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14 - Paradise Lost - John Milton · Philosophy and Faith

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Speaker 1: Book six, Part two. Now night her course began and
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Speaker 1: over heaven inducing darkness, grateful truce imposed, and silence on
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Speaker 1: the odious din of war under her cloudy covert both
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Speaker 1: retired victor and vanquish'd on the foughten field, Michael and
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Speaker 1: his angels, prevalent in camping, placed in guard, their watches
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Speaker 1: round Cherubic, waving fires on other parts. Satan, with his
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Speaker 1: rebellious disappear'd far in the dark, dislodged and void of rest,
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Speaker 1: his potentates to council call'd by night and in the
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Speaker 1: midst thus undismayed began. Oh now in danger, tried, now
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Speaker 1: known in arms, not to be overpower'd companions dear found
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Speaker 1: worthy not of liberty alone too mean pretense, But what
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Speaker 1: we more affect honor, dominion, glory, and renown, who have
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Speaker 1: sustain'd one day in doubtful fight, And if one day,
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Speaker 1: why not eternal days? What Heaven's lord had powerfullest to
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Speaker 1: send against us from about his throne, and judged sufficient
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Speaker 1: to subdue us to his will? But proves not so
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Speaker 1: then fallible it seems of future we may deem him,
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Speaker 1: though till now omniscient thought true is less firmly armed.
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Speaker 1: Some disadvantage we endured, and pain till now not known,
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Speaker 1: but known as soon contemned. Since now we find this
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Speaker 1: our imperial form, incapable of mortal injury, imperishable, and though
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Speaker 1: pierced with wounds soon closing, and by native vigor healed
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Speaker 1: of evil then so small as easy think the remedy
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Speaker 1: perhaps more valid, arms, weapons, more violent when next we meet,
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Speaker 1: may serve to better us and worse our foes, or
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Speaker 1: equal What between us made the odds in nature none
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Speaker 1: if other hidden cause left them superior, while we can
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Speaker 1: preserve unhurt our minds, an understanding sound due search and
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Speaker 1: consultation will disclose. He sat, and in the assembly next
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Speaker 1: upstood nisrock of Principalities, the prime as one. He stood
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Speaker 1: escaped from cruel fight, sore toil'd his riven arms to havoc,
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Speaker 1: hewn and cloudy an aspect thus answering spake deliverer from
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Speaker 1: new lords leader to free enjoyment of our right as gods.
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Speaker 1: Yet hard for gods, and too unequal work we find
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Speaker 1: against unequal arms, to fight in pain, against unpained, impassive,
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Speaker 1: from which evil ruin must needs ensue For what avails
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Speaker 1: valor or strength, though matchless, quell'd with pain, which all
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Speaker 1: subdues and makes remiss the hands of mightiest sense of pleasure.
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Speaker 1: We may well spare out of life, perhaps, and not repine,
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Speaker 1: but live content, which is the calmest life. But pain
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Speaker 1: is perfect misery, the worst of evils, and excessive overturns
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Speaker 1: all patience. He who therefore can invent with what more
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Speaker 1: forcible we may offend our yet unwounded enemies, or arm
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Speaker 1: ourselves with like defense. To me, deserves no less than
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Speaker 1: for deliverance what we owe. Whereto with look composed, Satan replied,
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Speaker 1: not uninvented that which thou aright believed, so main to
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Speaker 1: our success? I bring which of us who beholds the
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Speaker 1: bright surface of this ethereous mold, whereon we stand this
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Speaker 1: continent of spacious heaven, adorn'd with plant, fruit, flower, ambrosial gems,
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Speaker 1: and gold, whose eye so superficially surveys these things as
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Speaker 1: not to mind. From whence they grow deep under ground materials,
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Speaker 1: dark and crude of spirituous and fiery spume, till touched
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Speaker 1: with Heaven's ray, and temper'd they shoot forth, so beauteous
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Speaker 1: opening to the ambient light these and their dark nativity.
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Speaker 1: The deep shall yield us pregnant with infernal flame, which
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Speaker 1: into hallow engines, long and round, thick, rammed at thuather bore,
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Speaker 1: with touch of fire, dilated and infuriate, shall send forth
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Speaker 1: from far, with thundering noise among our foes, such implements
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Speaker 1: of mischief as shall dash to pieces and overwhelm whatever
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Speaker 1: stands adverse, that they shall fear we have disarmed the
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Speaker 1: thunderer of his only dreaded bolt. Nor long shall be
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Speaker 1: our labor. Yet ere dawn effect shall end our wish. Meanwhile, revive,
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Speaker 1: abandon fear to strength and counsel, joind think nothing hard,
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Speaker 1: much less to be despaired. He ended, and his words
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Speaker 1: their drooping cheer enlightened, and their languished hope revived. The
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Speaker 1: invention all admired, and each how he to be the
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Speaker 1: inventor missed so easy it seemed once found, which yet
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Speaker 1: unfound most would have thought impossible. Yet haply of thy race.
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Speaker 1: In future days, if malice should abound, some one intent
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Speaker 1: on mischief, or inspired with devilish machination, might devise like
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Speaker 1: instrument to plague the sons of men. For sin on
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Speaker 1: war and mutual slaughter. Bent forthwith from counsel to the work,
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Speaker 1: they flew, none arguing, stood, Innumerable hands were ready. In
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Speaker 1: a moment. Up they turned wide the celestial soil and
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Speaker 1: saw beneath the originals of nature in their crude conception,
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Speaker 1: sulfurous and nitrous foam they found. They mingled, and with
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Speaker 1: subtle art concocted and adjusted, they reduced to blackest grain
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Speaker 1: and into store conveyed part hidden veins digged up. Nor
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Speaker 1: hath this earth entrails unlike of mineral and stone, whereof
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Speaker 1: to found their engines and their balls of missive ruin
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Speaker 1: part incentive reed provide pernicious with one touch to fire,
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Speaker 1: so all ere day spring under conscious night secret they finished,
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Speaker 1: and in order set with silent circumspection, unespied. Now when
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Speaker 1: fair morn orient in heaven appear'd, up rose the victor angels,
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Speaker 1: and to arms the mattin trumpets sung in arms they
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Speaker 1: stood of golden panople. Refulgent host soon banded. Others from
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Speaker 1: the dawning hills looked round, and scouts each coast light
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Speaker 1: arm'd scour each quarter to describe the distant foe, where
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Speaker 1: lodg'd or whither fled, or if for fight in motion
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Speaker 1: or in alt him. Soon they met under spread ensigns,
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Speaker 1: moving nigh in slow but firm battalion back with speediest
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Speaker 1: sail Zephiel of Cherubim, the swiftest wing came flying and
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Speaker 1: in mid air aloud. Thus cried Arm warriors, Arm for
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Speaker 1: fight the foe at hand, whom fled, we thought will
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Speaker 1: save us long pursuit this day, fear not his flight,
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Speaker 1: So thick a cloud he comes, and settled in his face,
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Speaker 1: I see sad resolution and secure. Let each his adamantine
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Speaker 1: coat gird well, and each fit well his helm, grip fast,
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Speaker 1: his orbed shield borne even or high, For this day
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Speaker 1: will pour down if I conjecture aught no drizzling shower,
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Speaker 1: but rattling storm of arrows barb'd with fire. So warn'd
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Speaker 1: he them aware themselves, and soon in order quit of
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Speaker 1: all impediment. Instant without disturbed, they took alarm, and onward
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Speaker 1: move embattl'd, when behold not distant far with heavy pace,
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Speaker 1: the foe approaching, gross and huge in hollow cube, training
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Speaker 1: his devilish enginery, impal'd on every side, with shadowing squadrons
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Speaker 1: deep to hide the fraud. At interview, both stood awhile,
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Speaker 1: but suddenly at head appear'd satan, and thus was heard
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Speaker 1: commanding loud, vanguard to right and left the front unfold,
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Speaker 1: that all may see who hate us, how we seek
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Speaker 1: peace and composure, And with open breast, stand ready to
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Speaker 1: receive them if they like our overture, and turn not
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Speaker 1: back perverse. But that I doubt, however, witness Heaven, Heaven,
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Speaker 1: witness thou Anon. While we discharge freely our part ye
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Speaker 1: who appointed, stand, do as you have in charge, and
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Speaker 1: briefly touch what we propound and loud that all may hear.
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Speaker 1: So scoffing in ambiguous words, he scarce had ended when
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Speaker 1: to right and left the front divided, and to either
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Speaker 1: flank retired, which to our eyes discovered new and strange,
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Speaker 1: a triple mounted row of pillars, laid on wheels, For
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Speaker 1: like to pillars, most they seem'd or hollow'd. Bodies made
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Speaker 1: of oak or fir, with branches lopped and wood or
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Speaker 1: mountain felled, brass, iron, stony mold, had not their mouths
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Speaker 1: with hideous orifice gaped on us, wide portending hollow truce.
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Speaker 1: At each behind a seraph stood and in his hand
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Speaker 1: a reed stood waving tipped with fire, while we, suspense collected,
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Speaker 1: stood within our thoughts, amused, not long for sudden. All
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Speaker 1: at once their reeds put forth and to a narrow
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Speaker 1: vent applied with nicest touch, immediate in a flame, but
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Speaker 1: soon obscur'd with smoke. All heav'n appear'd from those deep
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Speaker 1: throated engine's belch, whose roar embowel'd with outrageous noise the
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Speaker 1: air and all her entrails toward disgorging foul. Their devilish
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Speaker 1: glut chain'd thunderbolts and hail of iron globes, which on
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Speaker 1: the victor host level'd with such impetuous fury smote that
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Speaker 1: whom they hit, none on their feet, might stand, though
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Speaker 1: standing else as rocks. But down they fell, by thousands,
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Speaker 1: angel on archangel roll'd the sooner for their arms unarmed,
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Speaker 1: they might have easily as spirits evaded swift by quick
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Speaker 1: contraction or remove. But now foul dissipation follow'd and forced
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Speaker 1: rout nor servd it to relax their serried files. What
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Speaker 1: should they do if on they rush'd repulse repeated and
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Speaker 1: indecent overthrow doubled would render them yet more despised and
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Speaker 1: to their foes of laughter, for in view stood rank
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Speaker 1: of seraphim another row imposture to displode their second tire
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Speaker 1: of thunder back. Defeated to return, they worse, abhorred. Satan
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Speaker 1: beheld their plight, and to his mates, thus in derision,
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Speaker 1: call'd o friends, Why come not on these victors proud
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Speaker 1: ere while they fierce were coming? And when we to
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Speaker 1: entertain them fair with open front and breast, what could
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Speaker 1: we more propounded terms of composition straight They changed their minds,
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Speaker 1: flew off and into strange vagaries, fell as they would dance.
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Speaker 1: Yet for a dance they seemed somewhat extravagant and wild,
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Speaker 1: perhaps for joy of offer'd peace. But I suppose if
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Speaker 1: our proposals once again were heard, we should compel them
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Speaker 1: to a quick result, to whom thus belial in like
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Speaker 1: game some mood leader. The terms we sent were terms
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Speaker 1: of weight, of hard contents, and full of force, urged
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Speaker 1: home such as we might perceive. Amused them all and stumbled.
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Speaker 1: Many who received them right had need from head to foot.
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Speaker 1: Well understand not understood this gift they have. Besides, they
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Speaker 1: show us when our foes walk not upright. So they
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Speaker 1: among themselves, in pleasant veins, stood scoffing, hyphened in their thoughts,
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Speaker 1: beyond all doubt of victory eternal might to match with
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Speaker 1: their inventions, they presum'd so easy, and of his thunder
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Speaker 1: made of scorn, and all his host derided while they
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Speaker 1: stood awhile in trouble. But they stood not long. Rage
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Speaker 1: prompted them at length, and found them arms against such
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Speaker 1: hellish mischief, fit to oppose. Forthwith behold the excellence the
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Speaker 1: power which God hath in his mighty angels. Placed their
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Speaker 1: arms away they threw, and to the hills, for earth
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Speaker 1: hath this variety from Heaven of pleasures situate in hill
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Speaker 1: and dale, light as the lightning glimpse they ran. They
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Speaker 1: flew from their foundations, loosening to and fro. They plucked
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Speaker 1: the seated hills with all their load, rocks, waters, woods,
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Speaker 1: and by the shaggy tops, uplifting bore them in their hands.
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Speaker 1: A maze be sure and terror seized the rebel host.
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Speaker 1: When coming towards them, so dread they saw the bottom
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Speaker 1: of the mountains upward turned till on those cursed engines
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Speaker 1: triple row. They saw them whelmed, and all their confidence
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Speaker 1: under the weight of mountains buried deep themselves invaded next,
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Speaker 1: and on their heads main promontories flung, which in the
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Speaker 1: air came shadowing and oppressed whole legions armed, their armor,
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Speaker 1: helped their harm, crushed in and bruised into their substance,
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Speaker 1: pent which wrought them pain, implacable, and many a dolorous groan,
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Speaker 1: long struggling underneath. Ere they could wind out of such prison,
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Speaker 1: though spirits of purest lifeight purest at first, now gross
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Speaker 1: by sinning grown the rest in imitation to like arms
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Speaker 1: betook them, and the neighboring hills uptore So hills amid
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Speaker 1: the air, encountered hills hurled to and fro with jaculation,
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Speaker 1: dire that under ground they fought in dismal shade, infernal noise.
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Speaker 1: War seem'd a civil game to this uproar, horrid confusion
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Speaker 1: heaped upon confusion rose, And now all heav'n had gone
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Speaker 1: to rack with ruin overspread. Had not Almighty Father, where
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Speaker 1: he sits shrined in his sanctuary of Heaven, secure consulting
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Speaker 1: on the sum of things, foreseen this tumult and permitted
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Speaker 1: all advised that his great purpose he might so fulfill
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Speaker 1: to honor his anointed son avenged upon his enemies, and
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Speaker 1: to declare all power on him transferred, whence to his son,
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Speaker 1: the assessor of his throne. He thus began deffulgence of
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Speaker 1: my glory son be lov'd son in whose face invisible
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Speaker 1: is beheld visibly? What by deity I am? And in
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Speaker 1: whose hand? What by decree I do? Second omnipotence. Two
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Speaker 1: days are past, two days as we compute the days
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Speaker 1: of Heav'n. Since Michael and his powers went forth to
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Speaker 1: tame these disobedient sore hath been their fight as likeliest
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Speaker 1: was when two such foes met arm'd for to themselves
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Speaker 1: I left them, and thou know'st equal in their creation.
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Speaker 1: They were form'd save what sin hath impair'd, which yet
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Speaker 1: hath wrought insensibly, for I suspend their doom. Whence, in
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Speaker 1: perpetual fight they needs must last endless, and no solution
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Speaker 1: will be found. War wearied hath perform'd what war can do.
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Speaker 1: And to disordered rage, let loose the reins with mountains
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Speaker 1: as with weapons arm'd, which makes wild work in Heav'n
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Speaker 1: and dangerous to the main. Two days are therefore past.
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Speaker 1: The third is thine, for thee. I have ordain'd it,
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Speaker 1: and thus far have suffer'd that the glory may be
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Speaker 1: Thine of ending this great war, since none but thou
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Speaker 1: can end it into thee such virtue and grace immense
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Speaker 1: I have transfus'd that all may know in Heaven and Hell,
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Speaker 1: thy power above compare, and this perverse commotion govern thus
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Speaker 1: to manifest thee worthiest to be heir of all things,
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Speaker 1: to be heir and to be king. By sacred unction,
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Speaker 1: thy deserv'd right. Go, Then, thou mightiest, in thy father's might,
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Speaker 1: ascend my chariot, guide the rapid wheels that shake Heav'n's basis.
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Speaker 1: Bring forth all my war, my bow, and thunder my
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Speaker 1: almighty arms, gird on and soar'd upon thy puissant thigh.
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Speaker 1: Pursue these sons of darkness. Drive them out from all
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Speaker 1: Heaven's bounds into thee uttered deep. There, let them learn,
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Speaker 1: as likes them, to despise God and Messiah, his anointed king.
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Speaker 1: He said, And on his son with rays direct shone
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Speaker 1: full he all his father full express'd ineffably into his
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Speaker 1: face receiv'd. And thus the filial Godhead answering spake, O Father,
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Speaker 1: O supreme of heav'nly thrones first, highest, holiest best. Thou
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Speaker 1: always seek'st to glorify thy son, I always THEE as
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Speaker 1: is most just. This I my glory, account, my exaltation,
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Speaker 1: and my whole delight, that thou in me well please
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Speaker 1: ead decla'st thy will fulfill'd, which to fulfill is all
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Speaker 1: my bliss, scepter and power. Thy giving I assume, and
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Speaker 1: gladlier shall resign when in the end thou shalt be
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Speaker 1: all in all, and I in THEE for ever and
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Speaker 1: in me all whom thou lov'st, but whom thou hatest
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Speaker 1: I hate and can put on thy terrors, as I
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Speaker 1: put thy mildness on image of THEE in all things,
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Speaker 1: and shall soon arm'd with thy might rid heav'n of
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Speaker 1: these rebell'd to their prepar'd ill mansion, driv'n down to
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Speaker 1: chains of darkness, and the undying worm that from thy
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Speaker 1: just obedience could revolt whom to obey is happiness entire.
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Speaker 1: Then shall thy saints unmix'd, and from them pure far separate,
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Speaker 1: circling thy holy mount, unfeigned Hale lujahs to thee, seeing
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Speaker 1: hymns of high praise, and iye among them chief, so
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Speaker 1: said he or his scepter, bowing rose from the right
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Speaker 1: hand of glory, where he sate, and the third sacred
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Speaker 1: morn began to shine, dawning through heaven. Forth rushed with
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Speaker 1: whirlwind sound, the chariot of paternal deity, flashing thick flames,
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Speaker 1: wheel within wheel, undrawn itself instinct with spirit, but convoyed
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Speaker 1: by four cherubic shapes, four faces each had wondrous as
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Speaker 1: with stars, their bodies all and wings were set with eyes,
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Speaker 1: with eyes, the wheels of beryl and careering fires between
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Speaker 1: Over their heads a crystal firmament, whereon a sapphire throne,
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Speaker 1: inlaid with pure amber and colors of the showery arch.
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Speaker 1: He in celestial panople, all armed of radiant urim work,
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Speaker 1: divinely wrought, ascended at his right hand Victory sate eagle winged.
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Speaker 1: Beside him, hung his bow and quiver with three bolted
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Speaker 1: thunder stord, and from about him fierce effusion rolled of
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Speaker 1: smoke and bickering flame, and sparkle's dire, attended with ten
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Speaker 1: thousand thousand saints. He onward came far off his coming
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Speaker 1: shone and twenty thousand I their number heard chariots of God,
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Speaker 1: half on each hand, were seen He on the wings
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Speaker 1: of cherub rode sublime on the crystalline sky in Sapphire,
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Speaker 1: throned illustrious far and wide, but by his own first
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Speaker 1: seen then unexpected joy surprised when the great ensign of
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Speaker 1: Messiah blazed, aloft by angels, born his sign in heaven,
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Speaker 1: under whose conduct Michael soon reduced. His army circumfused on
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Speaker 1: either wing under their head, embodied all in one before him,
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Speaker 1: power divine, his way prepared at his command, the uprooted
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Speaker 1: Hills retir'd each to his place. They heard his voice
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Speaker 1: and went obsequious Heaven, his wonted face renewed, and with
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Speaker 1: fresh florets. Hill and Valley smiled. This saw his hapless foes,
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Speaker 1: but stood abdur'd, and to rebellious fight rallied their powers,
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Speaker 1: insensate hope, conceiving from despair in heavenly spirits. Could such
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Speaker 1: perverseness dwell but to convince the proud what signs avail?
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Speaker 1: Or wonders moved the abdura to relent. They hardened more
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Speaker 1: by what might most reclaim, grieving to see his glory
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Speaker 1: at the sight took envy, and, aspiring to his height,
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Speaker 1: stood re embattled, fierce by force or fraud, weening to
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Speaker 1: prosper and at length prevail against God and Messiah, or
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Speaker 1: to fall in universal ruin last and now to final
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Speaker 1: battle drew, disdaining flight or faint retreat, when the Great
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Speaker 1: Son of God, to all his host on either hand,
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Speaker 1: thus spake stand still in bright array, Ye saints, here stand,
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Speaker 1: ye angels, arm'd this day from battle, rest faithful, hath
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Speaker 1: been your warfare, and of God accepted fearless in his
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Speaker 1: righteous cause. And as ye have receiv'd, so have ye
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Speaker 1: done invincibly. But of this cursed crew the punishment to
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Speaker 1: other hand belongs vengeance is his or whose he soule
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Speaker 1: appoints number to. This day's work is not ordain'd nor multitude.
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Speaker 1: Stand only and behold God's indignation on these godless pour'd
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Speaker 1: by me, not you, but me. They have despis'd yet
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Speaker 1: envied against me is all their rage. Because the Father
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Speaker 1: to whom in heav'n supreme kingdom and power and glory appertains,
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Speaker 1: hath honor'd me according to his will. Therefore to me
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Speaker 1: their doom he hath assign'd that they may have their
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Speaker 1: wish to try with me in battle, which the stronger
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Speaker 1: proves they all or I alone against them, Since by
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Speaker 1: strength they measure all of other excellence not emulous, nor
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Speaker 1: care who them excels, nor other strife with them, do
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Speaker 1: I vouchsafe. So spake the son, and into terror chang'd
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Speaker 1: his countenance, too severe to be beheld, and full of wrath,
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Speaker 1: bent on his enemies. At once, the four spread out
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Speaker 1: their starry wings with dreadful shade, contiguous, and the orbs
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Speaker 1: of his fierce chariot roll'd as with the sound of
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Speaker 1: torrent floods or of a news host. He on his
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Speaker 1: impious foes right onward, drove gloomy as night under his
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Speaker 1: burning wheels. The steadfast Empyrean shook throughout all but the
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Speaker 1: throne itself of God full Soon among them he arrived
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Speaker 1: in his right hand, grasping ten thousand thunders, which he
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Speaker 1: sent before them, such as in their souls in fixed plagues.
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Speaker 1: They astonished, all resistance, lost, all courage, down, their idle weapons,
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Speaker 1: dropped or shields and helms and helmed heads. He rode
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Speaker 1: of thrones and mighty seraphim prostrate, that wished the mountains
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Speaker 1: now might be again thrown on them as a shelter
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Speaker 1: from his eyre, nor less on either side. Tempestuous fell
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Speaker 1: his arrows from the fourfold visag'd four distinct with eyes,
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Speaker 1: and from the living wheels, distinct alike, with multitude of eyes.
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Speaker 1: One spirit in them ruled, and every eye glared, lightning
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Speaker 1: and shot, for with pernicious fire. Among the accursed, that
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Speaker 1: withered all their strength and of their wonted vigor, left
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Speaker 1: them drained, exhausted, spiritless, afflicted, fallen, yet half his strength,
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Speaker 1: he put not forth, but check'd his thunder in mid volley,
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Speaker 1: for he meant not to destroy, but root them out
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Speaker 1: of heaven. The overthrown he raised, and as a herd
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Speaker 1: of goats or timorous flock, together thronged, drove them before him,
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Speaker 1: thunder struck, pursued with terrors and with furies, to the
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Speaker 1: bounds and crystal wall of heaven, which, opening wide, rolled inward,
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Speaker 1: and a spacious gap disclosed into the wasteful deep. The
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Speaker 1: monstrous sight struck them with horror backward, but far worse
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Speaker 1: urged them behind headlong themselves. They threw down from the
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Speaker 1: verge of Heaven eternal wroth burnt after them to the
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Speaker 1: bottomless pit. Hell heard the unsufferable noise. Hell saw Heaven
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Speaker 1: ruining from Heaven, and would have fled affrighted, but strict
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Speaker 1: fate had cast too deep her dark foundations, and too
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Speaker 1: fast had bound. Nine days they fell confounded, Chaos roared
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Speaker 1: and felt tenfold confusion in their fall through his wild anarchy,
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Speaker 1: so huge a rout encumbered him with ruin. Hell. At last,
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Speaker 1: Yawning received them whole, and on them closed Hell. Their
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Speaker 1: fit habitation fraught with fire, unquenchable, the house of woe
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Speaker 1: and pain disburdened, Heaven rejoiced and soon repaired her mural breach,
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Speaker 1: returning whence it rolled sole victor from the expulsion of
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Speaker 1: his foes. Messiah, his triumphal chariot turn'd to meet him.
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Speaker 1: All his saints, who silent stood eye witness of his
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Speaker 1: almighty acts. With Jubilee advanced, and as they went shaded
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Speaker 1: with branching palm, each order bright sung triumph and him
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Speaker 1: sung victorious, King, son, heire and Lord to him Dominion
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Speaker 1: given worthiest to reign, He celebrated, rode triumphant through mid
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Speaker 1: Heaven into the courts and temple of his mighty father,
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Speaker 1: throned on high, who into glory him receiv'd, where now
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Speaker 1: he sits at the right hand of bliss, Thus measuring
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Speaker 1: things in heav'n by things on earth at thy request,
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Speaker 1: and that thou mayest beware. By what is past to THEE,
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Speaker 1: I have revealed what might else to human race be
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Speaker 1: hid the discord which befell and war in heaven among
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Speaker 1: the angelic powers, and the deep fall of those too
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Speaker 1: high aspiring who rebelled with Satan. He who envies now
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Speaker 1: thy state, who now is plotting how he may seduce
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Speaker 1: THEE also from obedience that with him bereav'd of happiness,
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Speaker 1: Thou mayst partake his punishment eternal misery, which would be
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Speaker 1: all his solace and revenge as a despite done against
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Speaker 1: the most high THEE once to gain companion of his woe.
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Speaker 1: But listen not to his temptations. Warn thy weaker. Let
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Speaker 1: it profit THEE to have heard by terrible example the
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Speaker 1: reward of disobedience. Firm they might have stood, yet fell,
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Speaker 1: remember and fear to transgress. End of Book six, Part two,