er loe, irresolute
Of ts revolvd, ence chose
Fit Vessel, fittest Imp of fraud, in whom
to enter, and ions hide [ 90 ]
From s sighe wilie Snake,
ever sleights none would suspiark,
As from and native suttletie
Proceeding, ws observd
Doubt mig of Diabolic powr [ 95 ]
Active e.
t first from inward griefe
ing passion into plaints thus pourd:
O Earto preferrd
More justly, Seat [ 100 ]
its, ref w was old!
For er better worse would build?
terrestrial round by other heavns
t s bear t officious Lamps,
Lig, for thee alone, as seems, [ 105 ]
In tring all thir precious beams
Of sacred influence: As God in heavn
Is ter, yet extends to all, so thou
tring receavst from all thee,
Not in tue appeers [ 110 ]
Productive in , and nobler birth
Of Creatures animate h gradual life
Of Growth, Sense, Reason, all summd up in Man.
it delig thee round,
If I could joy in aug interge [ 115 ]
Of hill, and Vallie, Rivers, oods and Plaines,
Now Land, now Sea, and S d,
Rocks, Dens, and Caves; but I in none of these
Find place e; and the more I see
Pleasures about me, so much more I feel [ 120 ]
torment eful siege
Of traries; all good to me bees
Bane, and in ate.
But her here seek I, no nor in heavn
t heavns Supreame; [ 125 ]
Nor o be my self less miserable
By oto make such
As I, to me redound:
For onely iroying I find ease
to my reles; and royd, [ 130 ]
Or o er loss,
For whis will soon
Folloo in weal or woe,
Iru wide may range:
to mee she glorie sole among [ 135 ]
to have marrd
ie styld, six Nights and Days
tinud making, and who knows how long
Before riving, though perhaps
Not lo freed [ 140 ]
From servitude inglorious welnigh half
t throng
Of o be avengd,
And to repaire hus impaird,
ue spent of old now faild [ 145 ]
More Ao Create, if t least
Are ed, or to spite us more,
Determind to advao our room
A Creature formd of Earth, and him endow,
Exalted from so base inal, [ 150 ]
it he decreed
ed; Man
Magnifit t,
ie!
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