Paradise Lost
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In council sat, solicitous
what chance
Might intercept their emperour
sent; so he
Departing gave command, and
they observed.
As when the Tartar from his
Russian foe,
By Astracan, over the snowy
plains,
Retires; or Bactrin Sophi,
from the horns
X, 428-433