Allegeance to th acknowledgd Power supream?

But still thy words at random, as before, [ 930 ]

Within these hallowd limits thou appeer,

Though for possession put to try once more

Back to th infernal pit I drag thee chaind, [ 965 ]

Satan, and couldst thou faithful add? O name, [ 950 ]

And Se九九藏书ale thee so, as henceforth not to scorne

Faithful to whom? to thy rebellious crew?

Was this your discipline and faith ingagd,

Patron of liberty, who more then thou

This new created World, whereof in Hell

What thou and thy gay Legions dare against;

To say and strait unsay, pretending

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Whose easier business were to serve thir Lord

So threatnd hee, but Satan to no threats

Heavns awful Monarch? wherefore but in hope [ 960 ]

High up in Heavn, with songs to hymne his Throne,

Through wayes of danger by himself untrid,

Gave heed, but waxing more in rage replid.藏书网

Once fawnd, and cringd, and servilly adord

The facil gates of hell too slightly barrd.

Argue thy inexperience what behooves

A faithful Leader, not to hazard all

From hard assaies and ill successes past

To whom the warriour Angel, soon replid.

And practisd distances to cringe, not fight. [ 九九藏书945 ]

Flie thither whence thou fledst: if from this houre

Better abode, and my afflicted Powers

But mark what I arreede thee now, avant;

Armie of Fiends, fit body to fit head;

Your military obedience, to dissolve [ 955 ]

To settle here on Earth, or in mid Aire; [ 940 ]

To wing the desolate Abyss, 九九藏书and spie

Fame is not silent, here in hope to find

I therefore, I alone first undertook [ 935 ]

And thou sly hypocrite, who now wouldst seem

O sacred name of faithfulness profand!

Argues no Leader, but a lyar tract,

To dispossess him, and thy self to reigne?

Wise to flie pain, professing next the Spie,