O iny ordaind
Me some inferiour Angel, I ood
then happie; no unbounded hope had raisd [ 60 ]
Ambition. Yet her Power
As great mighough mean
Drao ; but ot
Fell not, but stand unshin
Or from , to all temptations armd. [ 65 ]
to stand?
t: to accuse,
But equally to all?
Be t, since love or e,
to me alike, it deals eternal woe. [ 70 ]
Nay cursd be t hy will
C it noly rues.
Me miserable! which way shall I flie
Infinite e despaire?
hich way I flie is hell; my self am hell; [ 75 ]
And in t deep a lower deep
Still tning to devour me opens wide,
to whe hell I suffer seems a heavn.
O t last relent: is there no place
Left for Repentance, none for Pardon left? [ 80 ]
None left but by submission; and t word
Disdain forbids me, and my dread of shame
Among ts beneath, whom I seducd
its
to submit, boasting I could subdue [ 85 ]
tent. Ay me, ttle know
boast so vaine,
Under orments inwardly I groane:
hrone of hell,
itre high advancd [ 90 ]
till I fall, onely Supream
In miserie; sucion findes.
But say I could repent and could obtaine
By Act of Grace my former state; how soon
ould s, how soon unsay [ 95 ]
feignd submission s
Vo and void.
For never can true reconcilement grow
e have peircd so deep:
lead me to a worse relapse [ 100 ]
And heavier fall: so should I purchase deare
S intermission boug.