And leave a singed bottom all involvd
itencing found the sole
Of unblest feet.
Mate,
Boto tygian flood
As Gods, and by trength, [ 240 ]
Not by the sufferance of supernal Power.
Is the Clime,
Said t Arc
t chis mournful gloom
For t celestial lig so, since he [ 245 ]
ho now is Sovran can dispose and bid
s: fardest from
h made supream
Above his equals. Farewel happy Fields
here Joy for ever dwells: hail horrours, hail [ 250 ]
Infernal hell
Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings
A mind not to be cime.
ts o self
Can make a heavn of hell, a hell of heavn. [ 255 ]
matter he same,
And hen he
er? least
e sy built
drive us hence: [ 260 ]
here we may reign secure, and in my choyce
to reign is ion though in hell:
Better to reign in hen serve in heavn.
But hful friends,
tes and copartners of our loss [ 265 ]
Lye tonish oblivious Pool,
And call t to s
In this unhappy Mansion, or once more
ito try
Regaind in more lost in hell? [ 270 ]
So Satan spake, and him Beelzebub
t,
tent none could have foyld,
If once t voyce, t pledge
Of [ 275 ]
In extreams, and on the perilous edge
Of battel s
t signal, they will soon resume
Nehey lye
Groveling and prostrate on yon Lake of Fire, [ 280 ]