tions, Princedoms, Vertues, Powers, [ 460 ]
For in possession suc onely of right,
I call ye and declare ye nournd
Successful beyond o lead ye forth
triump out of t
Abominable, accurst, the house of woe, [ 465 ]
And Dungeon of our tyrant: Now possess,
As Lords, a spacious orld, to our native heaven
Little inferiour, by my adventure hard
it atco tell
I sufferd, paine [ 470 ]
Voyagd t, unbounded deep
Of horrible confusion, over which
By Sin and Death a broad way now is pavd
to expedite your glorious marc I
toild out my uncout to ride [ 475 ]
tractable Abysse, plungd in the womb
Of unoriginal Night and Chaos wilde,
t jealous of ts fiercely opposd
My journey strange, h clamorous uproare
Protesting Fate supreame; thence how I found [ 480 ]
ted orld, which fame in heavn
Long old, a Fabrick wonderful
Of absolute perfection, therein Man
Plact in a Paradise, by our exile
Made happie: him by fraud I have seducd [ 485 ]
From or, and to increase
Your
Offended, er, h givn up
Both his beloved Man and all his orld,
to Sin and Deato us, [ 490 ]
it our hazard, labour, or allarme,
to range in, and to dwell, and over Man
to rule, as over all he should have ruld.
true is, mee also her
Mee not, but te Serpent in whose shape [ 495 ]
Man I deceavd: t wo mee belongs,
Is enmity, ween
Mee and Mankinde; I am to bruise his heel;
set, shall bruise my head:
A orld w purch a bruise, [ 500 ]
Or muc
Of my performance: remains, ye Gods,
But up and enter noo full bliss.