tions, Princedoms, Vertues, Powers, [ 460 ]

    For in possession suc onely of right,

    I call ye and declare ye nournd

    Successful beyond o lead ye forth

    triump out of t

    Abominable, accurst, the house of woe, [ 465 ]

    And Dungeon of our tyrant: Now possess,

    As Lords, a spacious orld, to our native heaven

    Little inferiour, by my adventure hard

    it atco tell

    I  sufferd,  paine [ 470 ]

    Voyagd t, unbounded deep

    Of horrible confusion, over which

    By Sin and Death a broad way now is pavd

    to expedite your glorious marc I

    toild out my uncout to ride [ 475 ]

    tractable Abysse, plungd in the womb

    Of unoriginal Night and Chaos wilde,

    t jealous of ts fiercely opposd

    My journey strange, h clamorous uproare

    Protesting Fate supreame; thence how I found [ 480 ]

    ted orld, which fame in heavn

    Long old, a Fabrick wonderful

    Of absolute perfection, therein Man

    Plact in a Paradise, by our exile

    Made happie: him by fraud I have seducd [ 485 ]

    From or, and to increase

    Your

    Offended, er, h givn up

    Both his beloved Man and all his orld,

    to Sin and Deato us, [ 490 ]

    it our hazard, labour, or allarme,

    to range in, and to dwell, and over Man

    to rule, as over all he should have ruld.

    true is, mee also her

    Mee not, but te Serpent in whose shape [ 495 ]

    Man I deceavd: t wo mee belongs,

    Is enmity, ween

    Mee and Mankinde; I am to bruise his heel;

    set, shall bruise my head:

    A orld w purch a bruise, [ 500 ]

    Or muc

    Of my performance:  remains, ye Gods,

    But up and enter noo full bliss.