Glory of him that made them, to transform [ 370 ]

By falsities and lyes the greatest part

Thus drooping, or with linked Thunderbolts

By thir Rebellion, from the Books of Life.

They heard, and were abasht, and up they sprung

A multitude, like which the populous North

The Heads and Leaders thither hast where stood

Cherube and Seraph rowling in the Flood

Got them new Names九九藏书网, till wandring ore the Earth, [ 365 ]

Oft to the Image of a Brute, adornd

Th advantage, and descending tread us down

Hovering on wing under the Cope of Hell [ 345 ]

Till, as a signal givn, th uplifted Spear

His swift pursuers from Heavn Gates discern

Of Locusts, warping on the Eastern Wind,

On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread,

Yet to thir Generals Voy９9ｌiｂ•ｎetce they soon obeyd

Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake.

Be no memorial blotted out and rasd

Though of thir Names in heavnly Records now

Came like a Deluge on the South, and spread

On the firm brimstone, and fill all the Plain; [ 350 ]

Transfix us to the bottom of this Gulfe.

Like Night, and darkend all the Land of Nile:

Of thir great Sultan waving to direhttp://www.99lib.netct

With scatterd Arms and Ensigns, till anon [ 325 ]

Excelling human, Princely Dignities,

That ore the Realm of impious Pharaoh hung

In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel;

Rhene or the Danaw, when her barbarous Sons

Nor did they not perceave the evil plight [ 335 ]

Wavd round the Coast, up calld a pitchy cloud [ 340 ]

With gay Religions full of Pomp and Gol九九藏书d,

Upon the wing, as when men wont to watch

So numberless were those bad Angels seen

Or in this abject posture have ye sworn

God thir Creator, and th invisible

And Powers that earst in Heaven sat on Thrones; [ 360 ]

Forthwith from every Squadron and each Band

Thir course, in even ballance down they light

Beneath Gibralter to the Lybian sands. [ 355 ]

Of Mankind they corrupted to 九*九*藏*书*网forsake

To adore the Conquerour? who now beholds

Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding Fires;

Innumerable. As when the potent Rod

Of Amrams Son in Egypts evill day

Awake, arise, or be for ever falln. [ 330 ]

Nor had they yet among the Sons of Eve

Pourd never from her frozen loyns, to pass

Through Gods high sufferance for the tryal of man,

Thir great Commander; Godlike shapes and forms