven and spake reprochfull shame Of highest God, the Lord of life and light; A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name Great Gorgon,° Prince of darknesse and dead night, At which Cocytus° quakes, and Styx is put to flight.