Paradise Lost

What words does Satan use to describe his daughter in Paradise Lost, Book 2?

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Sin is described as a woman to the waist, and a serpent from the waist down, with hellhounds about her middle who bark and howl from within her womb. She literally sprang from Satan's head when he first conceived the idea of rebellion against God, and thus is the realization or personification of his "original" sin.

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Paradise Lost, Book 2