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Rh  In darknes, while thy head flames thick and fat Threw forth, till on the left ide op'ning wide, Liket to thee in hape and count'nance bright, Then hining heav’nly fair, a Goddes arm'd Out of thy head I prung: amazement eis'd All th’ Hot of Heav’n; back they recoild affraid 760 At firt, and call'd me Sin, and for a Sign Portentous held me; but familiar grown, I pleas'd, and with attractive graces won The most avere, thee chiefly, who full oft Thy elf in me thy perfect image viewing Becam’t enamoured, and uch joy thou took’t With me in ecret, that my womb conceiv'd A growing burden. Mean while Warr aroe, And fields were fought in Heav’n; wherein remaind (For what could ele) to our Almighty Foe 770 Cleer Victory, to our part los and rout Through all the Empyrean: down they fell Driv'n headlong from the Pitch of Heaven, down Into this Deep, and in the general fall I alo; at which time this powerful Key Into my hands was giv'n, with charge to keep Thee Gates for ever hut, which none can pas Without my op'ning. Penive here I at Alone, but long I at not, till my womb Pregnant by thee, and now exceive grown 780 Prodigious motion felt and rueful throes. At lat this odious offspring whom thou eest Thine own begotten, breaking violent way Tore through my entrails, that with fear and pain Ditorted, all my nether hape thus grew Transform'd: but he my inbred enemie