Thrones, Dominations, Prins, Vertues, Powers, [ 460 ]
For in possession suot onely ht,
I call ye and declare ye now, returnd
Successful beyond hope, to lead ye forth
Triumphant out of this infernal Pit
Abominable, accurst, the house of woe, [ 465 ]
And Dungeon of our Tyrant: Now possess,
As Lords, a spacious World, to our native Heaven
Little inferiour, by my adventure hard
With peril great atchievd. Loo tell
What I have don, what sufferd, with aine [ 470 ]
Voyagd th unreal, vast, unbounded deep
Of horrible fusion, over which
By Sin ah a broad way now is pavd
To expedite ylorious march; but I
Toild out my uncouth passage, forct to ride [ 475 ]
Th untractable Abysse, plungd in the womb
Of uninal Night and Chaos wilde,
That jealous of thir secrets fiercely opposd
My jourrange, with clamorous uproare
Protesting Fate supreame; thence how I found [ 480 ]
The new created World, which fame in Heavn
Long had foretold, a Fabrick wonderful
Of absolute perfe, therein Man
Pla a Paradise, by our exile
Made happie: Him by fraud I have seducd [ 485 ]
From his Creator, and the more to increase
Your wonder, with an Apple; he thereat
Offended, worth your laughter, hath givn up
Both his beloved Man and all his World,
To Sin ah a prey, and so to us, [ 490 ]
Without our hazard, labour, or allarme,
Te in, and to dwell, and over Man
To rule, as over all he should have ruld.
True is, mee also he hath judgd, or rather
Mee not, but the brute Serpent in whose shape [ 495 ]
Man I deceavd: that whiee belongs,
Is enmity, which he will put between
Mee and Mankinde; I am to bruise his heel;
His Seed, when is not set, shall bruise my head:
A World who would not purchase with a bruise, [ 500 ]
Or much mrievous pain? Ye have th at
Of my performance: What remains, ye Gods,
But up aer now into full bliss.