And brought the heavie corse with easie pace

To yawning gulfe of deepe Avernus hole.[°]

By that same hole an entrance darke and bace

With smoake and sulphure hiding all the place,

Descends to hell: there creature never past,

That backe returned without heavenly grace;

But dreadfull Furies which their chaines have brast,

And damned sprights sent forth to make ill men aghast.

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