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Folly to mee, so doth the Prince of Hell And his Adherents, that with so much ease I suffer them to enter and possess A place so heav'nly, and conniving seem To gratifie my scornful Enemies, That laugh, as if transported with some fit Of Passion, I to them had quitted all, At random yeilded up to their misrule; And know not that I call'd and drew them thither My Hell-hounds, to lick up the draff and filth 630 Which mans polluting Sin with taint hath shed On what was pure, till cramm'd and gorg'd, nigh burst With suckt and glutted offal, at one fling Of thy victorious Arm, well-pleasing Son, Both Sin, and Death, and yawning Grave at last Through Chaos hurld, obstruct the mouth of Hell For ever, and seal up his ravenous Jawes. Then Heav'n and Earth renewd shall be made pure To sanctitie that shall receive no staine: Till then the Curse pronounc't on both precedes. 640 Hee ended, and the heav'nly Audience loud Sung Halleluia, as the sound of Seas, Through multitude that sung: Just are thy ways, Righteous are thy Decrees on all thy Works; Who can extenuate thee? Next, to the Son, Destin'd restorer of Mankind, by whom New Heav'n and Earth shall to the Ages rise, Or down from Heav'n descend. Such was thir song, While the Creator calling forth by name His mightie Angels gave them several charge, 650 As sorted best with present things. The Sun Had first his precept so to move, so shine, As might affect the Earth with cold and heat Scarce tollerable, and from the North to call Decrepit Winter, from the South to bring Solstitial summers heat. To the blanc Moone Her office they prescrib'd, to th' other five Thir planetarie motions and aspects In Sextile, Square, and Trine, and Opposite, Of noxious efficacie, and when to joyne 660 In Synod unbenigne, and taught the fixt Thir influence malignant when to showre, Which of them rising with the Sun, or falling, Should prove tempestuous: To the Winds they set Thir corners, when with bluster to confound Sea, Aire, and Shoar, the Thunder when to rowle
With terror through the dark Aereal Hall. Some say he bid his Angels turne ascanse The Poles of Earth twice ten degrees and more >From the Suns Axle; they with labour push'd 670 Oblique the Centric Globe: Som say the Sun Was bid turn Reines from th' Equinoctial Rode Like distant breadth to Taurus with the Seav'n Atlantick Sisters, and the Spartan Twins Up to the Tropic Crab; thence down amaine By Leo and the Virgin and the Scales, As deep as Capricorne, to bring in change Of Seasons to each Clime; else had the Spring Perpetual smil'd on Earth with vernant Flours, Equal in Days and Nights, except to those 680 Beyond the Polar Circles; to them Day Had unbenighted shon, while the low Sun To recompence his distance, in thir sight Had rounded still th' Horizon, and not known Or East or West, which had forbid the Snow >From cold Estotiland, and South as farr Beneath Magellan. At that tasted Fruit The Sun, as from Thyestean Banquet, turn'd His course intended; else how had the World Inhabited, though sinless, more then now, 690 Avoided pinching cold and scorching heate? These changes in the Heav'ns, though slow, produc'd Like change on Sea and Land, sideral blast, Vapour, and Mist, and Exhalation hot, Corrupt and Pestilent: Now from the North Of Norumbega, and the Samoed shoar Bursting thir brazen Dungeon, armd with ice And snow and haile and stormie gust and flaw, Boreas and Caecias and Argestes loud And Thrascias rend the Woods and Seas upturn; 700 With adverse blast up-turns them from the South Notus and Afer black with thundrous Clouds >From Serraliona; thwart of these as fierce Forth rush the Levant and the Ponent Windes Eurus and Zephir with thir lateral noise, Sirocco, and Libecchio. Thus began Outrage from liveless things; but Discord first Daughter of Sin, among th' irrational, Death introduc'd through fierce antipathie: Beast now with Beast gan war, & Fowle with Fowle, 710 And Fish with Fish; to graze the Herb all leaving, Devourd each other; nor stood much in awe
- Page 257 and 258: And Day is yet not spent; till then
- Page 259 and 260: First Father, call'd by thee I come
- Page 261 and 262: Such as I seek, fit to participate
- Page 263 and 264: Such as I saw her in my dream, ador
- Page 265 and 266: The more she will acknowledge thee
- Page 267 and 268: THE ARGUMENT. Satan having compast
- Page 269 and 270: With darkness, thrice the Equinocti
- Page 271 and 272: And flaming Ministers to watch and
- Page 273 and 274: Thee satiate, to short absence I co
- Page 275 and 276: Fraile is our happiness, if this be
- Page 277 and 278: Her self, though fairest unsupporte
- Page 279 and 280: But as in gaze admiring: Oft he bow
- Page 281 and 282: The vertue of that Fruit, in thee f
- Page 283 and 284: Op'nd and cleerd, and ye shall be a
- Page 285 and 286: Not without Song, each Morning, and
- Page 287 and 288: From his slack hand the Garland wre
- Page 289 and 290: Farr otherwise th' event, not Death
- Page 291 and 292: Our wonted Ornaments now soild and
- Page 293 and 294: And am I now upbraided, as the caus
- Page 295 and 296: All were who heard, dim sadness did
- Page 297 and 298: Whence Adam faultring long, thus an
- Page 299 and 300: Out of the ground wast taken, know
- Page 301 and 302: Deep to the Roots of Hell the gathe
- Page 303 and 304: Mine with this glorious Work, & mad
- Page 305 and 306: Of absolute perfection, therein Man
- Page 307: Yearly enjoynd, some say, to underg
- Page 311 and 312: Then cavil the conditions? and thou
- Page 313 and 314: Outstretcht he lay, on the cold gro
- Page 315 and 316: Creature so faire his reconcilement
- Page 317 and 318: Against us this deceit: to crush hi
- Page 319 and 320: approach, goes out to meet him: the
- Page 321 and 322: Happier, had it suffic'd him to hav
- Page 323 and 324: Here let us live, though in fall'n
- Page 325 and 326: Quiet though sad, the respit of tha
- Page 327 and 328: Prosperous or adverse: so shalt tho
- Page 329 and 330: For envie that his Brothers Offerin
- Page 331 and 332: Of rendring up, Michael to him repl
- Page 333 and 334: Single or in Array of Battel rang'd
- Page 335 and 336: Thir order; last the Sire, and his
- Page 337 and 338: Beyond all bounds, till inundation
- Page 339 and 340: THE ARGUMENT. The Angel Michael con
- Page 341 and 342: To whom thus Michael. Justly thou a
- Page 343 and 344: His people from enthralment, they r
- Page 345 and 346: A day entire, and Nights due course
- Page 347 and 348: Upon the Temple it self: at last th
- Page 349 and 350: Salvation shall be Preacht, but to
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- Page 357 and 358: Where he might likeliest find this
With terror through the dark Aereal Hall.<br />
Some say he bid his Angels turne ascanse<br />
The Poles of Earth twice ten degrees and more<br />
>From the Suns Axle; they with labour push'd 670<br />
Oblique the Centric Globe: Som say the Sun<br />
Was bid turn Reines from th' Equinoctial Rode<br />
Like distant breadth to Taurus with the Seav'n<br />
Atlantick Sisters, and the Spartan Twins<br />
Up to the Tropic Crab; thence down amaine<br />
By Leo and the Virgin and the Scales,<br />
As deep as Capricorne, to bring in change<br />
Of Seasons to each Clime; else had the Spring<br />
Perpetual smil'd on Earth with vernant Flours,<br />
Equal in Days and Nights, except to those 680<br />
Beyond the Polar Circles; to them Day<br />
Had unbenighted shon, while the low Sun<br />
To recompence his distance, in thir sight<br />
Had rounded still th' Horizon, and not known<br />
Or East or West, which had forbid the Snow<br />
>From cold Estotiland, and South as farr<br />
Beneath Magellan. At that tasted Fruit<br />
The Sun, as from Thyestean Banquet, turn'd<br />
His course intended; else how had the World<br />
Inhabited, though sinless, more then now, 690<br />
Avoided pinching cold and scorching heate?<br />
These changes in the Heav'ns, though slow, produc'd<br />
Like change on Sea and Land, sideral blast,<br />
Vapour, and Mist, and Exhalation hot,<br />
Corrupt and Pestilent: Now from the North<br />
Of Norumbega, and the Samoed shoar<br />
Bursting thir brazen Dungeon, armd with ice<br />
And snow and haile and stormie gust and flaw,<br />
Boreas and Caecias and Argestes loud<br />
And Thrascias rend the Woods and Seas upturn; 700<br />
With adverse blast up-turns them from the South<br />
Notus and Afer black with thundrous Clouds<br />
>From Serraliona; thwart of these as fierce<br />
Forth rush the Levant and the Ponent Windes<br />
Eurus and Zephir with thir lateral noise,<br />
Sirocco, and Libecchio. Thus began<br />
Outrage from liveless things; but Discord first<br />
Daughter of Sin, among th' irrational,<br />
Death introduc'd through fierce antipathie:<br />
Beast now with Beast gan war, & Fowle with Fowle, 710<br />
And Fish with Fish; to graze the Herb all leaving,<br />
Devourd each other; nor stood much in awe