That be assured, without leave askt of thee: [ 685 ]

Drew after him the third part of Heavns Sons

To whom the Goblin full of wrauth replyd,

Art thou that Traitor Angel, art thou hee,

Had not the Snakie Sorceress that sat

Against thy only Son? What fury O Son,

So spake the grieslie terror, and in shape,

Risn, and with hideous outcry rushd between.

False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings, [ 700 ]

With Heavns Artillery fraught, come rattling on [ 715 ]

Adm九_九_藏_书_网ird, not feard; God and his Son except,

Leveld his deadly aime; thir fatall hands

Incenst with indignation Satan stood

Where I reign King, and to enrage thee more,

Least with a whip of Scorpions I pursue

Hovring a space, till Winds the signal blow

And with disdainful look thus first began. [ 680 ]

And they outcast from God, are here condemnd

To yonder Gates? through them I mean to pass,

Grew darker at thir frown, so matcht they stood; [ 720 ]

A９9lｉb.nｅtt thee ordaind his drudge, to execute

Had been achievd, whereof all Hell had rung,

Fast by Hell Gate, and kept the fatal Key, [ 725 ]

That fires the length of Ophiucus huge

For never but once more was either like

Whence and what art thou, execrable shape,

Shakes Pestilence and Warr. Each at the Head

Strange horror seise thee, and pangs unfelt before.

To meet so great a foe: and now great deeds

That darst, though grim and terrible, advance

Thy lingrinｈtｔp://wwｗ•９９lｉｂ•ｎeｔg, or with one stroke of this Dart

Over the Caspian, then stand front to front

Possesses thee to bend that mortal Dart

Unbrokn, and in proud rebellious Arms

For him who sits above and laughs the while

O Father, what intends thy hand, she cryd,

To waste Eternal dayes in woe and pain? [ 695 ]

So speaking and so threatning, grew tenfold [ 705 ]

So frownd the mighty Combatants, that Hell

What ere his wrath, which he calls Justice, bids,

Thy miscreated Front athwart my way

Retire, or taste thy folly, and learn by proof,

Conjurd against the highest, for which both Thou

Who first broke peace in Heavn and Faith, till then [ 690 ]

More dreadful and deform: on th other side

His wrath which one day will destroy ye both.

No second stroke intend, and such a frown

The Monster moving onward came as fast [ 675 ]

Against thy Fathers head? and knowst for whom; [ 730 ]

And recknst thou thy self with Spirits of Heavn,

Hell-born, no99lib.nett to contend with Spirits of Heavn.

With horrid strides, Hell trembled as he strode.

Th undaunted Fiend what this might be admird,

To join thir dark Encounter in mid air:

In th Artick Sky, and from his horrid hair [ 710 ]

Each cast at th other, as when two black Clouds

Created thing naught valud he nor shund

Thy King and Lord? Back to thy punishment,

Hell-doomd, and breathst defiance here and scorn

Unterrifid, and like a Comet burnd,

Satan was now at hand, and from his seat