More dreadful and deform: on th other side

Had been achievd, whereof all Hell had rung,

His wrath which one day will destroy ye both.

Thy miscreated Front athwart my way

O Father, what intends thy hand, she cryd,

Strange horror seise thee, and pangs unfelt before.

Least with a whip of Scorpions I pursue

Each cast at th other, as when two black Clouds

At thee ordaind his drudge, to execute

So frownd the mighty Combatants, that Hell

To join thir dark Encount九*九*藏*書er in mid air:

Drew after him the third part of Heavns Sons

In th Artick Sky, and from his horrid hair [ 710 ]

For him who sits above and laughs the while

Shakes Pestilence and Warr. Each at the Head

Over the Caspian, then stand front to front

So speaking and so threatning, grew tenfold [ 705 ]

To meet so great a foe: and now great deeds

Had not the Snakie Sorceress that sat

So spake the grieslie terror, and in shape,

No second stroke intend, anread.9９csw•ｃomd such a frown

Thy King and Lord? Back to thy punishment,

Thy lingring, or with one stroke of this Dart

False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings, [ 700 ]

Who first broke peace in Heavn and Faith, till then [ 690 ]

What ere his wrath, which he calls Justice, bids,

With horrid strides, Hell trembled as he strode.

Hell-born, not to contend with Spirits of Heavn.

That be assured, without leave askt of thee: [ 685 ]

To waste Eternal dayes in woe and phttps://rｅaｄ•９９cｓｗ.ｃomain? [ 695 ]

Th undaunted Fiend what this might be admird,

For never but once more was either like

The Monster moving onward came as fast [ 675 ]

Retire, or taste thy folly, and learn by proof,

Grew darker at thir frown, so matcht they stood; [ 720 ]

Where I reign King, and to enrage thee more,

Art thou that Traitor Angel, art thou hee,

Leveld his deadly aime; thir fatall hands

Hovring a space, till Winds the signal blow

Fast by Hell Gate, and kept the htｔps://ｒeaｄ.９9cｓｗ.coｍfatal Key, [ 725 ]

Possesses thee to bend that mortal Dart

Unbrokn, and in proud rebellious Arms

Whence and what art thou, execrable shape,

Created thing naught valud he nor shund

Hell-doomd, and breathst defiance here and scorn

Against thy Fathers head? and knowst for whom; [ 730 ]

And with disdainful look thus first began. [ 680 ]

Admird, not feard; God and his Son except,

Conjurd against the highest, for which both Thou

Incenst with indignation Satan stood

Unt九*九*藏*書errifid, and like a Comet burnd,

That fires the length of Ophiucus huge

Against thy only Son? What fury O Son,

Risn, and with hideous outcry rushd between.

Satan was now at hand, and from his seat

To yonder Gates? through them I mean to pass,

That darst, though grim and terrible, advance

And recknst thou thy self with Spirits of Heavn,

And they outcast from God, are here condemnd

To whom the Goblin full of wrauth replyd,

With Heavns Artillery fraught, come rattling on [ 715 ]