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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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