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Which ailion pa fid over, the Poem haftes into the mid/l of things, prefenting Satan -with his Angels now fallen into hell, defcrib'd .here, not in the centre ( for heaven and earth may he juppos'd as yet not made, certainly not yet occurs'd ) but in a place of utter darknefs, fitliefl call'd Chaos: Here Satan with his Angels lying on the burning lake, tbunderfiruck and aftonijh'd, after a certainfpace recovers, cts from confufitm, calls up him who next in order Mni dignity lay by him : they confer of their inferable fall. Satan awakens all his legions, -who lay 'till then in the fame manner confounded: they rife-, their numbers, .array of battel, their chief leaders nam'd, according to the idols known afterwards in Canaan and tie countries adjoining. To thefe Satan direils his fpeech, comforts them with hope yet of regaining heaven, hut tells them hflly of a new world and new kind of creature ti be created, according to an ancient prophecy or report in heaven : for that Angels were long before this vifible creation, was the opinion of many ancient Fathers. To find out the truth of this prophecy, and what to determine Hereon, he tefers to a full council. What his aJJ'ociatcs whence attempt. Pandaemonium, the palace of Satan, rifes, Juddenly built out of the deep ; the infernal Peers #herefit in,council..■Jí.¿¿¡f £U< rv ¿¿toó*, fe ■erifái-w">S\ ^ ' ^ ;L „ „/} JL - / , , , . ) 'a5j £f ¿,¿>c<.'’ Át / Sy 7f(c vV ' e^q^cefL Jlvn Ji GT^fy'fy cuÁ*7ic/n du th v~rÏ jivic/ f' í< / kv~rt i o Sí ¡ d /~ (bLc C&~o íuC^d ‘»i C3 ¿/fát. ({^J^/ii fïYn ízil^Y#^*4 /{¿Ct+XUA. fl,t- JCii ^ ^¿/ cCy/fa-n ^i\ lì it U'vt ¿t ^ fie,/,'^ c^J/rasHúL, l/\(tU'y*¿4 ^. If Ji^jzjfúfálhc, C¿d^j Çffe, 7^) 'fçüfcü- J vue+3^jty /)n*-*'b ¡O djteú Jrlu ¿Me. M9yUk X$(^*àf«bé ‘rCj -;<*« <¿4a. ¿J*£í 9«¿ 9£~itU'.6uUUr*L '. 3 *3. 'f** kJ*jm e,ífó'‘f' "5 fÿt***- hr ^f cfí ^Y^ yAí J*í<*Íí M/r^Se.0 krm*i o,rtut. ¿/Q l> ^íá fiftiti&Z', % &f(ÁMíp(t ' f?<ZlA. i f'Z. ¿C- u> &..,Jadf* / - / Ox.'úL - Ç^ if-TT *H X- 71 tf; í 9to'L 1 '0-rrz ÁCs^cj 4/ï7f a -¿"n Tí*X-jZ^U^TV lc^ £}t> t frj Quyci) CfTt 1 &Jg¿[y ,i ¿rer u. c e-/ Cembri fío ?r> ^ hn- ¿CsLnrí.<¡Q&s~ocxjft* ¿í-f. C5. JiH* L nx^jw Æ j*4ceccA ‘/Scsn Ce /cc*tbfa'{77 oj /. j^j_ (LO-Y q-0.. U. &jj /(c6-*J-1 y\ We may with more fuccefsful hope refolvc To wage by force or gull* starnai war. t nYm ju> /jk____ /¿7, / Maw ¿ft) eri ‘hi*-te./. * f r L ? 7 Ou^T'n'i v-ii. CfYeM ' /Book I. 7 Book I. Paradise Lost. Irreconcileable to our grand foe ; Who now triumphs, and in th’ excefs of joy Sole reigning, holds¿he tyranny of heav’n. 'So Ipake th’Vpoftate An|ei', though in pain j _ Vaunting aloud, but rack’d with deep delpair ; £ And him thus anfwer’d foon his bold compeer. K" / ¿7 / -f o-y i*5 O Prince! O chief of many throned Powers, That led th’ imbattell’d Seraphim to war Under thy conduit! and in dreadful deeds Fearlefs, endanger’d heav’n’s perpetual King, And put to proof his high fupremacy ; Whether upheld by ftrength, or chance, or fate, Too well I fee and rue the dire event, That with fad overthrow and foul defeat Hath loft us heav’n, and all this mighty hoft In horrible deftruition laid thus low, As far as Gods and heav’nly eflences Can perifh : For the mind and ipirit remains Invincible, and vigor foon returns, Though all our glory extinct, and happy ftate Here fwallow’d up in endlefs mifery. But what if he our conqu’ror ( whom I now Of force believe Almighty, fince no lefs Than fuch could have o’er-power’d fuch force as ours ) Have left us this our ipirit and ftrength entire, Strongly to fufler and fupport our pains ? That we may fo fufhce his vengeful ire, Or do him mightier fervice, as his thralls * By right of war, whate’er his hufinefs be, Here in the heart of hell to work in fire, Or do his errands in the gloomy deep : What can it then avail, though yet we feel Strength uadiminifh’d, or eternal being »3» ns 140 145 J50 ■/'^' t■ JrMerr* /idtruLe , A an w j i- f'd/f.— fj jlj VspdL% By ancient Tarsus held ; or that fea-beaft ‘ 200 Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugeft that fwim th’ ocean ftream : (Him haply flumb’ring on the Norway foam, The pilot of fome fmall night-founder’d fluff, Deeming fome ifland, oft, as fea-men tell, - 205 With fixed anchor in his fcaly rind, J h «, if, j, Moors by his fide under the Lee, while night Inveils the fea, and wiihed morn delays.) So ftretch’d out huge in length the Arch-fiend lay, Chain’d on the burning lake 5 nor ever thence 210 Had ris’n, or heav’d his head, but that the will And high permiffion of all-ruling heaven, Left him at large to his own dark defigns j That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himfelf damnation, while he fought IIS Evil to others ; and enrag’d might fee How all his malice ferv’d but to bring forth Infinite goodnefs, grace and mercy fhewn On man by him feduc’d ; but on himfelf Treble confufion, wrath and vengeance pour’d, 229 Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty llature ; on each hand the flames Driv’edir:*,. If/trme *tfr?/'/^j I fb. 'Use r-/c Qcm> <_<_//) /«- /¿k //;-e». /fcj ---¿1 3: fA^-/Ac* uJLVvLf*4 j k&. j/U /£&*_' A Tdf/k^ ^/rJj.-i_ ' ** " v-fe-i \ ML Iff). fflL. I «¿'’ 3.7. '/V «• f > ^ of. -V. A? /.-, (LwririAbt s h1 / j dv>hr*. 3. •fdfiuhy. io Paradise Lost. Book I. Driv’n backward Hope their pointing fpires, and rowl’d In billows, leave i’th' midft a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he fleers his flight 225 Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unufual weight; till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever burn’d With folid, as the lake with liquid fire : And fuch appear’d in hue, as when the force 430 Of fubterranean wind tranfports a hill Torn from Peloros, or the fhatter’d fide Of thund’ring /Etna, whofe pombuftible And fuel’d entrails thence conceiving fire, Sublim’d with mineral fury, aid the winds, 235 And leave a finged bottom all involv’d With flench and fmoke : fuch refting found the foie Of unblefs’d feet! Him follow’d his next mate, Both glorying to have ’fcap’d the Stygian flood, As Gods, and by their own recover’d ffrength, 240 Not by the fuff’ranee of fupernal pow’r Is this the region, this the foil, the clime, Said then the loft Arch-Angel, this the feat That we muft change for heav’n? this mournful gloom For that cosleftial Light ? be it fo, fince he 245 Who now is Sov’reign can difpofe and bid What fkall be right: fartheft from him is beft, Whom reafon hath equall’d, force hath made fupreme Above his equals. Farewell happy fields, Where joy for ever dwells! hail horrors! hail 250 Infernal world! and thou profoundeft hell Receive thy new pofieffor ! one whe brings A mind not to be chang’d by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in it itfelf Can make a heav’n of hell, a hell of heav’n. 255 What matter where, if I be ftill the fame,. AndII A Book I. Paradise Lost. And what I ihould be, all but lefs than he Whom thunder hath made greater ? here at lead: We ihall be free ; th’ Almighty hath not built Here for his envy j will not drive us hence : Here we may reign fecure j and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, tho’ in hell : Better to reign in hell, than ferve inheav’n. But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, Th’ affociates and copartners of our lofs Lye thus aftonilh’d on th’ oblivious pool, And call them not to ihare with us their part In this unhappy manlion $ or once more With rallied arms to try, what may be yet Regain’d in heav’n, or what more loft in hell ? 260 265 27© So Satan fpake, and him Beelzebub Thus anfwer’d : Leader of thofe armies bright, Which butth’ Omnipotent none could have foil’d ! 3. If once they hear that voice, their livelieil pledge - ? Of hope in fears .and dangers* heard fo oft 2y j In worft extremes, and on the perilous edge 6- }0‘" . Of battel when it rag’d, in all allimlts Their fur eft fighal, they will foon refume A J, New courage, and revive, tho’ now they lye Grov’ling and proftrate on yon lake of lire, As we ere while, aftounded and amaz’d ; No wonder, fell’n fuch a pernicious height, h*jl 280 3. He fcarce had ceas’d, when the fuperior fiend Was moving tow’rd the ihore j his pond’rous lhield, Ethereal temper, mafiie, large and round, Behind him call ; the broad circumference I'SetintlJ. Hung on his fhoulders likejthe Moon, whofe orb Thro’ optic glafs the Tuscan artift views Ko;4. At ev’ning, from the top of Fesole, Lt-2Ss Oris Paradise Lost. Book I. L/c su / <: A \ £fc a r A h 'chib TO /¡-usehhyh. $, fL-y a U‘y'i. 3. ftm /V, \frt-A jh Or in Valdarno, to deflry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her fpotty globe. His fpear, to equal which the talleft pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the malt. Of fome great Ammiral, were but a wand, He walk’d with to fupport unealie fteps Over the burning marie ( not like thofe fteps On heaven’s azure ! ) and the torrid clime Smote on him fore beiides, vaulted with fire. Nathleflhe fo indur’d, ’till on the beach Of ' hat inflamed fea, he flood and call’d His legions, Angel-forms, who lay entrans’d, Thick as autumnal leaves that ftrow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th’ Etrurian {hades High over-arch’d embow’r j or flatter’d fedge Afloat, when with fierce winds O RI o N arm’d Hath vex d the Red-Sea coaft, whofe waves o’erthrew EuslR1 sand his Memphian chivalry. While with perfidious hatred they perfu’d* The fojourners of Goshen, who beheld From the fafe {hoar their floating carcafes, And broken chariot wheels: fo thick beftrown, Abjebt and loft lay thefe, covering the flood, Under amazement of their hideous change. He call’d fo loud, that all the hollow deep Of hell refounded : Princes, Potentates, Warriors, the flow’r of heav’n ! once yours, now loft, If fuch aftoniihment as this can flize Eternal fpirits ; or have ye chos’n this place After the toil of battel to repofl 1Your wearied virtue, for the eafe you find To flumber here, as in the vales of heav’n ? Or in this abjeft pofture have ye fworn T’ adore the conqueror ? who now beholds Cherub and Seraph rowling in the flood, 'fUft-i. We,-?- 29* 29$ 3QC- 305 310 3*5 320 \/o a /n't, 7, With33y /ÇÙa.) jïï ù-^L w*“) tri/>fÍc.Á.¿^t fitft' i ' ' Q /?£ / u-üu! l¿> m iftti ia^tlrn ourla (hét-^c^v, -if ¿/t) %êÀ &/ &*i ftsXÿfl h iie~. Í* t±tô. /> g +/ /y j C... i ¡K-nc¿~f %¡. 3. fi. j h 35- c\ti' tys-iP fCd_ /(q Ace ri/ er/fcUj i, ?/rc i/ t.y t fBook I. Paradise Lost. With flatter'd arms and enfigns, ’till anon His fwift purfuers from heav’n-gates difcern tA’" advantage, and defending tread os down Thus drooping; or with linked thunderbolts Transfix us to the bottom of this gulf. Awake, arife, or be for ever fall’n. they heard, and were abafh’d, and up they fprung Upon the wing ; as when men wont to watch On duty, ileeping found by whom they dread, Rouze and beftir themfelves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel j •Yet tO-their General’s voice they foon obey’d, Innumerable! As when the potent Rod / Of Amram’s Son, in ¿Egypt’s evil day, Wav’d round the coaft, up call’d a pitchy cloud Of locufts, warping on the eaftern wind, That o er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like night, and darken’d all the land of Nile : So numberlefs were thofe bad Angels feen Hov’rmg on wing under the cope of hell, ’Twixtupper, nether, and furrounding fires: ’Till, as a fignal giv’n, th’ up-lifted fpear. Of their great Sultan waving to direct i V, ^ Their courie, in even ballance down they light On the firm brimftone, and fill all the plain; A multitude ! like which the populous north Pour’d never from her frozen loins, to pafs RHENEorthe Danaw, when her barbarous fons Came like a deluge on the fouth, and fpread Beneath Gibralter to the Libyan fands. Forthwith from ev’ry i^uadron, and each band, The Heads and Leaders thither hafte, where flood Their great Commander ; God-like lhapes and forms c Excelling7uv. 3, 33^ /0C; by, L //i & Sew Ck i '%^r/ ,-nj -7i6 A i.*./' t/*-7’ijf.-c,t-'fc*--y^. jjf_iß./?h '•' cy/AJlW tifarci /^ (../%** 1 L ÿ.y/.:./. L jhik’ning his Maker to the grazed ox, . ; jh Jehovah! who in one night when he pafs’d From jEgypt marching, equal’d with oneftroke Bath her firft-born and all her bleating Gods. Belial came laft, than whom a^ fpirit more lewd Fell not from heaven, or more grofs to love Vice for it felf: to him no temple flood, L-y Or altar fmok’d yet who more oft than he’ /WO A. r£i- 3, In temples and at.altars, whemthe prieft Turns atbeift, as did Ely’s fons, who fill’d With luft and; violence thehoule of God ? Ini courts and palaces he alfo reigns, c 3' And! tmiJ 475 4S0 490 !♦* ti // £./<£ ,y/*Jl^r/ £_fa A* /™. Awaiting what eomrpand their mighty Chief Had to impofe : he thro’ the armed files Darts his experienc’d eye, and foon traverfe The whole battalion views their order due j Their vifages and ftature as of Gods; Their number laft he fums. And now his heart Diftends with pride, and hard’ning in his ftrength Glories : for never fince created man Met fuch imbodied force, as nam’d with thefe r%fi hz.fa. Could merit more than that fmall infantry » Warr’d on by cranes ; tho’ all the giant brood: Of Phlegra with th’ Heroic race were join'd,. That fought atTHEBES and Ilium, on each fide Mix’d withauxiliar Gods : and what refounds In fable or Romance of UTHER’s,fony Begirt with British and Armoric Knights ; And all who fsnce, baptiz’d or infidel, Joufted in Aspr am,on.t or Montalban, Damasco, orMARocco, otTrebisond^ Or whom Biser t a feat from Afric ihoar, When Chari.em.sif with all his peerage fell By Fomtaraebia. Thus far thefe beyond Compare of mortal prowefs, yet ob&rv’d. Their dread commander : he, above the-reft la fhape and geftur.e proudly eminent, Stood like a tow’r: his form had yet not loft' All her original brightnefs,, nor appear’d. Lefs than Arch-angel ruin’d, and th’ excefs tht. ¿¿Itfj. “3, Of glory obfcur’d : as when the fun new-ris’n kooks thro’ the horizontal mifty air-, Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eci.jjfe, difaftrous twilight fheds On half the nations, and with fear of change-Perplexes monarchs ; darken’d fo, yet ilione Above them all th’ Arch-angel: buthis face. 6oa DeepK fo'f-!^Utr.fthe- ¿hho-n/ ili Ppe/ Pc IflC/PrA 1ifL tl/í¿ p7'zze f ¿z-é/' f pii/ i C* !u foie-, ¿i OrszYps? ffr*< f Í eist>n ì*i ‘trxiÉ'/i?* ùt/tUc'i a. ìzaz7c^ ’ P.J~jt-zr'ÌC'f dLtfzi/ ccf9ì fjfajifri/cteK vzzyTzi/ ù Sic !h - 2 - 4^‘ l* [m-se- Á-fá ffÀv/^a. r/ ¿n /Ce cAécyaLyfcr ’c fa/lfìoi tipibvett r ! Of / 1 // Kjhd&ni'. _____ JPí'--¡/u/- ■■ Ux^( &_ j/w/, (‘7e(‘tvft' ~*

/f'cy it/tBook I. Paradise Lost, Deep fears of thunder had intrench’d, and care Sate on his faded check, but under brows \ , Of dauntlefs courage, and confid’rate pride /< ' Waiting revenge : cruel his eye, but cail Signs of remorfe and paflion to behold The fellows of his crime, the followers rather, (Far other once beheld in blifs! ) condemn’d For ever now to have their lot in pain ; CC Millions of fpirits for his fault amerc’d Of heav’n, and from eternal fplendors flung For his revolt, yet faithful how they Hood, Their glory wither’d : as when heaven’s fire Hath fcath’d the foreft oaks, or mountain pines, With finged top their ftately- growth, tho’ bare Stands on the Mailed heath. He now prepar’d To fpeak, whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half inclofe him round With all his peers: attention held them mute s Thrice he affay’d, and thrice infpight of fcorn, Tears, fuch as angels weep, burft forth ; at laft Words interwove with fighs found out their way. / / — y, '*/ tfadi&n/ It. t faj* 1&-+1 {/ j/frr*Ur>J£} & Wa O^-cHjHx) 'll¿L*r*JVf^r>//*e^3 I IdM fr#-m. fvi mejL’3, . '0-rt4 , <<’ i /h \) u / ¿/ tff- If 1 Ufr/fa *~n6uf AS l&* ¡Lsl Ly^*+-*J.¿/ f&/° faafy&rdvu rye^* ¿£J A — a/t< ■a fue.1 ‘¡juS t. $%. ‘bdJfrQ: U, h .?>Lt> frt CffdlL 4 2, 4%J- lv-U&tW&Msl/ty nC^J Juft. &- J /fao u. ^ et/clJ/i. Jyüjfo&rij <}Pta-reJCe -. busu\H rnx-en.^------/ 1 W ------- V'JT rC 3h*-(yeAHVaj JzrHwuc L «ïïwlfjj- fn IL Lie- (k atn^i^Ar^/ */CC^/ouh^k CJJj Jew £<ï*P7f ifUXdL iaiHi i&Jjb**ii Cià&èij irfewA^ ¿t [ft Cytjjfiht Ctt>eK.cJè J? ¡jä-i'ConOf ùJai/èÿ ¿s-rcei/J: tfui fixLk Oh a iXfoY/n J ioT-f J¡- J t'- %. CL ¡p'fUÀjk tw. $ flrcti c> z/j jß(tf/0 Cf4.f in,/' (*Jn!h> ij&o^r /Y'Jci Ynej yu-ron ònc, írx 'TQu/J/iS I¿.e» Book I. Paradise Lost. 23 Hurling defiance toward the vault of heav’n. There flood a hill not far, whofe grifly top£r--4ir> , J Forerun the royal camp, to trench a field, _ Or caft a rampart: Mammon led them on, Mammon, the leaft eredted fpirit that fell From heav’n ; for ev’n in heav’n his looks and thoughts 63o Were always downward bent; admiring more f) The riches of heav’n’s pavement, trodden gold, « >./■ - Than ought divine or holy elfe, enjoy’d In vifion beatific : by him firft . Men alfo, and by his fuggeftion taught, 685 Ranfack’d the centre, and" with impious hands For treafures better hid. Soon had his crew Open’d into the hill a fpacious wound, And dig’d out ribs of gold. ( Let none admire 69© That riches grow in hell ; that foil may beft , Deferve the precious bane.) And here let thofe * Whoboaftin mortal things, and wond’ring tell Of Bab Et, and the works of Memphian Kings, Learn how their greateft monuments of fame, 695 And ftrength and art are eafily-out-done By fpirits reprobate, and in an hour What in an age they with inceflant toOj fa . And hands innumerable, fcarce perform. Nigh on the plain in many cells prepar’d, That underneath had veins of liquid fire Sluc’d from the lake, a fécond multitude With f //* /? /-/ -re, »», 1 J * '/i\ tie'/ è <*A-t ,f' ¡fu i '¿cL-rfr A.A p .n /& /Ae^ffe. (*+*}/„¿if? V *—-o ✓ * J / 7 ./ wjkz*. flk^f L fnt \fe*lanfo r k'C&kh fh< fCK l A/(../ QieK'h hf/* ■¿A# e.rn p 24 Paradise Lost. Book I. With wondrous art found out t'he mafiy ore ; Severing each kind, and fcumm’d the bullion drofs : A third as foon had form’d within the ground A various mold ; and from the boiling cells By ftrange conveyance fill’d each hollow nook; As in an organ from one blaft of wind To many a row of pipes the found-board breaths. Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rofe like an exhalation, with the found Ofdulcet fymphonies, and voices fweet; Built like a temple, where pilafters round Were fet, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave : nor did there want Cornice or freeze, with bofiy fculptures grav’n ; The roof was fretted gold. Not Babylon, Nor great Alca i-ro fuch magnificence Bquail’d in all their glories, to inlhrine Belvs, orSERAPis their Gods ; or feat Their kings, when ¿Egypt with Assyria drove In wealth and luxury. Th’ afcending-pile f~\ Stood fixt her ftately height, and ftrait the doors (/»fO.I Gp ning their brazen folds, difcover wide Within(her ample fpaces, o’er the fmooth And level pavement: from the arched roof, Pendent by fubtle magic, many a row Of ftarry lamps and blazing crefiets, fed With Naphtha and Afphaltus, yielded light As from a Iky. The hafly multitude Admiring enter’d, and the work fome praife, And fome the architedt : his hand was known In heav’n by many a towred ftrudlure high, Where fceptred angels held their refidence, And fate as princes ; whom the fupreme King Exalted to fuch pow’r, and gave to rule, .Each in his’ihierarchy, the Orders bright. 710 T^v/ ce-r íc, ¿C r /C^*-s* tc/ Ol *1 Cf '-t'c r-y ' 14* a.ÇC fù-Jgjhe¿iy>/•/£«»4^*//’ ít-n. 1k í{ iLtypufr ¿ffa<*f. Jwh e/fcrù Æ êt*{M àf<& '/£.<&) Í/Ol. /f **7Z/wa Book ï. Paradise Lost. 2£ Nor was his name unheard, or unador’d, In ancient Greece ; and in Aosonian land Mencall’d himMuLCiBER ; andhowhefell 740 From heav’njthey fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o’er the chryftal battlements ; from morn To noon he fell, from soon to dewy eve, A fummer’s day ; and with the fetting fun Dropt from the Zenith like a falling ftar, 74J OnL emnos th’ Ægean iile : thus they relate, Erring; for he with this rèbell ious rout Û/ Fell long before ; nor ought avail'd him now hM-fj ZL . T’ have built in heav’n high tow’rs ; nor did he fcape *jQ $ By all his engins, but was headlong lent 750 With his induftrious crew to build in hell. Mean while the winged heralds by command Of fov’reign pow’r, with awful ceremony 7(Kyi- 3. And trumpets found, throughout the hoft proclaim , A folemn council forthwith to be held Ctf tJ 755 At Pandæmonium, the high capital Of Sa ta n and his peers : their fummons call’d, From every band and fquared regiment, By place or choice the worthieii ; they anon With hundreds and with thoufands trooping came 760 Attended : all accefs was throng’d, the gates And porches wide, but chief the fpacious hall ( Though like a cover d field, where champions bold Wont ride in arm’d, and at the Sol dan’s chair Defi’d the beft of Pani m chivalry jg- To mortal combat, or carriere with lance ) ieuTftt Y. 3 Thick fwarm d, both on the ground, and in the air, Brutti’d with the hifs of rutting wings. As bees In fpring time, when the fun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive 77„ In clutters ; they among frefh dews, and flow’rs D FI? sa*- c /o o y Yÿf et/JecuL. 4f. 9ù /C 'r/ti 'i / Ÿ ^ / y /.tYfiiYl u./ YfYfri/À sui*) 7" 'Ìì.'Cto. /tu' ct 't> Y «Yr • //.éZé, (X f tà. fty € 1 - ___ c ' i-r'f ÿ/7u/Y#jfJ& .Book I. FJy to and fro, or on the fmoothed plank, (The fuburb of their ftraw-built cittadel,) New rubb’d with baulm, expatiate, and confer Their Hate affairs: So thick the aery crowd Swarm’d and were ftraiten’d, till the fignal giv’n í Behold a wonder ! they but now who feem’d In bignefs to furpafs Earth’s Giant fons, Now lefs than fmalleft dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberlefs, like that Pygmean race I Beyond the Indian mount; or Fairy Elves, Whofe midnight revels, by a foreft fide, Or fountain, fome belated peafant fees, Or dreams he fees, while over-head the moon Sits arbitrefs, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale courfe ; they on their mirth and dance Intent,~tvTth jocund mufic charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. Thus incorporeal fpirits to fmalleft forms Reduc’d their fiiapes immenfe, and were at large, Though without number ftill, amidft the hall Of that infernal court. But far within, And in their own dimenfions like themfelves, The great Seraphic Lords and Cherubim, •In clofe recefs and fecret conclave fat ; A thoufand Demi-Gods on golden feats, Frequent and full 1 after ihort filence then And fummons read, the great confult began. The end of the firji Book. THETHE SECOND BOOK. O F PARADISE LOSTThe ARGUMENT. confultation begun, Satan debates whether another battle be to be hazarded for the recovery of heaven ; Jome advife it, others dijfuade. A third propofal is prefer'd, mentioned before by Satan, to fearch the truth of that prophecy or tradition in •heaven concerning another world, and another hind of creature, equal, or not much inferior to tbemfelves, about this time to t created: their doubt who Jball be fent on this difficult fearch : Satan their chief undertakes alone the voyage, is honor'd and applauded. The council thus ended, the rcjl betake them ¡eve-rai ways, and to feveral employments, as their inclinations lead them, to entertain the time ’ft//Satan return. He pajfes on kis journey to hell gates, finds them/hut, and who fat there to guard them, by whom at length they are open'd, and difco-Ver Id hh» the great gulf between hell and heaven : with •what difficulty he pajfes through, dirthied by Chaos, the P ewer of that place, to the fight of this new world which he fought. 3 - ^ Cr i?_y 'é7 2. '*& £ û- /fye* *4.f ^ • » ft' vr — jnr\ , - ,LlJ/£nnM Ort, 5. That in our proper motion we afcend. 75- Up to our native feat delcent and fall Tous is adverfe. Who but felt of late When the fierce foe hung on our broken rere TfetK Iniulting, andperfu’dus through the deep, With what compulfion and laborious flight 80 We funk thus low ? th’afcent is eafie then,; ¡¿j H &Ji( % TTV event is fear’d ; Ihould we again provoke Our ftronger, fomeworfe way his wrath may find To our deftruftion : if there be in hell Fear to be worfe deftroy’d : what can Be worfe 85 Than to dwell here, driv’n out from bill's, condemn'd in this abhorred deep to utter woe 5, WhereBook II, n Where pain of inextin guifliable fire j?/* ng/fg.ltiark?- t^^C£J''J*-Muilexercife us without hope of end, The vaflals of his anger, when the fcourge ' - p Inexorable and the torturing ho ur i. i£fof ^^Calis usXo penance ? more deftroy’d than thus, We ihould be quite aboliih’d and expire. What fear we then ? what doubt we to incenfe His utmoft ire ? which to the height enrag’d, Will either quite confume us, and reduce To nothing this eflential $ happier far, Than miferable to have eternal being. Or if our fubftance be indeed divine, And cannot ceafe to be, we are at word On this fide nothing 5 and by proof we feel Our pow’r fufficient to difturb his heav’n, And with perpetual inrodes to alarm, Though inaccefiible, his fatal throne : Which, if not victory, is yet revenge. He ended frowning, and his look denounc’d Defperate revenge, and battel dangerous To lefs than Gods. On th’ other fide up rofe Belial, in adl more graceful and humane ; A fairer perfon loft not heav’n ; he ieem’d For dignity compos’d and high exploit: But all wasfalfe and hollow ; though his tongue Drop’d Manna, and could make the worfe appear The better reafon, to perplex and daih Matured: ccunfels: for his thoughts were low : To vice Induftrious, but to nobler deeds Tim’rous and flothful : yet he pleas’d the ear, And with perfuafive accent thus began. I ihould be much for open war, O Peers \ As not behind in hate, if what was urg’d \&fü* «à l£//a/&. &y<* . /jjun tlY'Ute/ QytûJua r: s- *// t4¿) yyioLJ^fo*-' Ve^i/QJC <ÿ ü¿ jf *s/Çù* frUrà °, <&/*- ¿wfyy P fifî/Z/Crr. faJXj*j-Y£_J' 4r*C*). y/C. £/ i> i / ,/y y '*+'> /£ SSS7«~ r r ____ _. , (/(\ 6.r> T1 '?**-<, n, pr/j/fw. r*et). J¡, y 2y ¿\y <#7 y 3¿> c¡C%/>. U y (W"< aft^n *. 0¿V f, J[f //JM '?ny (, '&/*. //o 2Xò /tJr'e*. Sà<}.<■«-r,/g //eg-¿l/j Book. II. Belike through impotence, or unaware, To give his enemies their wilh, and end Them in his anger, whom his anger laves To punilh endlefs ? Wherefore ceafe we then, o£ iet-V'. j Say they who counfel war ?---We are decreed, n Referv’d, and deftin’d to eternal woe ; Whatever doing, what can we fufter more, ft Y\J \0 What can we fufter worfe ?— Is this then worft. Thus fitting, thus confulting, thus in arms ? What ! when we fled amain, perfu’d and ftruck With heav’n’s afflifting thunder, and befought The deep to Ihelter us ? this hell then feem’d A refuge from thofe wounds. Or when we lay Chain’d on the burning lake ? that fure was worfe. What if the breath that kindl’d thofe grim fires, Awak’d Ihould blow them into fevenfold rage, And plunge us in the flames ? or from above Should intermitted vengeance arm again His red right hand to plague us ? what if all Her ftores were open’d, and this firmament Of hell Ihould fpout her catarails of fire, Irapendeos horrors! threatning hideous fall One day upon our heads ; while we, perhaps Befigning or exhorting glorious war, Caught in a fiery tempeft ihall be hurl’d Each on his rock transfix’d, the fport and prey Of racking whirlwinds; or for ever funk Under yon boiling ocean, wrapt in chains j There to converfe with everlafting groans, Unrefpited, unpitied, unrepriev’d, cvy? 3. 185 Ages of-hopelefs end ? this would be worfe.' War therefore, open of conceal’d, alike My voice difluades ; for what can force or guile With him, or who deceive his mind, whofe eye Views all things at one view ! He from heav’n’s height 190 ’ Ail nicjkf^r%.Book II. Paradise Lost All thefe our motions vain fees and derides ; Not more^mighty to refill: our might, Than wife to fruftrate all our plots and wiles. * | Shall we then live thus vile, the race of heav’n 0 V\ * ClV Thus tramDpd. thus exDcll’d, to fuffer here iqc Thus trampl’d, thus expell’d, to fuffer here * 195 Chains and thefe torments ? better thefe than worfe, By my advice j fince fate inevitable Subdues us, and omnipotent decree, 1. The viftor’s will. To fuffer, as to do, J fii U-O'''« • Our ftrength is equal, nor the law unjufV That fo ordains : This was at firft refolv’d If we were wife, againft fo great a foe Contending, and fo doubtful what might fall. I laugh, when thofe who at the lpear are bold And vent’rous, if that fail them, fhrink and fear What yet they know mull: follow, to endure Exile, or ignominy, or bonds, or pain, The fentence of their conqu’ror : this is now n Our doom ; which if we can fuftain and bear, f* Our fupreme foe, in time may much remit His anger, and perhaps thus far remov’d Not mind us not offending, fatisfy’d With what is punifh’d : whence thefe raging fires ^ ty~vySiQfy' Will flacken, if his breath ftirnot their flames. ^ Our purer effence then will overcome 215 Their noxious vapor ; or enur’d, not feel ; "#»*/? . Or chang’d at length, and to the place conform’d In temper and in nature, will receive Familiar the fierce heat, and void of pain 5 This horror will grow mild, this darknefs, light : 220 Befides what hope the never-ending flight % . e, what thange Of future days may bring, what chance Worth waiting, fince our prefent lot appears qP't&C-yV- " • ' 7/ For happy, though but ill ; forili, not word If we procure not to our felves more woe.§6 Paradise Lost. Book IL r Thus Belial with words cloath’d in reafon’s garb Counfel’d ignoble eafe, and peaceful floth, Not peace.t and after him thus Mammon fpake. ' é ^ Jl^nl-UwAMa til A li" 1TÌCT rtf V B l o iickle tjhance, and vjh a os judge me «rue : The former, vain^to hope, argues as vain The latter T for what place can be for us 2 3 5 Within heav’n’s bound, unlefs heav’n’s Lord fupreme We over-power ? fuppofe he ihould relent And publifh grace to all, on promife made Of new fubjeition : with what eyes could we Stand in his prefeijye humble, and receive 24° Strift laws impos’d, to celebrate his throne With warbled hymns, and to his Godhead fing Forc’d Hallelujahs ; while he lordly fits '¡OUf0ln‘ Our envy’d Sov’reign, and his altar breathes Ambrofial odors, and ambrofial flowers, Our fervile offerings. This mull be our task In heav’n, this our delight ; how wearifome Eternity fo fpent in worihip paid To whom we hate ! let us not then perfue By force impoflible, by leave obtain’d Unacceptable, tho in heav’n, ourftate Offplendid vaflalage $ but rather feek Our own good from ourfelves, and from our own Live to our felves, though in this vaft recefs, Free, and to none accountable, preferring Hard liberty before the eafie yoke 245 Ì i 250 25s Ufeful 1Book II. Paradise Lost Ufeful of hurtful, profperous of adverfe We can create ; and in what place fo e’er Thrive under evil, and work eafe out of pain, n - J_____ Through labor and indurance. This deep world v® Of darknefs do we dread } how oft amidft Thick clouds and dark doth heav’n’s all-ruling Sire Chufe to relide, his glory unobfcur’d ? (ftpojx. . L And with the majefty of darknefs round Covers his throne ; from whence deep thunders roar Muft’ring their rage, and heav’n refembles hell ? As he our darknefs, cannot we his light Imitate when we pleafe ? this defart foil Li. ¡S. Wants not her hidden luftre, gems and gold ; u £ Nor want we /kill or art, from whence to raife Magnificence ; and what can heav’n fhew more ? Our torments alfo may in length of time Become our elements ; thefe piercing fires MrruJ As foft as now fevere, our temper chang’d t Into their temper ; which muif needs remove The fenfible of pain. All things invite To peaceful counfels, and the fettled Hate Of order, how in fafety bell we may Compofe our prefent evils, with regard Of what we are, and where, difmifiing quite All thoughts of war. —Ye have what I advife. He fcarce had finiih d, when fuch murmur fill’d Th’ affembly, as when hollow rocks retain 285 The found of bluftring winds, which all night long llvuSTtUn*. 5. Had rouz’d the fea, now with hoarfe cadence lull . ^ Sea-faring men o’erwatch’d, whofe bark by chance, Or pinnace, anchors in a craggy bay After the temped : fuch applaufe was heard As Mammon ended, and his fentence pleas’d, Advifing peace : for fuch another field Ek They dreaded worfe than hell : Co much the fear Of thunder, and the fword of Mich a i l, Wrought ftill within them ; and no lefs defire To found this nether empire, which might rife, By policy, and long procefs of time, In emulation oppofite to heav’n. Which when Beelzebub perceiv’d (than whom, Satan except, none higher fat) with grave Afpeft he rofe, and in his riling feem’d A pillar of ftate : deep on his front engraven Deliberation fat, and public care ; And princely counfel in his face yet ihone, Majeftick though in ruin : fage he (food, With Atlantean Ihoulders fit to bear The weight of mightieft monarchies ; his look Drew audience and attention ftill as night, Or fummer’s noon-tide air, while thus he fpake. Thrones, and imperial Pow’rs ! offspring of heav’n, Ethereal Virtues 1 or thefe titles now Muft we renounce, and changing ftyle be call’d Princes of hell ? for fo the popular vote Inclines, here to continue, and build up here A growing empire : doubtlefs ! while we dream, And know not that the king of heav’n hath doom’d This place our dungeon, not our fafe retreat Beyond his potent arm, to live exempt From heav’n’s high jurifdiilion, in new league Banded againft his throne : but to remain In ftriileft bondage, though thus far remov’d, Under th’ inevitable curb, referv’d Hiscaptive multitude : For he, be fure, In height or depth, ftill firft and laft will reign Sole King, and of his kingdom lofe no part By cur revolt ; but over hell extendBook II. Paradise Lost. 39 His empire, and with iron fceptre rule Us here, as with his golden thofe in heav’n. ^rkuf f. 2 What fit we then projecting peace and war ? War hath determin’d us, and foil’d with lofs 330 Irreparable ; terms of peace yet none Vouchfaf’d or fought: for what peace will be giv’n DU. Mpj? J. To us enflav’d, but cufiody fevere, And ftripes, and arbitrary punilhment Inflicted ? and what peace can we return ? 333 But, to our power, holtility, and hate, Untam’d reluCtance, and revenge, though flow, Yet ever plotting how the conqueror leaft May reap his conqueft, and may lead rejoice In doing what we moft in differing feel ? 34° Nor will occaiion want, nor ihall we need With dangerous expedition to invade Heav’n, whofe high walls fear no aflault or fiege, Or ambuih from the deep : what if we find Some eafier enter prize ? there is a place, 345 (If ancient and prophetic fame in heav’n Err not) another world, the happy feat Of fome new race call’d Man, about this time To be created like to us, though lefs In pow’r and excellence, but favor’d more t.T'ft l f. >35° Of him who rules above : fo was his will Pronounc’d among the Gods, and by an oath, That Ihook heav’n’s whole circumference, confirm’d. ^ Thither let us bend all our thoughts, to learn What creatures there inhabit, of what mold, 355 Or fubftance, how endu’d, and what their pow’r, And where their weaknefs, how attempted bed, By force or fubtilty. Though heav’n be Ihut, „ 14 {tj'{., \ And heav’n’s high arbitrator fit fecure In his own ftrength, this place may lye expos’d 360 The utmoft border of his kingdom, left It ToBook II. To their defence who hold it: here perhaps Some advantages a