'And as an ev'ning dragon came,
Assailant on the perched roosts
And nests in order rang'd
Of tame villatic fowl.'

Ib.1.1692


'Like that self - begotten bird
In the Arabian woods embost,
That no second knows nor third,
And lay erewhile a holocaust.'

Ib.1.1699

John Milton [1608 - 1674]