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Umaadelig fluttes hans Storlighed og, 

 Det vel af Forfarenhed viifes kand nok \ 



Thi de hannem komme i Mode 

 Fortselle, han ligger i Lsengden udftrakt, 

 Som hundrede Lses var paa Havet udlagt, 



Som Moding paa Ageren ode. 



Mig tykkes han lignes maa Behemots Magt 

 Samt og Leviathan, fom holder Foragt 



Al Vaaben og bevende Spidfe; 

 Thi Jernet er hannem fbm ftilker og Hor, 

 Og Raaber lorn Quiften der raadner og doer, 



Det Gud os befkriver til vifte. 



Which being tranilated literally runs thus : 



The great Sea- (hake's the fubje6r of my verfe j 

 For tho' my eyes have never yet beheld him, 

 Nor ever fhall defire the hideous fight ; 

 Yet many accounts of men of truth unftain'd, 

 Whofe ev'ry word I firmly do believe, 

 Shew it to be a very frightful monfter. 



When Julius enters in his princely ftate, 

 And Sol turns back in his aerial courfe, 

 Then does this hideous monfter firft appear. 

 It's faid that fuch is the pernicious nature 

 Of this dire Snake, that every boat he {qqs 9 

 He firft purfues, and then attempts to fink. 



Immenfe his fize, enormous is his bulk ; 

 Which by the experience, may be plainly Ihown, 

 Of thofe that have beheld this frightful monfter. 

 When on the fea he lies, ftretched at his length, 

 He feems a hundred loads 5 fo vaft his bulk ! 



Methinks he feems another Behemoth, 

 Or the Leviathan, who doth defpife 

 All arms, as fwords, and guns, and glittering fpears ( 

 For iron is to him like ftraw or flax, 

 And copper like the twigs that bend or break : 

 For thus he is defcrib'd in facred writ. 



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