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    And leave a singed bottom all involvd

    With stend smoak: Such resting found the sole

    Of u feet.   Him followed his  Mate,

    Both gl to have scapt the Stygian flood

    As Gods, and by thir own recoverd strength, [ 240 ]

    Not by the sufferance of supernal Power.

    Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime,

    Said then the lost A<mark></mark>rgel, this the seat

    That we must ge for Heavn, this mournful gloom

    For that celestial light? Be it so, since he [ 245 ]

    Who now is Sovran  dispose and bid

    What shall be right: fardest from him is best

    Whom rea<cite>?99ｌib.</cite>son hath equald, force hath made supream

    Above<big>?99ｌｉｂ.</big> his equals. Farewel happy Fields

    Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail horrours, hail [ 250 ]

    Infernal world, and thou profou Hell

    Receive thy new Possessor: One whs

    A mind not to be gd by Place or Time.

    The mind is its own place, and in it self

    make a Heavn of Hell, a Hell of Heavn. [ 255 ]

    What matter where, if I be still the same,

    And what I should be, all but less then he

    Whom Thunder hath made greater? Here at least

    We shall be free; th Almighty hath not built

    Here fo..r his envy, will not drive us hence: [ 260 ]

    Here we may reign secure, and in my choyce

    Tn is worth ambition though in Hell:

    Better tn in Hell, then serve in Heavn.

    But wherefore let we then our faithful friends,

    Th associates and copartners of our loss [ 265 ]

    Lye thus astonisht on th oblivious Pool,

    And call them not to share with us their part

    In this unhappy Mansion, or once more

    With rallied Arms to try what may be yet

    Regaind in Heavn, or what more lost in Hell? [ 270 ]

    So Satan spake, and him Beelzebub

    Thus answerd. Leader of those Armies bright,

    Which but th Onmipotent none could have foyld,

    If ohey hear that voyce, thir liveliest pledge

    Of hope in fears and dangers, heard so oft [ 275 ]

    In worst extreams, and on the perilous edge

    Of battel when it ragd, in all assaults

    Thir surest signal, they will soon resume

    New ce and revive, though now they lye

    Groveling and prostrate on yon Lake of Fire, [ 280 ]

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