Illaudable, naught merits but dispraise

Now Night her course began, and over Heavn

Far in the dark dislodgd, and void of rest, [ 415 ]

For strength from Truth divided and from Just,

And silence on the odious dinn of Warr:

Far otherwise th inviolable Saints

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Unwearied, unobnoxious to be paind

Encamping, placd in Guard thir Watches round,

And fierie foaming Steeds; what stood, recoyld

Victor and Vanquisht: on the foughten field [ 410 ]

In Cubic Phalanx fi九九藏書rm advanct entire,

And now thir Mightiest quelld, the battel swervd,

Such high advantages thir innocence

Enterd, and foul disorder; all the ground

And ignominie, yet to glorie aspires

Not liable to fear or flight or paine.

Invulnerable, impenitrably armd: [ 400 九九藏書]

Michael and his Angels prevalent

Defensive scarse, or with pale fear surprisd,

Gave them above thir foes, not to have sinnd,

By wound, though from thir place by violence movd. [ 405 ]

With many an inrode gord; deformed rout

And in the midst thus undismaid began.

Vaihttps://read.99csw.comn glorious, and through infamie seeks fame:

Cherubic waving fires: on th other part

Therfore Eternal silence be thir doome. [ 385 ]

Under her Cloudie covert both retird,

Satan with his rebellious disappeerd,

His Potentates to Councel calld by night;

Fled ignominious, https://read.99csw.comto such evil brought [ 395 ]

By sin of disobedience, till that hour

With shiverd armour strown, and on a heap

Chariot and Charioter lay overturnd [ 390 ]

Not to have disobeid; in fight they stood

Orewearied, through the faint Satanic Host

Inducing darkness, grateful truce imposd,