This knows my puherefore as farr
From granting hee, as I from begging peace:
All hope excluded thus, behold in stead [ 105 ]
Of us out-cast, exild, his new delight,
Mankind created, and for him this World.
So farewel Hope, and with Hope farewel Fear,
Farewel Remorse: all Good to me is lost;
Evil be thou my Good; by thee at least [ 110 ]
Divided Empire with Heavns King I hold
By thee, and more then half perhaps will reigne;
As Man ere long, and this new World shall know.
Thus while he spake, each passion dimmd his face
Thrice gd with pale, ire, envie and despair, [ 115 ]
Which marrd his borrowd visage, araid
Him terfet, if any eye beheld.
For heavnly mindes from such distempers foule
Are ever cleer. Whereof hee soon aware,
Each perturbation smoothd with outward calme, [ 120 ]
Artificer of fraud; and was the first
That practisd falshood under saintly shew,
Deep malice to ceale, coucht with revenge:
Yet not anough had practisd to deceive
Uriel once warnd; whose eye pursud him down [ 125 ]
The way he went, and on th Assyrian mount
Saw him disfigurd, more then could befall
Spirit of happie sort: his gestures fierce
He markd and mad demeanour, then alone,
As he supposd all unobservd, unseen. [ 130 ]
So on he fares, and to the border es
Of Eden, where delicious Paradise,
Now nearer, s with her enclreen,
As with a rural mound the champain head
Of a steep wilderness, whose hairie sides [ 135 ]
With thicket rown, grottesque and wilde,
Access denid; and over head up grew
Insuperable highth of loftiest shade,
Cedar, and Pine, and Firr, and brang Palm
A Silvan Se, and as the ranks asd [ 140 ]
Shade above shade, a woodie Theatre
Of stateliest view. Yet higher then thir tops
The verdurous wall of paradise up sprung:
Which teneral Sire gave prospect large
Into his her Empire neighb round. [ 145 ]