If your joynt power prevailes, th affaires of Hell
riment need feare, goe arong.
So saying he dismissd them, they with speed [ 410 ]
Thir course through thickest stellations held
Spreading thir bahe blasted Starrs lookt wan,
And Plas, Plarook, real Eclips
Then sufferd. Th other way Sata down
The Causey to Hell Gate; oher side [ 415 ]
Disparted Chaos over built exclaimd,
And with rebounding surge the barrs assaild,
That sd his indignation: through the Gate,
Wide open and unguarded, Satan passd,
And all about found desolate; for those [ 420 ]
Appoio sit there, had left thir charge,
Flown to the upper World; the rest were all
Farr to the inlaird, about the walls
Of Pandæmonium, Citie and proud seate
Of Lucifer, so by allusion calld, [ 425 ]
Of that bright Starr to Satan paragond.
There kept thir Watch the Legions, while the Grand
In cil sate, sollicitous what ce
Might intercept thir Emperour sent, so hee
Departing gave and, and they observd. [ 430 ]
As wheartar from his Russian Foe
By Astra over the Snowie Plaines
Retires, or Bactrian Sophi from the hornes
Of Turkish Crest, leaves all waste beyond
The Realm of Aladule, in his retreate [ 435 ]
To Tauris or Casbeen. So these the late
Heavn-banisht Host, left desert utmost Hell
Many a dark League, redu careful Watch
Round thir Metropolis, and now expeg
Each hour thir great adventurer from the search [ 440 ]
Of Forrein Worlds: he through the midst unmarkt,
In shew Plebeian Angel militant
Of lowest order, past; and from the dore
Of that Plutonian Hall, invisible
Asded his high Throne, whider state [ 445 ]
Of richest texture spred, at th upper end
la regal lustre. Down a while
He sate, and round about him saw unseen:
At last as from a Cloud his fulgent head
And shape Starr bright appeerd, hter, clad [ 450 ]
With ermissive glory since his fall
Was left him, or false glitter: All amazd
At that so sudden blaze the Stygian throng
Bent thir aspect, and whom they wishd beheld,
Thir mighty Chief returnd: loud was th acclaime: [ 455 ]
Forth rushd in haste the great sulting Peers,
Raisd from thir dark Divan, and with like joy
gratulant approachd him, who with hand
Silence, and with these words attention won.