Denique enim fies, exortus pulvere, pulvis.

Dixerat hoc, judex idem & ftator æthere missus,
Jus homini; & mortem, quam indixerat ocius iftâ
Luce fecuturam, dimovit longius ictum.

Tum coram nudos & inermes membra mifertus,
Mox ita mutandi quibus inclementia cœli
Obfuerit, jam nunc facilis fervilibus ultro
Incipit officiis famulique affuefcere formæ.
Quoque pedes multis pofthac volventibus annis
Difcipulis lavit ftudio; nunc vefte carentes,
Ceu Pater amplectens fobolem carofque penates,
Induit aut pecudum cæfarum pellibus, aut quæ
Jam pofitis colubræ in morem nituere recentes
Exuviis: tegere immeritos dignatur & hoftes.
Nec non & puro nudas velamine mentes,
Quò minùs omnipotens Genitor deforme videret
Opprobrium, decoratque fuæ integritatis amictu.
Tum celeri afcenfu correptus in aftra, paterni

For duft thou art, and fhalt to duft return.

So judg'd he man, both Judge, and Savior fent; And th' inftant ftroke of death denounc'd that day,

Remov'd far off: then pitying how they stood
Before him naked to the air, (that now
Muft fuffer change) disdain'd not to begin
Thenceforth the form of fervant to affume:
As when he wash'd his servants' feet; so now

As father of his family, he clad
Their nakedness with skins of beasts; or flain,
Or, as the fnake, with youthful coat re-paid:
And thought not much to clothe his enemies.
Nor he their outward only, with the skins
Of beasts; but inward nakedness (much more
Opprobrious!) with his robe of righteousness
Arraying, cover'd from his Father's fight,

Gaudia læta finûs folito fplendore revisit;

Placatoque Patri narrat, licet omnia nôrit,

Qualibus ipfe modis hominem tractârat, & ultro
Sollicitat veniam ac precibus demulcet amicis.

Intereà, prius hæc terris quàm admiffa, fuperque
Hæc mæftis decreta reis, intra oftia averni
Frontibus adverfis Hades & federat Ate.
Oftia jamdudum fteterant patefacta, feroces
Triste Chaûs procul in gremium eructantia flammas,
Ex quo tartareus rex deinde abfcefferat, Ate
Expandente aditus. Tum dictis talibus Haden
Illa fuum aggreditur: quianam fic, nate, fedemus
Ignavâ lenti requie, fic ora morantes

Alter in alterius; noftrûm dum maximus auctor
Aufpiciis alios Satanas felicibus orbes

Rimatur, fedesque novas melioraque caris
Ex fe progenitis regna afferit? ille benignis
Ni fatis frueretur, ad hæc jam littora pridem

To him with fwift afcent he up return'd,
Into his blisful bofom re-affum'd

In glory, as of old; to him appeas'd,
All, tho' all-knowing, what had past with man
Recounted, mixing interceffion sweet.

Mean-while, e'er thus was fin'd and judg'd on
earth,

Within the gates of hell fat fin, and death,

In counter view within the gates, that now

Stood open wide, belching outragious flame
Far into Chaos, fince the fiend pass'd through,
Sin op'ning: who thus now to death began:

O fon, why fit we here, each other viewing
Idly, while Satan, our great author, thrives
In other worlds, and happier feat provides
For us, his off-fpring dear? it cannot be
But that fuccefs attends him: if mis-hap,

facultas

Agminis invidiâ ultricis furiifque repulfus
Deciderat ; namque hæc fedes magis omnibus una
Suppliciis Satanæ, atque illorum convenit iris.
Jam videor sentire novum per corda vigorem,
Nafcentesque alas; videor trans alta videre
Ingens extendi imperium. At quæcunque
Intus agit, cognata potens adeò impete cæco
Pectora, fint quanquam fpatiis divifa remotis,
Attrahere, & miro naturæ innectere vinclo;
Quæ virtus me cunque rapit, tu certa fequeris,
Umbra, comes; vis nulla Aten divulferit Hade.
Neve hæc ftagna labor remeandi impervia durus
Abrumpat reditus, tentabimus ante pericli
Plenum opus, at noftræ superandum viribus artis、
Conemur fundare aditus fuper æquora latos
Indomita, ad mundum stygiâ de sede recentem,
Quà vicit Satanas; monumenta infignia famæ

E'er this he had return'd, with fury driv'n
By his avengers; fince no place like this
Can fit his punishment, or their revenge.
Methinks I feel new strength within me rise,
Wings growing, and dominion giv'n me large,
Beyond this deep: whatever draws me on,
Or fympathy, or fome connat'ral force,
Pow'rful at greatest distance to unite
With fecret amity things of like kind,
By fecreteft conveyance. Thou, my shade

Infeparable, muft with me along;
For, death from fin no pow'r can separate.
But leaft the difficulty of paffing back
Stay his return perhaps over this gulf
Impaffable, impervious; let us try
Advent'rous work; yet to thy pow'r and mine
Not un-agreeable, to found a path
new world,
Over this main, from hell to that
Where Satan now prevails; a monument

Tartarei

Tartarei recinent populi, quêis prona patebit
Semita, feu juvet alternos tranfmittere curfus,
Seu migrare novas, fi fors ita jufferit, oras.
Me via nec fugiet; tantâ virtute recentis
Impulsûs trahit intus agens miranda poteftas.

Cui fœdâ horrefcens macie fic rettulit Umbra
Te tua fors quocunque rapit, quocunque libido,
Vade age, nufquam abero; nec, te duce, femita fallet.
Quin carnis me ducit odor, prædæque cupido

Incitat innumeræ; nam terris omnia mortis
Suavius exhalant etiamnum viva faporem:
Ipfa etiam ingenti, cui tute accingeris, aufo
Sufficiam viresque meas animofque fecundos.

Sic memorans, avido bibit aera lætior hauftu
Lethiferum, terris inhians. Ceu denfa volucrum
Prædantum cum turba rapax, quà bellicus ardor
Explicuit campis ventura in prælia turmas,

Of merit high to all th' infernal hoft;
Eafing their paffage hence, for intercourse,
Or tranfmigration, as their lot fhall lead.
-Nor can I mifs the way, so strongly drawn
By this new-felt attraction, and instinct.
Whom thus the meagre fhadow answer'd soon :
Go, whither fate and inclination strong
Leads thee; I fhall not lag behind, nor err
The way, thou leading: fuch a fcent I draw

Of carnage, prey innumerable, and tafte
The favor of death from all things there that

live:

Nor fhall I to the work thou enterprisest
Be wanting, but afford thee equal aid.

So faying, with delight he fnuff'd the smell
Of mortal change on earth. As when a flock
Of ravenous fowl, tho' many a league remote,
Against the day of battle, to a field

Se longè agglomerant, acrique cupidine carnis
Faucibus expectant jam viva cadavera ficcis,
Cras cædi miferæ et letho devota cruento.
Haud aliter prædæ dulces abfentis odores
Funeftâ de fede trahit deformis Imago,
Naribus infectum patulis procul aera captans.
Ambo erebi ex portis digreffi, deinde frementis
Regna in opaca Chaûs, humentia, fœta procellis,
Diverfi fugere; undas fuper impete magno
(Impete nam valuere) levatâ fortiter alâ
Sufpenfi, latè & folida & vifcofa, furentes
Obvia per fluctus, cumulant fimul omnia denfis
Molibus, ad ftygias hinc inde coercita fauces.
Ut gemini abrupto fi quondam turbine venti
Vexârint Cronium adverfis ex partibus æquor,
Convolvunt glaciem in rigidos denfo aggere montes,
Impediuntque aditus trans Moscovitica regna

Where armies lie encamp'd, come flying, lur'd
With scent of living carcaffes, defign'd
For death the following day, in bloody fight:
So fcented the grim feature, and up-turn'd
His noftrils wide into the murky air;
Sagacious of his quarry from so far.
Then both from out hell-gates, into the waste
Wide anarchy of Chaos, damp and dark,

Flew diverse; and with pow'r (their pow'r was
great)

Hovering upon the waters, what they met
Solid, or flimy, as in raging fea
Toft up and down, together crowded drove,
From each fide shoaling tow'rds the mouth of

hell.

As when two polar winds, blowing adverfe
Upon the Cronian fea, together drive
Mountains of ice, that ftop th' imagin'd way
Beyond Petzora eaftward to the rich