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Whom the grand foe with scornful eye askance

Thus answerd. Ill for thee, but in wisht houre [ 150 ]

Of my revenge, first sought for thou returnst

From flight, seditious Angel, to receave

Thy merited reward, the first assay

Of this right hand provokt, since first that tongue

Inspird with contradiction durst oppose [ 155 ]

A third part of the Gods, in Synod met

Thir Deities to assert, who while they feel

Vigour Divine within them, can allow

Omnipotence to none. But well thou comst

Before thy fellows, ambitious to win [ 160 ]

From me som Plume, that thy success may show

Destruction to the rest: this pause between

(Unanswerd least thou boast) to let thee know;

At first I thought that Libertie and Heavn

To heavnly Soules had bin all one; but now [ 165 ]

I see that most through sloth had rather serve,

Ministring Spirits, traind up in Feast and Song;

Such hast thou armd, the Minstrelsie of Heavn,

Servilitie with freedom to contend,

As both thir deeds compard this day shall prove. [ 170 ]

To whom in brief thus Abdiel stern replid.

Apostat, still thou errst, nor end wilt find

Of erring, from the path of truth remote:

Unjustly thou depravst it with the name

Of Servitude to serve whom God ordains, [ 175 ]

Or Nature; God and Nature bid the same,

When he who rules is worthiest, and excells

Them whom he governs. This is servitude,

To serve th unwise, or him who hath rebelld

Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, [ 180 ]

Thy self not free, but to thy self enthralld;

Yet leudly darst our ministring upbraid.

Reign thou in Hell thy Kingdom, let mee serve

In Heavn God ever blest, and his Divine

Behests obey, worthiest to be obeyd, [ 185 ]

Yet Chains in Hell, not Realms expect: mean while

From mee returnd, as erst thou saidst, from flight,

This greeting on thy impious Crest receive.

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