And powring forth their bloud in brutishe wize,

That any yron eyes[357] to see it would agrize.

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Vnder that cursed Idols altar stone[358]

An hideous monster doth in darknesse lie,

Whose dreadfull shape was neuer seene of none

That liues on earth; but vnto those alone

The which vnto him sacrificed bee.

Those he deuoures, they say, both flesh and bone:

What else they haue, is all the Tyrants fee;