Subjected to his service Angel wings, [ 155 ]
And flaming Ministers to cend
the vigilance
I dread, and to elude, t in mist
Of midnight vapor glide obscure, and prie
In every Bush and Brake, where hap may finde [ 160 ]
t sleeping, in whose mazie foulds
to ent I bring.
O foul descent! t I ended
ito sit t, am noraind
Into a Beast, and mixt ial slime, [ 165 ]
to incarnate and imbrute,
t to t of Deitie aspird;
But Ambition and Revenge
Descend to? w down as low
As or last [ 170 ]
to basest t first t,
Bitter ere long back on it self recoiles;
Let it; I reck not, so it light well aimd,
Since , on
Provokes my envie, te [ 175 ]
Of e,
o spite his Maker raisd
From dust: spite te is best repaid.
So saying, t Danck or Drie,
Like a black mist low creeping, he held on [ 180 ]
searc finde
t: sleeping soon he found
In Labyrinth of many a round self-rowld,
, ord tle wiles:
Not yet in horrid Shade or dismal Den, [ 185 ]
Nor nocent yet, but on the grassie herbe
Fearless unfeard : in at h
terd, and al sense,
In or head, possessing soon inspird
it intelligential; but his sleep [ 190 ]
Disturbd not, ing close th approach of Morn.
Noo dawne
In Eden on t breathd
t breath,
From t Altar send up silent praise [ 195 ]
to tor, and rils fill
iteful Smell, forthe human pair
And joind to the Quire
Of Creatures ing voice, t done, partake
test Sents and Aires: [ 200 ]
t day t may ply
tgrew
tcwo Gardning so wide.
And Eve first to hus began.