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Rh  1010 He ceas'd; and Satan taid not to reply, But glad that now his Sea hould find a hore, With freh alacritie and force renew'd Springs upward like a Pyramid of fire Into the wilde expane, and through the hock Of fighting Elements, on all ides round Environ'd wins his way; harder beet And more endanger'd, then when Argo pas'd Through Boporus betwixt the jutling Rocks: Or when Ulyes on the Larbord hunnd 1020 Charybdis, and by th’ other whirlpool teard. So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour hee; But hee once pat, oon after when man fell, Strange alteration! Sin and Death amain Following his track, uch was the will of Heav’n, Pav'd after him a broad and beat'n way Over the dark Abys, whoe boiling Gulf Tamely endur'd a Bridge of wondrous length From Hell continu'd reaching th’ utmot Orbe 1030 Of this frail World; by which the Spirits pervere With eaie intercoure pas to and fro To tempt or punih mortals, except whom God and good Angels guard by pecial grace. But now at lat the acred influence Of light appears, and from the walls of Heav’n Shoots farr into the boom of dim Night A glimmering dawn; here Nature firt begins Her fardet verge, and Chaos to retire As from her outmot works a brok'n foe 1040 With tumult les and with les hotile din, That Satan with les toil, and now with eae