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202 Invulnerable, impenetrably armed; Such high advantages their innocence Gave them above their foes; not to have sinned, Not to have disobeyed; in fight they stood Unwearied, unobnoxious to be pained By wound, though from their place by violence moved.
 * "Now Night her course began, and, over Heaven

Inducing darkness, grateful truce imposed, And silence on the odious din of war. Under her cloudy covert both retired, Victor and vanquished. On the foughten field Michaël and his Angels prevalent Encamping placed in guard their watches round, Cherubic waving fires; on the other part, Satan with his rebellious disappeared, Far in the dark dislodged; and; void of rest, His potentates to council called by night, And in the midst thus undismayed began:
 * O now in danger tried, now known in arms

Not to be overpowered, companions dear, Found worthy not of liberty alone, Too mean pretense, but what we more affect Honor, dominion, glory, and renown, Who have sustained one day in doubtful fight —And if one day, why not eternal days?— What Heaven's Lord had powerfullest to send Against us from about his throne, and judged