No homely morfels! and whatever thing 605 The fcithe of Time mowes down, devour unIpar'd: Till I in man refiding, through the race, His thoughts, his looks, words, actions all infect; And season him thy last and sweetest prey. This faid, they both betook them several ways, 610 Both to destroy, or unimmortal make. voice. 615 See, with what heat thefe dogs of hell advance To waste and havock yonder world, which I So fair and good created; and had still A place fo heav'nly, and conniving feem 625 That laugh, as if, transported with some fit, And know not, that I call'd and drew them thither, My hell-hounds, to lick up the draff and filth, 630 Which man's polluting fin with taint hath shed On what was pure, till cramm'd and gorg'd, nigh burft, With fuck'd and glutted offal, at one fling To fanctity, that fhall receive no ftain: Till then the curfe pronounc'd on both pre He ended, and the heav'nly audience loud Sung Hallelujah, as the found of feas, Through multitude that fung',,Juft are thy ways, ,,Righteous are thy decrees on all thy works; ,,Who can extenuate Thee? Son, next, to the 645 ,,Deftind reftorer of mankind, by whom ,,New heav'n and earth fhall to the ages rife, 1 دو ,,Or down from Heav'n defcend." Such was their fong, While the Creator calling forth by name His mighty Angels, gave them feveral 650 charge, As forted beft with prefent things. The Sun Decrepit Winter; from the fouth to bring, 655 Her office they prefcrib'd; to th' other five Their planetary motions and aspects In Sextile, Square, and Trine, and Oppofite, Of noxious efficacy; and when to join 660 In fynod unbenign: and thaught the fix'd Their influence malignant when to show'r, Which of them rifing with the Sun, or fal Sea, air, and fhore: the thunder when to roll With terror through the dark aereal hall. The Poles of earth twice ten degrees and more From the Sun's axlc; they with labor pufh'd 670 Oblique the centric globe: fome say, the Sun amain thence down By Leo and the Virgin and the Scales, 675 As deep as Capricorn, to bring in change Equal in days and nights, except to those 680 Like change on fea and land; fideral blaft, Corrupt and peftilent! Now from the North 695 Of Norumbega, and the Samoed shore, Bursting their brazen dungeon, arm'd with ice And fnow and hail and stormy guft and flaw, Boreas and Caecias and Argeftes loud And Thrafcias rend the woods and feas up With adverse blast upturns them from the fouth Notus and Afer black with thundrous clouds Outrage from lifelefs things: but Discordfirst, And fifh with fifh: 1 · Devour'd each other; to graze the herb all leaving, nor ftood much in awe Of man, but fled him, or with count'nance grim Glar'd on him paffing. These were from without The growing miferies, which Adam faw 715 Already in part, though hid in gloomiest shade, |