“No reptiles are found there [in Ireland], and no snake can live there; for, though often carried thither out of Britain, as soon as the ship comes near the shore, and the scent of the air reaches them, they die.Bede
“The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile, Stirr’d up with envy and revenge, deceiv’d The mother of mankind. John Milton
“For he seemed to me again like a king, Like a king in exile, uncrowned in the underworld, Now due to be crowned again. D. H. Lawrence