Where to lie hid; Sea he had searcht and Land

West from Orontes to the Ocean barrd [ 80 ]

In meditated fraud and malice, bent [ 55 ]

Where Tigris at the foot of Paradise

Twilight upon the Earth, short Arbiter [ 50 ]

Into a Gulf shot under ground, till part

From Pole to Pole, traversi９９lｉｂ•ｎetng each Colure;

Nights Hemisphere had veild the Horizon round:

He circld, four times crossd the Carr of Night [ 65 ]

In with the River sunk, and with it rose

On mans destruction, maugre what might hap

When Satan who late fled before the threats

Rose up a Fountain by th九-九-藏-书-网e Tree of Life;

Since Uriel Regent of the Sun descrid [ 60 ]

Most opportune might serve his Wiles, and found [ 85 ]

From Eden over Pontus, and the Poole

Ganges and Indus: thus the Orb he roamd

The Sun was sunk, and after him the Starr

With darkness, thrice the Equinoctial Line

９9liｂ•ｎｅｔHis entrance, and forewarnd the Cherubim

By Night he fled, and at Midnight returnd.

That kept thir watch; thence full of anguish drivn,

Of heavier on himself, fearless returnd.

Of Gabriel out of Eden, now improvd

Of Hesperus, whose Office is to bring

Considerd every Creature, which o

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Satan involvd in rising Mist, then sought [ 75 ]

From compassing the Earth, cautious of day,

With narrow search; and with inspection deep

Now not, though Sin, not Time, first wraught the change, [ 70 ]

The space of seven continud Nights he rode

Mæotis, up beyond the River Ob;

Found unsuspected way. There was a place,

From entrance or Cherubic Watch, by stealth

At Darien, thence to the Land where flowes

The Serpent suttlest Beast of all the Field.

Twixt Day and Night, and now from end to end

On the eighth returnd, and on the Coast averse

Downward as farr Antartic; and in length