Calls us to Penance? More destroyd then thus

To less then Gods. On th other side up rose

With Armed watch, that render all access [ 130 ]

The better reason, to perplex and dash

Or if our substance be indeed Divine,

For dignity composd and high exploit:

To vice industrious, but to Nobler deeds

Timorous and slothful: yet he plehｔtｐｓ://read•99csｗ•cｏｍasd the ear,

Our power sufficient to disturb his Heavn,

Maturest Counsels: for his thoughts were low; [ 115 ]

When he who most excels in fact of Arms,

Where pain of unextinguishable fire

Mistrustful, grounds his courage on despair

A fairer person lost not Heavn; he seemd [ 110 ]

His utmost ire? which to九九藏書 the highth enragd, [ 95 ]

In what he counsels and in what excels [ 125 ]

Then miserable to have eternal being:

The Vassals of his anger, when the Scourge [ 90 ]

What fear we then? what doubt we to incense

Did not disswade me most, and seem to cast

I should be much for open Warr, O Peers,

He ended frowning, and his look den九_九_藏_書ouncd

As not behind in hate; if what was urgd [ 120 ]

And with perpetual inrodes to Allarme,

And cannot cease to be, we are at worst [ 100 ]

To nothing this essential, happier farr

Will either quite consume us, and reduce

We should be quite abolisht and expire.

On this side nothing; and by proof we feel

Though inaccessible, his hｔtpｓ://ｒｅad.９９cｓw•ｃｏmfatal Throne:

But all was false and hollow; though his Tongue

Must exercise us without hope of end

Scout farr and wide into the Realm of night,

Impregnable; oft on the bordering Deep

Inexorably, and the torturing hour

Which if not Victory is yet Revenge. [ 105 ]

Of all his aim, after some dire revenge.

Main reason to persuade immedhttps://read.99csw.comiate Warr,

And utter dissolution, as the scope

Encamp thir Legions, or with obscure wing

First, what Revenge? the Towrs of Heavn are filld

Dropt Manna, and could make the worse appear

Belial, in act more graceful and humane;

Ominous conjecture on the whole success:

And with perswasive accent thus began.

Desperate revenge, and Battel dangerous