others apart sat on a hill retird;
in thoughts more elevate; and reasond high
of providence; foreknowledge; will and fate;
fixt fate; free will; foreknowledg absolute; ' 560 '
and found no end; in wandring mazes lost。
of good and evil much they argud then;
of happiness and final misery;
passion and apathie; and glory and shame;
vain wisdom all; and false philosophie: ' 565 '
yet with a pleasing sorcerie could charm
pain for a while or anguish; and excite
fallacious hope; or arm th obdured brest
with stubborn patience as with triple steel。
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another part in squadrons and gross bands; ' 570 '
on bold adventure to discover wide
that dismal world; if any clime perhaps
might yield them easier habitation; bend
four ways thir flying march; along the banks
of four infernal rivers that disgorge ' 575 '
into the burning lake thir baleful streams;
abhorred styx the flood of deadly hate;
sad acheron of sorrow; black and deep;
cocytus; namd of lamentation loud
heard on the ruful stream; fierce phlegeton ' 580 '
whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage。
farr off from these a slow and silent stream;
lethe the river of oblivion roules
her watrie labyrinth; whereof who drinks;
forthwith his former state and being forgets; ' 585 '
forgets both joy and grief; pleasure and pain。
beyond this flood a frozen continent
lies dark and wilde; beat with perpetual storms
of whirlwind and dire hail; which on firm land
thaws not; but gathers heap; and ruin seems ' 590 '
of ancient pile; all else deep snow and ice;
a gulf profound as that serbonian bog
betwixt damiata and mount casius old;
where armies whole have sunk: the parching air
burns frore; and cold performs th effect of fire。 ' 595 '
thither by harpy…footed furies haild;
at certain revolutions all the damnd
are brought: and feel by turns the bitter change
of fierce extreams; extreams by change more fierce;
from beds of raging fire to starve in ice ' 600 '
thir soft ethereal warmth; and there to pine
immovable; infixt; and frozen round;
periods of time; thence hurried back to fire。
they ferry over this lethean sound
both to and fro; thir sorrow to augment; ' 605 '
and wish and struggle; as they pass; to reach
the tempting stream; with one small drop to loose
in sweet forgetfulness all pain and woe;
all in one moment; and so neer the brink;
but fate withstands; and to oppose th attempt ' 610 '
medusa with gorgonian terror guards
the ford; and of it self the water flies
all taste of living wight; as once it fled
the lip of tantalus。 thus roving on
in confusd march forlorn; th adventrous bands ' 615 '
with shuddring horror pale; and eyes agast
viewd first thir lamentable lot; and found
no rest: through many a dark and drearie vaile
they passd; and many a region dolorous;
oer many a frozen; many a fierie alpe; ' 620 '
rocks; caves; lakes; fens; bogs; dens; and shades of death;
a universe of death; which god by curse
created evil; for evil only good;
where all life dies; death lives; and nature breeds;
perverse; all monstrous; all prodigious things; ' 625 '
abominable; inutterable; and worse
then fables yet have feignd; or fear conceivd;
gorgons and hydras; and chimeras dire。
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mean while the adversary of god and man;
satan with thoughts inflamd of highest design; ' 630 '
puts on swift wings; and towards the gates of hell
explores his solitary flight; som times
he scours the right hand coast; som times the left;
now shaves with level wing the deep; then soares
up to the fiery concave touring high。 ' 635 '
as when farr off at sea a fleet descrid
hangs in the clouds; by ?quinoctial winds
close sailing from bengala; or the iles
of ternate and tidore; whence merchants bring
thir spicie drugs: they on the trading flood ' 640 '
through the wide ethiopian to the cape
ply stemming nightly toward the pole。 so seemd
farr off the flying fiend: at last appeer
hell bounds high reaching to the horrid roof;
and thrice threefold the gates; three folds were brass; ' 645 '
three iron; three of adamantine rock;
impenetrable; impald with circling fire;
yet unconsumd。 before the gates there sat
on either side a formidable shape;
the one seemd woman to the waste; and fair; ' 650 '
but ended foul in many a scaly fould
voluminous and vast; a serpent armd
with mortal sting: about her middle round
a cry of hell hounds never ceasing barkd
with wide cerberian mouths full loud; and rung ' 655 '
a hideous peal: yet; when they list; would creep;
if aught disturbd thir noyse; into her woomb;
and kennel there; yet there still barkd and howld
within unseen。 farr less abhorrd than these
vexd scylla bathing in the sea that parts ' 660 '
calabria from the hoarse trinacrian shore:
nor uglier follow the night…hag; when calld
in secret; riding through the air she es
lurd with the smell of infant blood; to dance
with lapland witches; while the labouring moon ' 665 '
eclipses at thir charms。 the other shape;
if shape it might be calld that shape had none
distinguishable in member; joynt; or limb;
or substance might be calld that shadow seemd;
for each seemd either; black it stood as night; ' 670 '
fierce as ten furies; terrible as hell;
and shook a dreadful dart; what seemd his head
the likeness of a kingly crown had on。
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satan was now at hand; and from his seat
the monster moving onward came as fast ' 675 '
with horrid strides; hell trembled as he strode。
th undaunted fiend what this might be admird;
admird; not feard; god and his son except;
created thing naught valud he nor shund
and with disdainful look thus first began。 ' 680 '
whence and what art thou; execrable shape;
that darst; though grim and terrible; advance
thy miscreated front athwart my way
to yonder gates? through them i mean to pass;
that be assured; without leave askt of thee: ' 685 '
retire; or taste thy folly; and learn by proof;
hell…born; not to contend with spirits of heavn。
to whom the goblin full of wrauth replyd;
art thou that traitor angel; art thou hee;
who first broke peace in heavn and faith; till then ' 690 '
unbrokn; and in proud rebellious arms
drew after him the third part of heavns sons
conjurd against the highest; for which both thou
and they outcast from god; are here condemnd
to waste eternal dayes in woe and pain? ' 695 '
and recknst thou thy self with spirits of heavn;
hell…doomd; and breathst defiance here and scorn
where i reign king; and to enrage thee more;
thy king and lord? back to thy punishment;
false fugitive; and to thy speed add wings; ' 700 '
least with a whip of scorpions i pursue
thy lingring; or with one stroke of this dart
strange horror seise thee; and pangs unfelt before。
so spake the grieslie terror; and in shape;
so speaking and so threatning; grew tenfold ' 705 '
more dreadful and deform: on th other side
incenst with indignation satan stood
unterrifid; and like a et burnd;
that fires the length of ophiucus huge
in th artick sky; and from his horrid hair ' 710 '
shakes pestilence and warr。 each at the head
leveld his deadly aime; thir fatall hands
no second stroke intend; and such a frown
each cast at th other; as when two black clouds
with heavns artillery fraught; e rattling on ' 715 '
over the caspian; then stand front to front
hovring a space; till winds the signal blow
to join thir dark encounter in mid air:
so frownd the mighty batants; that hell
grew darker at thir frown; so matcht they stood; ' 720 '
for never but once more was either like
to meet so great a foe: and now great deeds
had been achievd; whereof all hell had rung;
had not the snakie sorceress that sat
fast by hell gate; and kept the fatal key; ' 725 '
risn; and with hideous outcry rushd between。
o father; what intends thy hand; she cryd;
against thy only son? what fury o son;
possesses thee to bend that mortal dart
against thy fathers head? and knowst for whom; ' 730 '
for him who sits above and laughs the while
at thee ordaind his drudge; to execute
what ere his wrath; which he calls justice; bids;
his wrath which one day will destroy ye both。
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she spake; and at her words the hellish pest ' 735 '
forbore; then these to her satan returnd:
so strange thy outcry; and thy words so strange
thou interposest; that my sudden hand
prevented spares to tell thee yet by deeds
what it intends; till first i know of thee; ' 740 '
what thing thou art; thus double…formd; and why
in this infernal vaile first met thou callst
me father; and that fantasm callst my son?
i know thee not; nor ever saw till now
sight more detestable then him and thee。 ' 745 '
t whom thus the portress of hell gate replyd;
hast thou forgot me then; and do i seem
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