...rape begot These yelling Monsters that with ceaseless cry Surround me, as thou sawst, hourly conceiv'd And hourly born with sorrow infinite To me, for when...list into the womb That bred them they return, and howle and gnaw My Bowels, their repast. p. 254. LORD STAFFORD. Thomas Howard, Viscount Stafford was...

...begot These yelling monsters, that with ceaseless cry Surround me, as thou saw'st — hourly conceived And hourly born, with sorrow infinite To me: for,...gnaw My bowels, their repast; then, bursting forth Afresh, with conscious terrors vex me round, That rest or intermission none I find. Before mine eyes...

.... and swifter far, Me overtook . . . 2.800 . . . then, bursting forth Afresh, with conscious terror vex me round, That rest or intermission none I find....sits Grim Death, my son and foe, who sets them on ... Compare, again from the same episode treated in Nos LXIIr LXIV, and LXVI : "Brutus . . . suddenly...

...Oeath's progeny as These yelling Monsters with ceaseless cry Surround me, as thou saw'st hourly concelv'd And hourly born, with sorrow infinite To me, for when...bred them they return, and howl and gnaw My Bowels, thir repast . . . (ll.7g4-BOO) lt is the similarity of the monsters devouring the bowels and the "viperllke"...

...in a hideous cycle of painful procreation: "These yelling Monsters," Sin laments, hourly conceiv'd And hourly born, with sorrow infinite To me, for when...bred them they return, and howl and gnaw My Bowels, thir repast. [PL 2. 796-800] However, in her allusion to this Miltonic image, Wollstonecraft makes...

...not devour his other double, Sin; that too would be suicide, in this case, the end of Death itself, Before mine eyes in opposition sits Grim Death my Son and foe, who sets them on, And me his Parent would full soon devour For want of other prey, but that he knows His end with mine...

...beasts: These yelling monsters that with ceaseless cry Surround me, as thou sawest, hourly conceived And hourly born, with sorrow infinite To me, for when...return, and howl and gnaw My bowels, their repast. (n.795—800) In the sex life of hell, incest is piled on incest, and the theme of children as blessings,...

...mother. Death raped Sin and engendered the terrible hellhounds who, in Sin's words, are hourly conceived And hourly born, with sorrow infinite To me, for when...bred them they return, and howl and gnaw My Bowels. (2.796-800) If Satan does not invent heterosexual relations when he produces Sin out of his rebellious...

...kinship: These yelling Monsters that with ceasless cry Surround me, as thou saw'st, hourly conceiv'd And hourly born, with sorrow infinite To me, for when...bred them they return, and howl and gnaw My Bowels, thir repast; then bursting forth Afresh with conscious terrors vex me round, That rest or intermission...

...begot These yelling monsters that with ceaseless cry Surround me, as thou sawest, hourly conceived And hourly born, with sorrow infinite To me, for when...return, and howl and gnaw My bowels, their repast. (2.794-8oo) Sin mirrors the sinister maternity of Spenserian Error, whose suckling remains incapable...