Or if our substance be indeed Divine,

And utter dissolution, as the scope

Ominous conjecture on the whole success:

And with perswasive accent thus began.

Scout farr and wide into the Realm of night,

Which if not Victory is yet Revenge. [ 105 ]

Calls us to Penance? More destroyd then thus

Impregnable; oft on the bordering Deep九-九-藏-书-网

I should be much for open Warr, O Peers,

First, what Revenge? the Towrs of Heavn are filld

For dignity composd and high exploit:

The Vassals of his anger, when the Scourge [ 90 ]

Main reason to persuade immediate Warr,

To less then Gods. On th other side up rose

Will either quite consume us, and reduce

And with 九-九-藏-书-网perpetual inrodes to Allarme,

What fear we then? what doubt we to incense

On this side nothing; and by proof we feel

But all was false and hollow; though his Tongue

Then miserable to have eternal being:

His utmost ire? which to the highth enragd, [ 95 ]

Our power sufficient to disturb his Heavn,

In what he counsels

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and in what excels [ 125 ]

Mistrustful, grounds his courage on despair

A fairer person lost not Heavn; he seemd [ 110 ]

The better reason, to perplex and dash

To nothing this essential, happier farr

With Armed watch, that render all access [ 130 ]

Dropt Manna, and could make the worse appear

Did not disswade me most, and seem 99ｌｉb•neｔto cast

Inexorably, and the torturing hour

To vice industrious, but to Nobler deeds

Must exercise us without hope of end

Timorous and slothful: yet he pleasd the ear,

Encamp thir Legions, or with obscure wing

Desperate revenge, and Battel dangerous

Belial, in act more graceful and humane;

Though inaccessible, his fatal Throne:

And ca九九藏书nnot cease to be, we are at worst [ 100 ]

Where pain of unextinguishable fire

As not behind in hate; if what was urgd [ 120 ]

Of all his aim, after some dire revenge.

Maturest Counsels: for his thoughts were low; [ 115 ]

He ended frowning, and his look denouncd

We should be quite abolisht and expire.

When he who most excels in fact of Arms,