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And in embraces forcible and foule
And fields were fought in Heavn; wherein remaind
Forth issud, brandishing his fatal Dart
These yelling Monsters that with ceasless cry [ 795 ]
The most averse, thee chiefly, who full oft
Forbore, then these to her Satan returnd:
A growing burden. Mean while Warr arose,
What it intends; till first I know of thee, [ 740 ]
That bred them they return, and howle and gnaw
Into this Deep, and in the general fall
Out 九九藏书网 of thy head I sprung; amazement seisd
In Heavn, when at th Assembly, and in sight
Tore through my entrails, that with fear and pain
Hast thou forgot me then, and do I seem
Threw forth, till on the left side opning wide, [ 755 ]
In this infernal Vaile first met thou callst
Likest to thee in shape and countnance bright,
At last this odious offspring whom thou seest
Hell trembld at the hideous Name, and sighd
Becamst enamourd, and such joy thou tookst [ 765 ]
All on a sudden miserable p九*九*藏*书*网ain
That rest or intermission none I find.
From all her Caves, and back resounded Death.
At first, and calld me Sin, and for a Sign [ 760 ]
And hourly born, with sorrow infinite
Inflamd with lust then rage) and swifter far,
I know thee not, nor ever saw till now
Mee overtook his mother all dismaid,
Without my opning. Pensive here I sat
Through all the Empyrean: down they fell
Me Father, and that Fantasm callst my Son?
Sight more detestable then him and thee. [ 745 ]
With me in secret, that９９ｌｉｂ•net my womb conceivd
In bold conspiracy against Heavns King,
Ingendring with me, of that rape begot
Surprisd thee, dim thine eyes, and dizzie swumm
What thing thou art, thus double-formd, and why
So strange thy outcry, and thy words so strange
A fresh with conscious terrours vex me round,
To me, for when they list into the womb
Transformd: but he my inbred enemie [ 785 ]
Made to destroy: I fled, and cryd out Death;
Then shining Heavnly fair, a Goddess armd
Drivn headlong from the Pitch of Heaven, down
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Thy self in me thy perfect image viewing
My Bowels, thir repast; then bursting forth [ 800 ]
Prevented spares to tell thee yet by deeds
Thou interposest, that my sudden hand
Prodigious motion felt and rueful throes. [ 780 ]
T whom thus the Portress of Hell Gate replyd;
(For what could else) to our Almighty Foe
She spake, and at her words the hellish Pest [ 735 ]
Of all the Seraphim with thee combind [ 750 ]
Pregnant by thee, and now excessive grown
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Surround me, as thou sawst, hourly conceivd
All th Host of Heavn back they recoild affraid
Now in thine eye so foul, once deemd so fair
Alone, but long I sat not, till my womb
Distorted, all my nether shape thus grew
Into my hand was givn, with charge to keep [ 755 ]
Portentous held me; but familiar grown,
In darkness, while thy head flames thick and fast
These Gates for ever shut, which none can pass
Cleer Victory, to our part loss and rout [ 770 ]