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 That he may go to his own Place, Prince of the Starry Wheels.

P. 8* THEN Los & Enitharmon knew that Satan is Urizen,

Drawn down by Orc & the Shadowy Female into Generation.

Oft Enitharmon enter'd weeping into the Space, there appearing

An aged Woman raving along the Streets (The Space is named

Canaan): then she returned to Los, weary, frighted as from dreams.

The nature of a Female Space is this: it shrinks the Organs

Of Life till they become finite & Itself seems Infinite.

And Satan vibrated in the immensity of the Space: limited

To those without but Infinite to those within: it fell down and

Became Canaan: closing Los from Eternity in Albion's Cliffs.

A mighty Fiend against the Divine Humanity must'ring to War.

Satan: Ah me! is gone to his own place, said Los: their Gods

I will not worship in their Churches, nor King in their Theatres.

Elynittria! whence is this Jealousy running along the mountains?

British Women were not Jealous when Greek & Roman were Jealous.

Every thing in Eternity shines by its own Internal light: but thou

Darkenest every Internal light with the arrows of thy quiver,

Bound up in the horns of Jealousy to a deadly fading Moon.

And Ocalythron binds the Sun into a Jealous Globe,

That every thing is fix'd, Opake without Internal light.

So Los lamented over Satan who triumphant divided the Nations

P. 17* AND Tharmas Demon of the Waters, & Orc, who is Luvah.

The Shadowy Female seeing Milton, howled in her lamentation

Over the Deeps, outstretching her Twenty seven Heavens over Albion.

And thus the Shadowy Female howls in articulate howlings:

I will lament over Milton in the lamentations of the afflicted:

My Garments shall be woven of sighs & heart broken lamentations:

The misery of unhappy Families shall be drawn out into its border,

Wrought with the needle with dire sufferings, poverty, pain & woe.

Along the rocky Island & thence throughout the whole Earth

There shall be the sick Father & his starving Family: there

The Prisoner in the Stone Dungeon & the Slave at the Mill. 49