inguishable fire
Must exercise us hope of end
the Scourge [ 90 ]
Inexorably, and torturing hour
Calls us to Penance? More destroyd thus
e se abolisht and expire.
fear doubt o incense
most ire? h enragd, [ 95 ]
ill eite consume us, and reduce
to notial, happier farr
to ernal being:
Or if our substance be indeed Divine,
And cannot cease to be, [ 100 ]
On thing; and by proof we feel
Our po to disturb his heavn,
And ual inrodes to Allarme,
tal throne:
Victory is yet Revenge. [ 105 ]
he ended frowning, and his look denouncd
Desperate revenge, and Battel dangerous
to less ther side up rose
Belial, in act more graceful and humane;
A fairer person lost not heavn; he seemd [ 110 ]
For dignity composd and :
But all was false and ongue
Dropt Manna, and could make the worse appear
tter reason, to perplex and dash
Maturest Counsels: for s were low; [ 115 ]
to vice industrious, but to Nobler deeds
timorous and slot he ear,
And thus began.
I should be much for open arr, O Peers,
As not bee; if w was urgd [ 120 ]
Main reason to persuade immediate arr,
Did not diss, and seem to cast
Ominous conjecture on the whole success:
excels in fact of Arms,
In w excels [ 125 ]
Mistrustful, grounds his courage on despair
And utter dissolution, as the scope
Of all er some dire revenge.
First, owrs of heavn are filld
itc render all access [ 130 ]
Impregnable; oft on the bordering Deep
Encamp th obscure wing
Scout farr and o t,