Page:Paradise Lost (1667).djvu/112

Book 4.  Disdain forbids me, and my dread of hame Among the pirits beneath, whom I educ'd With other promies and other vaunts Then to ubmit, boating I could ubdue Th' Omnipotent. Ay me, they little know How dearly I abide that boat o vaine, Under what torments inwardly I groane; While they adore me on the Throne of Hell, 80 With Diadem and Scepter high advanc'd The lower till I fall, onely Supream In mierie; uch joy Ambition findes. But ay I could repent and could obtaine By Act of Grace my former tate; how oon Would highth recal high thoughts, how oon unay What feign d ubmiion wore: eae would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. For never can true reconcilement grow deep: Where wounds of deadly hate have peirc'd o I 90 Which would but lead me to a wore relape, And heavier fall: o hould I purchae deare Short intermiion bought with double mart. This knows my puniher; therefore as farr From granting hee, as I from begging peace: All hope excluded thus, behold in tead Of us out-cat, exil'd, his new delight, Mankind created, and for him this World. So farwel Hope, and with Hope farwel Fear, Farwel Remore: all Good to me is lot; 100 Evil be thou my Good; by thee at leat Divided Empire with Heav'ns King I hold By thee, and more then half perhaps will reigne; As Man ere long, and this new World hall know.