Three-headed and dog-snouted!—
Harpies are less obscene in touch than they:
The tigress robb'd of her first whelps, more merciful:
Asps, scorpions, vipers, amphisbenæ dire,
Cerastes, Ellops, Dipsas, all in one!—
But come, let's pass them in review before us,
And see how close the parallels will hold.
And first for Plangon: where in the scale place her?
E'en rank her with the beast whose breath is flame.
Like her she deals combustion round; and foreigners