...number of the Antichrist. Before the Gates there sat On either side a formidable shape; The one seemed Woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many...a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a Serpent armed With mortal sting: about her middle round A cry of Hell Hounds never ceasing barked With wide Cerberean1...

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...fabricates in the sense of "to lie." As an evolution of Horatian fabrication, Milton's Sin "seem'd Woman to the waist, and fair, / But ended foul in many a scaly fold" (PL 2.650-51), resembling Dagon, "upward Man / And downward Fish" ( i .462-63 ), or any of the other...

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...daughter, leaves no doubt about where the monstrosity of the 'Snakie Sorceress' lies: The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many...a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting: About her middle round A cry of Hell-hounds never-ceasing barked*6 Similarly, the...

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...Milton's Sin, even in her fallen and mutated form, is still attractive from the waist up: "The one seemed a woman to the waist, and fair,/ But ended foul in many a scaly fold" (11.651). Thus the Green Witch and Sin both have the power to seduce or to destroy. Though the Green...

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...with Death, on either side of the gates of hell, the scarecrow to crown all scarecrows: The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many...a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting: about her middle round A cry of hell hounds never ceasing barked With wide Cerberian...