See with what heat these Dogs of Hell advance
To waste and havoder World, which I
So fair and good created, and had still
Kept in that State, had not the folly of Man
Let in these wastful Furies, who impute [ 620 ]
Folly to mee, so doth the Prince of Hell
And his Adherents, that with so much ease
I suffer them to enter and possess
A place so heavnly, and iving seem
To gratifie my sful Enemies, [ 625 ]
That laugh, as if transported with some fit
Of Passion, I to them had quitted all,
At random yielded up to their misrule;
And know not that I calld and drew them thither
My Hell-hounds, to lick up the draff and filth [ 630 ]
Which mans polluting Sin with taint hath shed
On what ure, till crammd and gd, nigh burst
With suckt and glutted offal, at one sling
Of thy victorious Arm, well-pleasing Son,
Both Sin, ah, and yawning Grave at last [ 635 ]
Through Chaos hurld, obstruct the mouth of Hell
For ever, and seal up his ravenous Jawes.
Then Heavn ah renewd shall be made pure
To sanctitie that shall receive no staine:
Till then the Curse pronoun both precedes. [ 640 ]
He ended, and the Heavnly Audience loud
Sung Halleluia, as the sound of Seas,
Through multitude that sung: Just are thy ways,
Righteous are thy Decrees on all thy Works;
Who extehee? , to the Son, [ 645 ]
Destiorer of Mankind, by whom
New Heavn ah shall to the Ages rise,
Or down from Heavn desd. Such was thir song,
While the Creator calling forth by name
His mightie Angels gave them several charge, [ 650 ]
As sorted best with present things. The Sun
Had first his precept so to move, so shine,
As might affect the Earth with cold a
Scarce tollerable, and from the North to call
Decrepit Winter, from the South t [ 655 ]
Solstitial summers heat. To the blanc Moone
Her office they prescribd, to th other five
Thir plaarie motions and aspects
Iile, Square, and Trine, and Opposite,
Of noxious efficacie, and when to joyne [ 660 ]
In Synod unbenigne, and taught the fixt
Thir influence malignant when to showre,
Which of them rising with the Sun, or falling,
Should prove tempestuous: To the Winds they set
Thir ers, when with bluster to found [ 665 ]
Sea, Aire, and Shoar, the Thunder when to rowle
With terror through the dark Aereal Hall.