And each, like Argus, had a hundred eyes,

Which direfully glared across the den of lies;

Their heads were horn’d, and each horn bore a lamp,

Mark’d with the great immortal Pluto’s stamp;

(Pluto[124] himself, being ninety leagues away,

Was unacquainted with this revelry—

Till Vulcan[125] forged a bolt with wings, and sent

It in a whirlwind unto Pluto’s tent;

Therein it stood and wrote upon the wall

The brief particulars of the carnival!