Before mine eyes in opposition sits

    Grim Deats them on,

    And me  would full soon devour [ 805 ]

    For  of ot t he knows

    I

    Ster Morsel, and his bane,

    se pronouncd.

    But thee, shun [ 810 ]

    her vainly hope

    to be invulnerable in t Arms,

    temperd  mortal dint,

    Save .

    Stle Fiend his lore [ 815 ]

    Soon learnd, noh.

    Dear Daug me for thy Sire,

    And my fair Son  me, the dear pledge

    Of dalliance hee in heavn, and joys

    t, noo mention, through dire change [ 820 ]

    Befalln us unforeseen, unt of, know

    I come no enemie, but to set free

    From out this dark and dismal house of pain,

    Bot

    Of Spirits t in our just pretenses armd [ 825 ]

    Fell hem I go

    th errand sole, and one for all

    Myself expose, eps to tread

    the void immense

    to searc a place foretold [ 830 ]

    Should be, and, by concurring signs, ere now

    Created vast and round, a place of bliss

    In t

    A race of upstart Creatures, to supply

    Per room, though more removd, [ 835 ]

    Least ent multitude

    Migo move ne

    t now designd, I e

    to knourn,

    And bring ye to th [ 840 ]

    S ease, and up and down unseen

    ing silently the buxom Air, imbalmd

    ithere ye shall be fed and filld

    Immeasurably, all things shall be your prey.

    h [ 845 ]

    Grinnd ly smile, to hear

    his mawe

    Destind to t good hour: no less rejoycd

    hus bespake her Sire.