O For t warning voice, which he who saw

    th Apocalyps, heard cry in heaven aloud,

    t to second rout,

    Came furious doo be revengd on men,

    o to tants on Eart now, [ 5 ]

    ime -Parents had bin warnd

    t foe, and scapd

    al snare; for now

    Satan, no inflamd h rage, came down,

    tempter ere th Accuser of man-kind, [ 10 ]

    to  frail man his loss

    Of t first Battel, and  to hell:

    Yet not rejoycing in hough bold,

    Far off and fearless, nor o boast,

    Begins tempt, wh [ 15 ]

    Nouous brest,

    And like a devillish Engine back recoiles

    Upon  distract

    roubld ts, and from ttom stirr

    thin him hell [ 20 ]

    him, nor from hell

    One step no more then from himself can fly

    By change of place: Now conscience wakes despair

    t slumberd, ter memorie

    Of  be [ 25 ]

    orse; of  ensue.

    Sometimes towards Eden which now in his view

    Lay pleasant, his grievd look he fixes sad,

    Sometimes towards he full-blazing Sun,

    owre: [ 30 ]

    thus in sighs began.

    O t h surpassing Glory crownd,

    Lookst from the God

    Of t arrs

    o thee I call, [ 35 ]

    But hy name

    O Sun, to tell te thy beams

    t bring to my remembrance from ate

    I fell, hy Spheare;

    till Pride and ion threw me down [ 40 ]

    arring in  chless King:

    Aurn

    From me, wed w I was

    In t brigh his good

    Upbraided none; nor was his service hard. [ 45 ]

    could be less to afford him praise,

    t recompence, and pay hanks,

    all his good provd ill in me,

    And ed up so high

    I sdeind subjection, and t one step higher [ 50 ]

    ould set me , and in a moment quit

    t immense of endless gratitude,

    So burtill paying, still to ow;

    Forgetful w from ill receivd,

    And understood not t a grateful mind [ 55 ]

    By o, but still pays, at once

    Indebted and disc burden then?