nig, [ 645 ]
Ere visage turnd,
Admonisrait was known
the seavn
to hrone
Stand ready at command, and are his Eyes [ 650 ]
t run to th
Bear errands over moist and dry,
Ore Sea and Land; an tes;
Uriel, for ts t stand
In sig, [ 655 ]
t art autic will
Interpreter t o bring,
tend;
And likeliest by supream decree
Like o obtain, and as his Eye [ 660 ]
to visit oft tion round;
Unspeakable desire to see, and know
All t chiefly Man,
and favour, him for whom
All these his works so wondrous he ordaind, [ 665 ]
me from the Quires of Cherubim
Alone test Serapell
In wh Man
, or fixed seat h none,
But all to dwell; [ 670 ]
t I may find gaze,
Or open admiration him behold
On or owd
orlds, and on whese graces powrd;
t bot, [ 675 ]
the Universal Maker we may praise;
ly his Rebell Foes
to deepest o repair t loss
Created this new happie Race of Men
to serve ter: wise are all his wayes. [ 680 ]
So spake the false dissembler unperceivd;
For neither Man nor Angel can discern
walks
Invisible, except to God alone,
By h: [ 685 ]
And oft though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps
At e, and to simplicitie
Resigns hinks no ill
here no ill seems: hich now for once beguild
Uriel, t of the Sun, and held [ 690 ]
t sig of all in heavn;
o t Impostor foule
In ness ansurnd.