Whom reason hath equald, force hath made supream

Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: [ 260 ]

Can make a Heavn of Hell, a Hell of Heavn. [ 255 ]

Who now is Sovran can dispose and bid

Th associates and copartners of our loss [ 265 ]

With stench and smoak: Such resting found the sole

Both glorying to have scapt the Stygian flood

Of u9９ｌｉb.neｔnblest feet. Him followed his next Mate,

So Satan spake, and him Beelzebub

And leave a singed bottom all involvd

Receive thy new Possessor: One who brings

Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime,

Thir surest signal, they will soon resume

Which but th Onmipotent none could have foyld,

The mind is its own place, and in it 99lib.netself

Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell

A mind not to be changd by Place or Time.

Of battel when it ragd, in all assaults

But wherefore let we then our faithful friends,

Not by the sufferance of supernal Power.

What shall be right: fardest from him is best

With rallied Arms to try what may be yet

Thus answerd. Leader of those Armies bright,

Above his equals. Farewel happy Fields

Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce

That we must change for Heavn, this mournful gloom

We shall be free; th Almighty hath not built

Lye thus astonisht on th oblivious Pool,

To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:

And what I should be, all but less then he

What matter whe

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re, if I be still the same,

And call them not to share with us their part

Said then the lost Arch-Angel, this the seat

Regaind in Heavn, or what more lost in Hell? [ 270 ]

As Gods, and by thir own recoverd strength, [ 240 ]

If once they hear that voyce, thir liveliest pledge

New courage and revive, though now they lye

Where Joy for ever dwells: Hｗｗw•99ｌｉｂ•neｔail horrours, hail [ 250 ]

Of hope in fears and dangers, heard so oft [ 275 ]

Groveling and prostrate on yon Lake of Fire, [ 280 ]

For that celestial light? Be it so, since he [ 245 ]

In this unhappy Mansion, or once more

Better to reign in Hell, then serve in Heavn.

In worst extreams, and on the perilous edge

Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at least