Subjected to his service Angel wings, [ 155 ]

    And flaming Ministers to cend

    the vigilance

    I dread, and to elude, t in mist

    Of midnight vapor glide obscure, and prie

    In every Bush and Brake, where hap may finde [ 160 ]

    t sleeping, in whose mazie foulds

    to ent I bring.

    O foul descent! t I ended

    ito sit t, am noraind

    Into a Beast, and mixt ial slime, [ 165 ]

    to incarnate and imbrute,

    t to t of Deitie aspird;

    But  Ambition and Revenge

    Descend to? w down as low

    As  or last [ 170 ]

    to basest t first t,

    Bitter ere long back on it self recoiles;

    Let it; I reck not, so it light well aimd,

    Since , on

    Provokes my envie, te [ 175 ]

    Of e,

    o spite his Maker raisd

    From dust: spite te is best repaid.

    So saying, t Danck or Drie,

    Like a black mist low creeping, he held on [ 180 ]

    searc  finde

    t:  sleeping soon he found

    In Labyrinth of many a round self-rowld,

    , ord tle wiles:

    Not yet in horrid Shade or dismal Den, [ 185 ]

    Nor nocent yet, but on the grassie herbe

    Fearless unfeard : in at h

    terd, and al sense,

    In  or head, possessing soon inspird

    it intelligential; but his sleep [ 190 ]

    Disturbd not, ing close th approach of Morn.

    Noo dawne

    In Eden on t breathd

    t breath,

    From t Altar send up silent praise [ 195 ]

    to tor, and rils fill

    iteful Smell, forthe human pair

    And joind to the Quire

    Of Creatures ing voice, t done, partake

    test Sents and Aires: [ 200 ]

    t day t may ply

    tgrew

    tcwo Gardning so wide.

    And Eve first to hus began.