... neck And sleep compelling: thick the poison drop That was his making, in no fang of snake More closely pressed. Greedy of warmth it seeks No frozen world itself, nor haunts the sands Beyond the Nile ; yet has our thirst of gain No shame nor limit, and this Libyan death, This fatal pest we purchase for our own. Haemorrhois huge spreads out his scaly coils, Who suffers not his hapless victims' ...