O For t warning voice, which he who saw
th Apocalyps, heard cry in heaven aloud,
t to second rout,
Came furious doo be revengd on men,
o to tants on Eart now, [ 5 ]
ime -Parents had bin warnd
t foe, and scapd
al snare; for now
Satan, no inflamd h rage, came down,
tempter ere th Accuser of man-kind, [ 10 ]
to frail man his loss
Of t first Battel, and to hell:
Yet not rejoycing in hough bold,
Far off and fearless, nor o boast,
Begins tempt, wh [ 15 ]
Nouous brest,
And like a devillish Engine back recoiles
Upon distract
roubld ts, and from ttom stirr
thin him hell [ 20 ]
him, nor from hell
One step no more then from himself can fly
By change of place: Now conscience wakes despair
t slumberd, ter memorie
Of be [ 25 ]
orse; of ensue.
Sometimes towards Eden which now in his view
Lay pleasant, his grievd look he fixes sad,
Sometimes towards he full-blazing Sun,
owre: [ 30 ]
thus in sighs began.
O t h surpassing Glory crownd,
Lookst from the God
Of t arrs
o thee I call, [ 35 ]
But hy name
O Sun, to tell te thy beams
t bring to my remembrance from ate
I fell, hy Spheare;
till Pride and ion threw me down [ 40 ]
arring in chless King:
Aurn
From me, wed w I was
In t brigh his good
Upbraided none; nor was his service hard. [ 45 ]
could be less to afford him praise,
t recompence, and pay hanks,
all his good provd ill in me,
And ed up so high
I sdeind subjection, and t one step higher [ 50 ]
ould set me , and in a moment quit
t immense of endless gratitude,
So burtill paying, still to ow;
Forgetful w from ill receivd,
And understood not t a grateful mind [ 55 ]
By o, but still pays, at once
Indebted and disc burden then?