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 And powers that earst in Heaven sat on thrones; Though of thir names in heavenly records now Be no memoriall, blotted out and raz'd, By thir rebellion, from the books of life. Nor had they yet among the sons of Eve Got them new names, till wandring ore the earth, Through Gods high sufferance for the trial of man, By falsities and lyes the greatest part Of Mankind they corrupted to forsake God thir Creator and th' invisible Glory of him that made them to transform Oft to the image of a brute, adorn'd With gay religions full of pomp and gold And divells to adore for deities: Then were they known to men by various names, And various Idolls through the heathen world. Say, Muse, thir names then known, who first, who last, Rous'd from the slumber, on that fiery couch, At thir great Emperours call, as next in worth Came singly where hee stood on the bare strand, While the promiscuous croud stood yet aloof. The cheife were those who from the pit of Hell Roaming to seek thir prey on earth, durst fix Their seats, long after, next the Seat of God,