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104 And here are likeliest by supreme decree Like honor to obtain, and as his eye To visit oft this new creation round. . . Unspeakable desire to see and know All these his wondrous works, but chiefly Man, His chief delight and favor, him for whom All these his works so wondrous he ordained, Had brought me from the quires of Cherubim, Alone thus wandering. Brightest Seraph, tell, In which of all these shining orbs hath Man His fixed seat, or fixed seat hath none, But all these shining orbs his choice to dwell; That I may find him, and with secret gaze Or open admiration him behold, On whom the great Creator hath bestowed Worlds, and on whom hath all these graces poured; That both in him and all things, as in meet, The universal Maker we may praise; Who justly hath driven out his rebel foes To deepest Hell, and, to repair that loss, Created this new happy race of Men To serve him better: wise are all his ways."
 * So spake the false dissembler unperceived;

For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone,