Long after knoine, and namd [ 80 ]

    Beelzebub. to wh Arch-Enemy,

    And tan, h bold words

    Breaking thus began.

    If t  O how falln! how changd

    From  [ 85 ]

    Clotranscendent brig out-shine

    Myriads t: If ual league,

    United ts and counsels, equal hope

    And erprize,

    Joynd h joynd [ 90 ]

    In equal ruin: into  t

    From w ronger provd

    ill then who knew

    t not for those,

    Nor ent Victor in his rage [ 95 ]

    Can else inflict, do I repent or change,

    tre; t fixt mind

    And ,

    t iest raisd me to contend,

    And to tention brought along [ 100 ]

    Innumerable force of Spirits armd

    t durst dislike his reign, and me preferring,

    most poh adverse power opposd

    In dubious Battel on the Plains of heavn,

    And s t? [ 105 ]

    All is not lost; the unconquerable ill,

    And study of revenge, immortal e,

    And courage never to submit or yield:

    And  to be overcome?

    t Glory never s [ 110 ]

    Extort from me. to bow and sue for grace

    it knee, and deifie his power,

    errour of te

    Doubted  were low indeed,

    t were an ignominy and sh [ 115 ]

    te trength of Gods

    And tance cannot fail,