To my associate Powers, them to acquaint [ 395 ]

All yours, right down to Paradise descend;

You two this way, among these numerous Orbs

Chiefly on Man, sole Lord of all declard,

There dwell and Reign in bliss, thence on the Earth

Descend through Darkness, on your Rode with ease

With this portentousread.99csw.com Bridge the dark Abyss.

Issuing from mee: on your joynt vigor now [ 405 ]

Within Hell Gates till now, thou us impowrd

Thine now is all this World, thy vertue hath won

With odds what Warr hath lost, and fully avengd

Mine with this glorious Work, and made one Realm

High proof ye now九_九_藏_書 have givn to be the Race [ 385 ]

Him first make sure your thrall, and lastly kill.

What thy hands builded not, thy Wisdom gaind

Through Sin to Death exposd by my exploit.

Dominion exercise and in the Aire, [ 400 ]

Whom thus the Prince of Darkness answerd glad.

His Quadrature, from thy Orbicularead.99csw.comr World,

Of easie thorough-fare. Therefore while I

Antagonist of Heavns Almightie King)

Of all things parted by th Empyreal bounds, [ 380 ]

Our foile in Heavn; here thou shalt Monarch reign, [ 375 ]

There didst not; there let him still Victor sway,

Triumphal with triumphal act have met, [ 390 ]

Hel九-九-藏-書l and this World, one Realm, one Continent

My hold of this new Kingdom all depends,

Thou hast atchievd our libertie, confind

Amply have merited of me, of all

Or trie thee now more dangrous to his Throne.

Of Satan (for I glorie in the name,

Th Infernal Empire, that so neer Heavns dore

Plenipotent on Earth, o九*九*藏*書f matchless might

Retiring, by his own doom alienated,

As Battel hath adjudgd, from this new World

My Substitutes I send ye, and Create

And henceforth Monarchie with thee divide

To fortifie thus farr, and overlay [ 370 ]

With these successes, and with them rejoyce,

Fair Daughter, and thou Son and Grandchild both,