912:00,000[' ]| 912:00,000[' ]| 912:00,000[' ]| 912:00,001[' ]| This rumour entering angry Titan's ears, 912:00,002[' ]| His livid heartstrings with new gall besmears; 912:00,003[' ]| In rage he Saturn by the codpiece took 912:00,004[' ]| And scared him so with wrathful hideous look 912:00,005[' ]| Within the flesh that his long shin-bones shook. 912:00,006[B ]| Brother, 912:00,006[' ]| said he, 912:00,006[B ]| brother what curses strange 912:00,007[B ]| Did from your mouth and oaths in volleys range? 912:00,008[B ]| How much you swore, by Stygian powers you swore 912:00,009[B ]| (All Hell consenting with united roar) 912:00,010[B ]| On earth nought in upon my hopes should break 912:00,011[B ]| Nor from your loins degenerate bantling sneak. 912:00,012[B ]| Yet now of Jove the woods and valleys ring, 912:00,013[B ]| Jove's health all drink, of Jove all say and sing; 912:00,014[B ]| Jove fills the court, the country and the town, 912:00,015[B ]| All call him Saturn's son and rightful heir to the crown. 912:00,016[' ]| Saturn aghast sinks down into a couch 912:00,017[' ]| (In other points might for his manhood vouch), 912:00,018[' ]| Long meagre face with foreign muslin wipes, 912:00,019[' ]| Then speaks to Titan with protesting lips: 912:00,020[A ]| What have I left unsaid, what left undone 912:00,021[A ]| To make you next successor on the throne? 912:00,022[A ]| If my seed lives it was not Saturn's fault; 912:00,023[A ]| I gave all over to the somersault. 912:00,024[A ]| But if disloyal pity swayed my wife 912:00,025[A ]| Or out of crossness she has saved a life, 912:00,026[A ]| Her and her brat I will renounce this hour, 912:00,027[A ]| Declare him bastard and his mother whore. 912:00,028[' ]| At this the giant half contented grins, 912:00,029[' ]| His festered soul to cooler mood inclines; 912:00,030[' ]| The wonted tempest from his brow retreats 912:00,031[' ]| And rage more hushed through his arched nostrils beats. 912:00,032[' ]| Saturn long lost and from his senses ta'en 912:00,033[' ]| Now finds and feels and shows himself again 912:00,034[' ]| And straight does he to fair Messina send 912:00,035[' ]| From the Isthmus to the Promontory's end; 912:00,036[' ]| To those the large Tressonian valleys till, 912:00,037[' ]| That Pelion climb, that by Cythera dwell, 912:00,038[' ]| That void of ruth Dodonaean timber fell, 912:00,039[' ]| That Pydna round and Potidaea plow, 912:00,040[' ]| And Lilaea where amorous pigeons coo, 912:00,041[' ]| Cone under hill, Iolchos in the clay, 912:00,042[' ]| Hyampolis, Daulis, Oechalia, 912:00,043[' ]| Where minstrels strange the muses did provoke, 912:00,044[' ]| And Dorian where they Roger's fiddle broke; 912:00,045[' ]| Who Tarphian fields and Aepy let to farm, 912:00,046[' ]| And Calydon with lovely lasses warm; 912:00,047[' ]| Who from Caphareus view the Aegean wide; 912:00,048[' ]| The ruddy squires o'er northern wolds that ride; 912:00,049[' ]| In Beefland who keep house and on the coast 912:00,050[' ]| Euboean where the noblest sirloins roast; 912:00,051[' ]| Who Hebrus drink, who in Aesopus soak 912:00,052[' ]| And who with melted corn Acheloian horns provoke; 912:00,053[' ]| Who chase the foaming boar o'er brake and burn 912:00,054[' ]| And glad at night Erymanthian rashers turn: 912:00,055[' ]| These and his other barons far and near 912:00,056[' ]| And bishops that with hecatombs make cheer 912:00,057[' ]| Are that day month all summoned to appear. 912:00,058[' ]| Said he, 912:00,058[A ]| These (since I cannot single strive) 912:00,059[A ]| Shall joint advice in Panionian give. 912:00,060[B ]| You call, 912:00,060[' ]| quoth Titan, (mad and like to burst) 912:00,061[B ]| The Panionian? 912:00,062[B ]| 's blood you shall call the Pandaemonium first! 912:00,063[B ]| Hell, Acheron and Styx by which you swore 912:00,064[B ]| Give their advice, what counsel needs there more? 912:00,065[B ]| Shall common breath our royal wills debate 912:00,066[B ]| What we, what you and I resolve is fate? 912:00,067[B ]| In secret only 'twixt ourselves you vowed, 912:00,068[B ]| You swore to me, does that concern the crowd? 912:00,069[B ]| Then rouse and act as the affair enjoins 912:00,070[B ]| And seize the vile pretender to your loins. 912:00,071[' ]| Then answered Saturn with a visage mild, 912:00,072[A ]| Brother, wouldst have me I will eat my child, 912:00,073[A ]| Be caterer you and lay him in my dish ~~ 912:00,074[B ]| Said like a king, 912:00,074[' ]| quoth Titan, 912:00,074[B ]| but I wish 912:00,075[B ]| You had more early mouthed him whilst a chick, 912:00,076[B ]| For now perchance he in your fangs may stick 912:00,077[B ]| Or find us both a cross damned bone to pick. 912:00,078[' ]| Half mad, half prophet, thus the giant raved 912:00,079[' ]| When to the teeth a fresh alarm him braved: 912:00,080[' ]| Fame strong and thick his obstinate ears invades, 912:00,081[' ]| Says, High and low, white staffs and humble spades 912:00,082[' ]| From hall and cottage, from both town and grange, 912:00,083[' ]| From heath and ham to Jove's retirement range; 912:00,084[' ]| Nor this by stealth or nightly caution done 912:00,085[' ]| But in broad day and open to the sun. 912:00,086[' ]| Now Titan into downright rage flies out, 912:00,087[' ]| He picks his nose and stamps and flings about; 912:00,088[' ]| Here gripes, there cuffs, there swings his barbarous steel 912:00,089[' ]| But Saturn's stones his first dire vengeance feel. 912:00,090[' ]| Then musters he all that in cellars skulk, 912:00,091[' ]| Lie rough in entries or that snore on bulk, 912:00,092[' ]| In alleys sneak, suburban garrets cram, 912:00,093[' ]| Tories of double form and triple name, 912:00,094[' ]| From gaols escaped, from pillories unpinned, 912:00,095[' ]| And from high pad completely disciplined, 912:00,096[' ]| Skip-kennels, roisters, ruffians profane 912:00,097[' ]| And buggerers all, a foul ungodly train; 912:00,098[' ]| Those who from loughs their tainted breath had drawn, 912:00,099[' ]| Monsters and orks and bogs' ungracious spawn. 912:00,100[' ]| Say, Muse, who did in chief that crew command 912:00,101[' ]| And in the front against Jove's thunder stand? 912:00,102[C ]| Rhoetus did head a bold, blaspheming rout, 912:00,103[C ]| Gyes did there with hundred elbows strut, 912:00,104[C ]| And not less terrible Iapetus, 912:00,105[C ]| Aegaeon, Briareus and Enceladus. 912:00,106[C ]| Aloud Typhoeus God and Nature cursed, 912:00,107[C ]| Typhoeus 'twas that shouldered Pelion first, 912:00,108[C ]| And sure he Pelion had on Ossa thrown, 912:00,109[C ]| But Nature, vexed, compelled him set it down. 912:00,110[C ]| Lordalius's every limb did monster bode, 912:00,111[C ]| The farthest Thule groaned beneath his load; 912:00,112[C ]| His tongue a thousand serpents did unfold 912:00,113[C ]| When out at length and thirty furlongs rolled, 912:00,114[C ]| Drawn back and furled and doubled up again 912:00,115[C ]| Was scarce contained in the huge spacious den; 912:00,116[C ]| A thousand dogs all kenneled in his paunch 912:00,117[C ]| On murthered Greeks that did insatiate scraunch; 912:00,118[C ]| They drank, they wallowed there in human gore 912:00,119[C ]| Yet at his arse still snarl and bark for more. 912:00,120[C ]| You'd think unmuzzled Cerberus kept the door. 912:00,121[C ]| The mastiffs round his sister Scylla's bum, 912:00,122[C ]| That in the ocean with such fury foam, 912:00,123[C ]| Are tied up short and worry not from home, 912:00,124[C ]| But nauseous are Lordalius's feasting rooms, 912:00,125[C ]| Makes dogs' meat all and carrion where he comes. 912:00,126[C ]| Camp must have trull; great wickedness will stick 912:00,127[C ]| Unless male strength hath aid from female trick: 912:00,128[C ]| These had Promethe, who in fatal hour 912:00,129[C ]| Was hither wafted from the Celtic shore. 912:00,130[C ]| What giant durst have plotted to remove 912:00,131[C ]| The crown from Saturn and Saturnian Jove 912:00,132[C ]| But for this sorceress ever on the watch 912:00,133[C ]| At easy hours and in the night's debauch 912:00,134[C ]| So that when threats and open forces failed 912:00,135[C ]| Her philters and obscene devices held? 912:00,136[C ]| Then prostituted hands and lips and tongue, 912:00,137[C ]| On his soft part mysterious tassels hung, 912:00,138[C ]| And empty nerves with false, deceiving vigour strung. 912:00,139[C ]| Not all the juice from deadly hemlock pressed, 912:00,140[C ]| All the benumbing opium of the East, 912:00,141[C ]| Not poust on wretched Indian Prince imposed 912:00,142[C ]| Could, like her charms, have Saturn's senses dozed 912:00,143[C ]| With midnight murmur, with unhallowed spell 912:00,144[C ]| And magic lurry, Circe in her cell 912:00,145[C ]| Transformed him beast, whatever came to hand: 912:00,146[C ]| An ass, a hog, or dog at her command. 912:00,147[C ]| But never dog with tail to bottle wed, 912:00,148[C ]| Never was hog in turd plunged over head, 912:00,149[C ]| Never was ass when he by hunger tired, 912:00,150[C ]| Mumbling a thistle his broad lips bestirred, 912:00,151[C ]| Deformed, ridiculous, despicable made 912:00,152[C ]| As thou O Saturn by this hag betrayed! 912:00,153[C ]| She turns him into all and everything, 912:00,154[C ]| To any shape but that of man and king: 912:00,155[C ]| Sometimes so far from man and king undone 912:00,156[C ]| You see him loose among the spaniels run; 912:00,157[C ]| Sometimes like bird and to the ducks he flies 912:00,158[C ]| And flutters there as goodly and as wise; 912:00,159[C ]| Sometimes when she would have him great appear 912:00,160[C ]| She does his form into a stallion rear, 912:00,161[C ]| Bridle in mouth she whisks him to the wall, 912:00,162[C ]| Astride she goes ~~ St Denis have at all! 912:00,163[C ]| Whips him o'er hedge and ditch, o'er dirt and mire, 912:00,164[C ]| Bramble and bog, through water and through fire, 912:00,165[C ]| Till ridden blind like Bayard in the mill 912:00,166[C ]| About he comes, about she brings him still, 912:00,167[C ]| The centre she, be circle where it will. 912:00,168[C ]| 'Twas in this figure prancing Saturn scorned 912:00,169[C ]| His first dear joys and holy Hymen spurned; 912:00,170[C ]| Thus Titan's host with rogues and ribalds filled 912:00,171[C ]| Olympus-ward, in wild presumption reeled. 912:00,172[C ]| A thing there was, a thing of wondrous growth, 912:00,173[C ]| All over indefatigable Mouth; 912:00,174[C ]| This monster of a mouth for drum supplied, 912:00,175[C ]| And trumpet and all din of war beside, 912:00,176[C ]| Hell not so black nor opened e'er so wide. 912:00,177[C ]| He, having the battalions squinted o'er, 912:00,178[C ]| These words did to the gaping rabble roar: 912:00,179[C ]| That Jove is bastard Saturn hath declared 912:00,180[C ]| (And who dare disbelieve his royal word, 912:00,181[C ]| For me I always counted him a turd). 912:00,182[C ]| Now against Titan you fanatics say 912:00,183[C ]| His altar stands the Babylonish way: 912:00,184[C ]| Howe'er it stands or does not stand at all, 912:00,185[C ]| We must with royal Titan stand or fall, 912:00,186[C ]| Nor may his mode of sacrificing scan. 912:00,187[C ]| Though he should sacrifice both God and man 912:00,188[C ]| We'll have him king, and kings may what they can. 912:00,189[C ]| Now his blue eyeballs turn, he makes a pause 912:00,190[C ]| And gathers round the hum and high applause 912:00,191[C ]| Which the grim scoundrels bellowed out amain, 912:00,192[C ]| Then tongue unsheathed thus brandishes again: 912:00,193[B ]| Brave brother giants, though against the law 912:00,194[B ]| And Heaven we fight, that sticks not in our maw. 912:00,195[B ]| When once we conquer, all the world's our own: 912:00,196[B ]| Rich land in country and fine house in town. 912:00,197[B ]| But should their goodly worships win the fight 912:00,198[B ]| And beat us, what the Devil get they by it? 912:00,199[B ]| Will those that loll in silks be mewed in straw 912:00,200[B ]| Or leave their roast meat to feed here on raw? 912:00,201[B ]| The strength is ours, the courage and the odds: 912:00,202[B ]| But conquer 'em and we shall be the gods. 912:00,203[' ]| With these last accents Mouth expecting stands 912:00,204[' ]| Till every giant claps his hundred hands. 912:00,205[' ]| The gods! The gods! all cry with horrid yell: 912:00,206[' ]| High heaven they shook and almost frighted Hell, 912:00,207[' ]| Whilst echoing rocks ~~ The gods! The gods! ~~ repel. 912:00,208[' ]| The gods! By Ossa bandied o'er the plain, 912:00,209[' ]| Olympus trembling tossed it back again; 912:00,210[' ]| The dungeons deep and caverns underground 912:00,211[' ]| With hoarser groans ~~ The gods! The gods! ~~ resound; 912:00,212[' ]| Shepherds aloof that viewed the grisly rout 912:00,213[' ]| Fainted and said the gods must go to pot. 912:00,214[' ]| Some peeping from their holes did see (or feared 912:00,215[' ]| They saw) to Heaven long scaling ladders reared; 912:00,216[' ]| Nimble as bears the ugly giants climb 912:00,217[' ]| And every god they meet tear limb from limb. 912:00,218[' ]| The skies all broken down, no age they spare, 912:00,219[' ]| From hobby-horse to the great one in the chair; 912:00,220[' ]| One thought he saw a graceless, great, unshod, 912:00,221[' ]| Unshapely, shabby giant eat a god; 912:00,222[' ]| Another spied a raw gigantic youth 912:00,223[' ]| Swearing with an immortal in his mouth 912:00,224[' ]| Which sprawled and sprawled but could not 'scape one tooth. 912:00,225[' ]| Another saw a huge Titanian whale 912:00,226[' ]| Swallow four gods, their shovel board and all. 912:00,227[' ]| One pities Heaven, and of strange havoc dreams: 912:00,228[' ]| How on the floor spilled aqua vitae swims, 912:00,229[' ]| With gay attire torn, tumbled and defaced, 912:00,230[' ]| There wig, there cravat, there embroidered vest, 912:00,231[' ]| The simple clowns thus fancied; but Heaven safe 912:00,232[' ]| Did at their care and rustic folly laugh; 912:00,233[' ]| Yet gaping priests gulped the tradition down 912:00,234[' ]| And all this creed to after-ages own. 912:00,235[' ]| But say not, ye profane, heaven had no share 912:00,236[' ]| In that day's toil, Heaven's champion Jove was there, 912:00,237[' ]| Heaven's darling Jove, and now immediate care. 912:00,000[' ]| 912:00,000[' ]| 912:00,238[' ]| The silly shepherds quake, the giants roar; 912:00,239[' ]| Saturn the while, his belly bottom tore, 912:00,240[' ]| And hose all stiff with dearest members' gore, 912:00,241[' ]| Slinking away Italy-ward alone, 912:00,242[' ]| To himself thus whined and whimpered out his moan: 912:00,243[A ]| Dear stones, adieu, cursed be the spiteful blow; 912:00,244[A ]| Be Titan cursed, cursed be Promethe too, 912:00,245[A ]| Insatiate bitch that made them hang so low! 912:00,246[A ]| What, though I swore Jove's death when yet unborn, 912:00,247[A ]| Is everybody gelded that's forsworne? 912:00,248[A ]| I swore, believe me, very very loathe 912:00,249[A ]| And never king more justly broke his oath. 912:00,250[A ]| Jove lives, my son, this the glad people know 912:00,251[A ]| And Jove perforce into my bosom throw; 912:00,252[A ]| Jove must be mine, whither I will or no. 912:00,253[A ]| Come forth from that (unworthy thee) abode, 912:00,254[A ]| Thou shalt be mine, Jove, thou art mine by God. 912:00,255[A ]| Come beard thy uncle, tread him in the mire, 912:00,256[A ]| Come thunder on him straight with sword and fire, 912:00,257[A ]| Ungiant him that has unmanned thy sire. 912:00,258[A ]| By giants haunted and by giants scared, 912:00,259[A ]| From human counsel, human sense debarred, 912:00,260[A ]| Like them a very Tory I appeared; 912:00,261[A ]| But now 'tis time after this dire mishap, 912:00,262[A ]| When cods are gone, for a considering cap: 912:00,263[A ]| Now could I think all day, when thinking's vain, 912:00,264[A ]| And think all night, and think and think again, 912:00,265[A ]| Whilst I by rogue abused, by whore misled, 912:00,266[A ]| How is the land with villainy o'erspread. 912:00,267[A ]| Astraea, lowly maid, thou fledst away 912:00,268[A ]| When treason thus did rise to affront the day. 912:00,269[A ]| Corruption fills the earth, a butcher's brood, 912:00,270[A ]| Rank, greasy fisted, the high benches load; 912:00,271[A ]| And worse than butchers, at the altar sit 912:00,272[A ]| Sometimes a goat, but man they rather spit 912:00,273[A ]| And offer up to heaven a human roast 912:00,274[A ]| As the most sweet delicious holocaust. 912:00,275[A ]| Their zeal is merciless, their litany 912:00,276[A ]| Is nothing else but curse and cruelty, 912:00,277[A ]| Their life a flail, their principle a rod, 912:00,278[A ]| So cruel as the devil were their god. 912:00,279[A ]| What joy, what pomp, what prodigal renown 912:00,280[A ]| Buzzed all around when first I wore the crown! 912:00,281[A ]| There milk, there nectar, there did honey spring, 912:00,282[A ]| All with one heart and voice: The king! The king! 912:00,283[A ]| King Saturn and Saturnian kingdoms sing! 912:00,284[A ]| Now from what height of glory do I fall, 912:00,285[A ]| From great to less, from less to none at all. 912:00,286[A ]| 'Twas Titan, thou didst first debauch my mind 912:00,287[A ]| (Thou to my body now so little kind), 912:00,288[A ]| Thou Hymen to profane the way didst show. 912:00,289[A ]| A giant I by thy example grew, 912:00,290[A ]| I against nature, against conscience strove, 912:00,291[A ]| Renounced the very womb that bore me Jove.