With terror through the dark Aereal Hall.

Thir planetarie motions and aspects

See with what heat these Dogs of Hell advance

Through multitude that sung: Just are thy ways,

Sung Halleluia, as the sound of Seas,

Solstitial summers heat. To the blanc Moone

My Hell-hounds, to lick up the draff and filth [ 630 ]

Thir influence malignant when to showre,

As might affect the Earth with cold 藏书网and heat

Of thy victorious Arm, well-pleasing Son,

A place so heavnly, and conniving seem

Of Passion, I to them had quitted all,

Her office they prescribd, to th other five

To sanctitie that shall receive no staine:

For ever, and seal up his ravenous Jawes.

As sorted best with present things. The Sun

Destind restorer of Mankind, by whom

To waste and havoc yonder World, wh九-九-藏-书-网ich I

Let in these wastful Furies, who impute [ 620 ]

Kept in that State, had not the folly of Man

Both Sin, and Death, and yawning Grave at last [ 635 ]

Or down from Heavn descend. Such was thir song,

On what was pure, till crammd and gorgd, nigh burst

His mightie Angels gave them several charge, [ 650 ]

And his Adherents, that with so much ease

Thir corners, when with bluster t九*九*藏*书*网o confound [ 665 ]

Scarce tollerable, and from the North to call

Which of them rising with the Sun, or falling,

Till then the Curse pronounct on both precedes. [ 640 ]

At random yielded up to their misrule;

In Sextile, Square, and Trine, and Opposite,

New Heavn and Earth shall to the Ages rise,

While the Creator calling forth by name

Which mans polluting Sin with taint hath shed

That九九藏书网 laugh, as if transported with some fit

In Synod unbenigne, and taught the fixt

Through Chaos hurld, obstruct the mouth of Hell

Who can extenuate thee? Next, to the Son, [ 645 ]

Sea, Aire, and Shoar, the Thunder when to rowle

And know not that I calld and drew them thither

Should prove tempestuous: To the Winds they set

So fair and good created, and had still

Had first his precept so to move九*九*藏*书*网, so shine,

Folly to mee, so doth the Prince of Hell

With suckt and glutted offal, at one sling

Of noxious efficacie, and when to joyne [ 660 ]

Decrepit Winter, from the South to bring [ 655 ]

I suffer them to enter and possess

To gratifie my scornful Enemies, [ 625 ]

Righteous are thy Decrees on all thy Works;

Then Heavn and Earth renewd shall be made pure

He ended, and the Heavnly Audience loud