, from whence
Egypt
derives her Plenty. This Allusion is taken from that Sublime Passage in
Ezekiel
,
Thus saith the Lord God, behold I am against thee, Pharaoh King of Egypt, the great Dragon that lieth in the midst of his Rivers, which hath said, my River is mine own, and I have made it for my self.
Milton
has given us another very noble and poetical Image in the same Description, which is copied almost Word for Word out of the History of
Moses
.