I fled, but he pursud (though more, it seems, [ 790 ]

And in embraces forcible and foule

And fields were fought in Heavn; wherein remaind

Forth issud, brandishing his fatal Dart

These yelling Monsters that with ceasless cry [ 795 ]

The most averse, thee chiefly, who full oft

Forbore, then these to her Satan returnd:

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What it intends; till first I know of thee, [ 740 ]

That bred them they return, and howle and gnaw

Into this Deep, and in the general fall

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In Heavn, when at th Assembly, and in sight

Tore through my entrails, that with fear and pain

Hast thou forgot me then, and do I seem

Threw forth, till on the left side opning wide, [ 755 ]

In this infernal Vaile first met thou callst

Likest to thee in shape and countnance bright,

At last this odious offspring whom thou seest

Hell trembld at the hideous Name, and sighd

Becamst enamourd, and such joy thou tookst [ 765 ]

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That rest or intermission none I find.

From all her Caves, and back resounded Death.

At first, and calld me Sin, and for a Sign [ 760 ]

And hourly born, with sorrow infinite

Inflamd with lust then rage) and swifter far,

I know thee not, nor ever saw till now

Mee overtook his mother all dismaid,

Without my opning. Pensive here I sat

Through all the Empyrean: down they fell

Me Father, and that Fantasm callst my Son?

Sight more detestable then him and thee. [ 745 ]

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In bold conspiracy against Heavns King,

Ingendring with me, of that rape begot

Surprisd thee, dim thine eyes, and dizzie swumm

What thing thou art, thus double-formd, and why

So strange thy outcry, and thy words so strange

A fresh with conscious terrours vex me round,

To me, for when they list into the womb

Transformd: but he my inbred enemie [ 785 ]

Made to destroy: I fled, and cryd out Death;

Then shining Heavnly fair, a Goddess armd

Drivn headlong from the Pitch of Heaven, down

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Thy self in me thy perfect image viewing

My Bowels, thir repast; then bursting forth [ 800 ]

Prevented spares to tell thee yet by deeds

Thou interposest, that my sudden hand

Prodigious motion felt and rueful throes. [ 780 ]

T whom thus the Portress of Hell Gate replyd;

(For what could else) to our Almighty Foe

She spake, and at her words the hellish Pest [ 735 ]

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Thine own begotten, breaking violent way

Surround me, as thou sawst, hourly conceivd

All th Host of Heavn back they recoild affraid

Now in thine eye so foul, once deemd so fair

Alone, but long I sat not, till my womb

Distorted, all my nether shape thus grew

Into my hand was givn, with charge to keep [ 755 ]

Portentous held me; but familiar grown,

In darkness, while thy head flames thick and fast

These Gates for ever shut, which none can pass

Cleer Victory, to our part loss and rout [ 770 ]