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Rh Thee also happier, shall not be withheld Thy hearing; such commission from above I have received, to answer thy desire Of knowledge within bounds; beyond abstain To ask, nor let thine own inventions hope Things not revealed, which the invisible King, Only omniscient, hath suppressed in night, To none communicable in Earth or Heaven; Enough is left besides to search and know. But knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her temperance over appetite, to know In measure what the mind may well contain; Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly, as nourishment to wind.
 * "Know then, that after Lucifer from Heaven

—So call him, brighter once amidst the host Of Angels, than that star the stars among— Fell with his flaming legions through the Deep Into his place, and the great Son returned Victorious with his Saints, the omnipotent, Eternal Father from his throne beheld Their multitude, and to his Son thus spake:
 * At least our envious foe hath failed, who thought

All like himself rebellious, by whose aid This inaccessible high strength, the seat Of Deity supreme, us dispossessed, He trusted to have seized, and into fraud