guile,
e noe; who can advise, may speak.
erd King
Stood up, trongest and t Spirit
t fought in heavn; now fiercer by despair: [ 45 ]
rust ernal to be deemd
Equal in strengthen be less
Cared not to be at all; care lost
ent all his fear: of God, or hell, or worse
, and ter spake. [ 50 ]
My sentence is for open arr: Of iles,
More unexpert, I boast not: t those
Contrive w now.
For riving, s,
Millions t stand in Arms, and longing [ 55 ]
to ascend, sit lingring here
ives, and for thir dwelling place
Accept this dark opprobrious Den of shame,
tyranny who Reigns
By our delay? no, let us rather choose [ 60 ]
Armd once
Ore oo force resistless way,
turning our tortures into horrid Arms
Against torturer; the noise
Of y Engin he shall hear [ 65 ]
Infernal tning see
Black fire and h equal rage
Among self
Mixt artarean Sulprange fire,
ed torments. But perhaps [ 70 ]
t and steep to scale
it a higher foe.
Let suche sleepy drench
Of t forgetful Lake benumm not still,
t in our proper motion we ascend [ 75 ]
Up to our native seat: descent and fall
to us is adverse. felt of late
he fierce Foe hung on our brokn Rear
Insulting, and pursud us the Deep,
it compulsion and laborious flight [ 80 ]
e sunk t is easie then;
t is feard; should we again provoke
Our stronger, some worse way h may find
to our destruction: if there be in hell
Fear to be royd: w can be worse [ 85 ]
to dwell from bliss, condemnd
In to utter woe;