Joshua's Day seemed shorter than the same,
Shorter did seem the false Amphytrion's Night.
Harrington.
The same does Tasso, Canto iv of his Jierusamme:
There where Cileno's foul and loathsome Rout;
The Sphinges, Centaurs; there where Gorgon's fell,
There howling Scilla's, yawling round about:
There Serpents hiss, there seven mouth'd Hydra's yell,
Chimera there spues Fire and Brimstone out,
And Polyphemus blind suporteth Hell.
Fairfax.
All understood of the Hell, which is the Punishment of the Damned, according to the Christian Theology, and here confounded with the fabled Empire of Pluto. Spencer too mixes Scripture History with the Fable: Canto ix.
The Years of Nestor nothing were to his,
Ne yet Methusalem, tho' longest liv'd;
For he remembred both their Infancies.
Nay Milton himself adorns the Pandæmonium with Dorick Pillars, while Adam and Eve lived in the Bowers of Paradise before Man had a House to put his Head in:
————Pilasters round
Were set, and Dorick Pillars overlaid
With golden Architrave.
He also borrows the Rivers of the Hell of the Heathens for his Christian Poem: