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192 Against the Omnipotent to rise in arms; Who, out of smallest things, could without end Have raised incessant armies to defeat Thy folly; or with solitary hand, Reaching beyoundbeyond [sic] all limit, at one blow Unaided could have finished thee, and whelmed Thy legions under darkness. But thou seest All are not of thy train; there be who faith Prefer, and piety to God, though then To thee not visible, when I alone Seemed in thy world erroneous to dissent From all; my sect thou seest. Now learn too late How few sometimes may know, when thousands err.'
 * "Whom the grand foe, with scornful eye askance,

Thus answered:—'Ill for thee, but in wished hour Of my revenge, first sought for, thou returnest From flight, seditious Angel! to receive Thy merited reward, the first assay Of this right-hand provoked, since first that tongue, Inspired with contradiction, durst oppose A third part of the Gods, in synod met Their deities to assert, who, while they feel Vigor divine within them, can allow Omnipotence to none. But well thou comest Before thy fellows, ambitiöus to win From me some plume, that thy success may shew