So did their ghastly gaze bewray their hidden feares.

Till hauing pauz’d awhile, Ioue thus bespake; xxix

Will neuer mortall thoughts ceasse to aspire,

In this bold sort, to Heauen claime to make,

And touch celestiall seates with earthly mire?

I would haue thought, that bold Procrustes[612] hire,

Or Typhons fall, or proud Ixions paine,

Or great Prometheus, tasting of our ire,

Would haue suffiz’d, the rest for to restraine;

And warn’d all men by their example to refraine: