Rend up both Rocks and Hills, and ride the Air [ 540 ]

In whirlwind; Hell scarce holds the wilde uproar.

Part curb thir fierie Steeds, or shun the Goal

(What could it less when Spirits immortal sing?)

The thronging audience. In discourse more sweet [ 555 ]

Vain wisdom all, and false Philosophie: [ 565 ]

As 九_九_藏_書when to warn proud Cities warr appears

Suspended Hell, and took with ravishment

Free Vertue should enthrall to Force or Chance.

Prick forth the Aerie Knights, and couch thir Spears

Through pain up by the roots Thessalian Pines,

Yet with a pleasing sorcerie could charm

By doom of Battel; and complaread.99csw.comin that Fate [ 550 ]

Thir Song was partial, but the harmony

Of happiness and final misery,

Till thickest Legions close; with feats of Arms

Wagd in the troubld Skie, and Armies rush

With stubborn patience as with triple steel.

As at th Olympian Games or Pythian fields; [ 530 ]

As when Alcides from Oe九-九-藏-書chalia Crownd

With notes Angelical to many a Harp

Of Providence, Foreknowledge, Will and Fate,

Passion and Apathie, and glory and shame,

Fixt Fate, free will, foreknowledg absolute, [ 560 ]

And Lichas from the top of Oeta threw [ 545 ]

Retreated in a silent valley, sing

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Others apart sat on a Hill retird,

In thoughts more elevate, and reasond high

To Battel in the Clouds, before each Van [ 535 ]

From either end of Heavn the welkin burns.

With rapid wheels, or fronted Brigads form.

Into th Euboic Sea. Others more milde,

Fallacious hope, or arm th obdured brest

With conquest, felhttps://read.99csw.comt th envenomd robe, and tore

Pain for a while or anguish, and excite

Upon the wing, or in swift Race contend,

Of good and evil much they argud then,

Part on the Plain, or in the Air sublime

Others with vast Typhœan rage more fell

(For Eloquence the Soul, Song charms the Sense,)

And found no end, in wandring mazes lost.