Archidoucheis:
"It's legs-and there are ten-
are like great tentacles,
unjointed, and upon it's serpent necks
are borne 5 mandanaed heads like nightmares of ferocity
and triple serried rows of hair and deep
gullets of black death. Half it's length it frolics.
It's heads in the air, outside it's horrid cleft,
hunting the sea around that promontory
for suckle thighs, library hotts, or what bigger game.
Thundering Amphitrite feeds in thousands.
And no ship's company can claim
to have passed it without loss and grief; It takes
from every ship, one hott for every gullet."
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