Long after known in Palestine, and namd [ 80 ]
Beelzebub. To whom th Aremy,
And then Heavn calld Satan, with bold words
Breaking the horrid silehus began.
If thou beest he; But O how falln! how gd
From him, who in the happy Realms of Light [ 85 ]
Clothd with transdent brightness didst out-shine
Myriads though bright: If he Whom mutual league,
Uhoughts and sels, equal hope
And hazard in the Glorious Enterprize,
Joynd with me onow misery hath joynd [ 90 ]
In equal ruin: into it thou seest
From what highth falln, so much the stronger provd
He with his Thunder: and till then who knew
The force of those dire Arms? yet not for those,
Nor what the Potent Victor in his rage [ 95 ]
else inflict, do I repent or ge,
Though gd in outward lustre; that fixt mind
And high disdain, from sence of injurd merit,
That with the mightiest raisd me to tend,
And to the fierce tentiht along [ 100 ]
Innumerable force of Spirits armd
That durst dislike his reign, and me preferring,
His utmost power with adverse power opposd
In dubious Battel on the Plains of Heavn,
And shook his throne. What though the field be lost? [ 105 ]
All is not lost; the unquerable Will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And ce o submit or yield:
And what is else not to be overe?
That Glory never shall his wrath ht [ 110 ]
Extort from me. To bow and sue frace
With suppliant knee, and deifie his power,
Who from the terrour of this Arm so late
Doubted his Empire, that were low indeed,
That were an ignominy and shame beh [ 115 ]
This downfall; since by Fate the strength of Gods
And this Empyreal substance ot fail,