His Seed, when is not set, shall bruise my head:

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

To range in, and to dwell, and over Man

Of my performance: What remains, ye Gods,

Th untractable Abysse, plungd in the womb

Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Vertues, Powers, [ 460 ]

Of absolute perfection, therein Man

P九*九*藏*書rotesting Fate supreame; thence how I found [ 480 ]

As Lords, a spacious World, to our native Heaven

True is, mee also he hath judgd, or rather

Long had foretold, a Fabrick wonderful

Toild out my uncouth passage, forct to ride [ 475 ]

I call ye and declare ye now, returnd

Is enmity, which he will put be九-九-藏-書tween

That jealous of thir secrets fiercely opposd

Little inferiour, by my adventure hard

Mee and Mankinde; I am to bruise his heel;

My journey strange, with clamorous uproare

Or much more grievous pain? Ye have th account

Your wonder, with an Apple; he thereat

With peril great atchievd. Long were to tell

By 九九藏書Sin and Death a broad way now is pavd

From his Creator, and the more to increase

Mee not, but the brute Serpent in whose shape [ 495 ]

A World who would not purchase with a bruise, [ 500 ]

Man I deceavd: that which to mee belongs,

What I have don, what sufferd, with what paine [ 470 ]

To Sin and Death a prey, and so toread.99csw.com us, [ 490 ]

Without our hazard, labour, or allarme,

To expedite your glorious march; but I

Offended, worth your laughter, hath givn up

For in possession such, not onely of right,

Plact in a Paradise, by our exile

Voyagd th unreal, vast, unbounded deep

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

To rule, as over al九_九_藏_書l he should have ruld.

And Dungeon of our Tyrant: Now possess,

Of horrible confusion, over which

But up and enter now into full bliss.

Triumphant out of this infernal Pit

Of unoriginal Night and Chaos wilde,

Successful beyond hope, to lead ye forth

The new created World, which fame in Heavn

Both his beloved Man and all his World,