All on a sudden miserable pain

(For what could else) to our Almighty Foe

I know thee not, nor ever saw till now

Of all the Seraphim with thee combind [ 750 ]

I fled, but he pursud (though more, it seems, [ 790 ]

Thy self in me thy perfect image viewing

Mee overtook his mother all dismaid,

And hourly born, with sorrow infinite

Sight more detestable then him and thee. [ 745 ]

Me Father, and that Fantasm callst my Son?

A fresh with conscious terrours vex me round,

Through all the Empyrean: down they 九*九*藏*書fell

At last this odious offspring whom thou seest

Transformd: but he my inbred enemie [ 785 ]

What thing thou art, thus double-formd, and why

Made to destroy: I fled, and cryd out Death;

Distorted, all my nether shape thus grew

Now in thine eye so foul, once deemd so fair

And in embraces forcible and foule

She spake, and at her words the hellish Pest [ 735 ]

These Gates for ever shut, which none can pass

Cleer Victory, to our part loss and rout [ 770 ]

Surprisd thee, dim thine eyes, an九-九-藏-書d dizzie swumm

Becamst enamourd, and such joy thou tookst [ 765 ]

Alone, but long I sat not, till my womb

In this infernal Vaile first met thou callst

So strange thy outcry, and thy words so strange

Without my opning. Pensive here I sat

All th Host of Heavn back they recoild affraid

With me in secret, that my womb conceivd

Forbore, then these to her Satan returnd:

Threw forth, till on the left side opning wide, [ 755 ]

What it intends; till first I know of thee, [ 740 ]

Thine own begotten, bｈtｔps://read.９9ｃｓｗ•ｃｏmreaking violent way

Tore through my entrails, that with fear and pain

That rest or intermission none I find.

Into this Deep, and in the general fall

Forth issud, brandishing his fatal Dart

Thou interposest, that my sudden hand

Ingendring with me, of that rape begot

Inflamd with lust then rage) and swifter far,

To me, for when they list into the womb

Drivn headlong from the Pitch of Heaven, down

Then shining Heavnly fair, a Goddess armd

Into my hand was givn, with charge to keep [ 755 ]

These https://read.99csw.comyelling Monsters that with ceasless cry [ 795 ]

And fields were fought in Heavn; wherein remaind

That bred them they return, and howle and gnaw

In darkness, while thy head flames thick and fast

Surround me, as thou sawst, hourly conceivd

Hast thou forgot me then, and do I seem

In Heavn, when at th Assembly, and in sight

I also; at which time this powerful Key

I pleasd, and with attractive graces won

Hell trembld at the hideous Name, and sighd

Likest to thee in shape and countnance bright,

Portentous heldｒeａd.9９ｃsw.ｃｏm me; but familiar grown,

Out of thy head I sprung; amazement seisd

The most averse, thee chiefly, who full oft

My Bowels, thir repast; then bursting forth [ 800 ]

A growing burden. Mean while Warr arose,

In bold conspiracy against Heavns King,

Prevented spares to tell thee yet by deeds

At first, and calld me Sin, and for a Sign [ 760 ]

Pregnant by thee, and now excessive grown

T whom thus the Portress of Hell Gate replyd;

Prodigious motion felt and rueful throes. [ 780 ]

From all her Caves, and back resounded Death.