So spake the Enemie of Mankind, enclos'd / In Serpent, Inmate bad, and toward Eve / Address'd his way, not with indented wave, / Prone on the ground, as since, but on his reare, […]
1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, lines 494-497