In noontide sweats, or, like poor vassals, haste

To swell the vast dominion of the sea,

In whose great presence I am held disgraced,

And neighbor'd with a king that rivals me

In ancient might and hoary majesty."

LXIV.

"Whereas I ruled in Chaos, and still keep

The awful secrets of that ancient dearth,

Before the briny fountains of the deep

Brimm'd up the hollow cavities of earth;—