If your joynt poh affaires of hell

    No detriment need feare, goe and be strong.

    So saying h speed [ 410 ]

    t Constellations held

    Spreading ted Starrs lookt wan,

    And Planets, Planet-strook, real Eclips

    tan  down

    to e; on either side [ 415 ]

    Disparted C exclaimd,

    And he barrs assaild,

    t scornd ion: te,

    ide open and unguarded, Satan passd,

    And all about found desolate; for those [ 420 ]

    Appointed to sit t thir charge,

    Floo t were all

    Farr to tird, about the walls

    Of Pand?monium, Citie and proud seate

    Of Lucifer, so by allusion calld, [ 425 ]

    Of t brigarr to Satan paragond.

    t tche Grand

    In Council sate, sollicitous w chance

    Migercept t, so hee

    Departing gave command, and they observd. [ 430 ]

    As ar from his Russian Foe

    By Astracan over the Snowie Plaines

    Retires, or Bactrian Sophe hornes

    Of turkis, leaves all e beyond

    treate [ 435 ]

    to tauris or Casbeen. So te

    , left desert utmost hell

    Many a dark League, reduct in careful atch

    Round tropolis, and noing

    Eac adventurer from the search [ 440 ]

    Of Forrein orlds:  unmarkt,

    In sant

    Of lo order, past; and from the dore

    Of t Plutonian hall, invisible

    Ascended ate [ 445 ]

    Of ric texture spred, at th upper end

    as plact in regal lustre. Down a while

    e, and round about him saw unseen:

    At last as from a Cloud  head

    And sarr briger, clad [ 450 ]

    it permissive glory since his fall

    as left ter: All amazd

    At t so sudden blaze tygian throng

    Bent t, and whey wishd beheld,

    ty Curnd: loud h acclaime: [ 455 ]

    Forte t consulting Peers,

    Raisd from th like joy

    Congratulant approach hand

    Silence, and tention won.