Might fuddenly inflict; that paft, return'd 345 By night, and lift'ning where the hapless pair fun rofe in Aries, he fteers his courfe which underflood -350 354 Thy But the fenfe evidently fhows that ver. 312. Thy trophies, which thou view'ft as not thine own; My heart, which by a fecret harmony Still moves with thine, join'd in connexion sweet, That thou on earth hadft profper'd, which thy looks Now alfo evidence, but ftrait I felt 361 Though distant from thee worlds between, yet felt That I must after thee with this thy son, Such fatal consequence unites us three: Hell could no longer hold us in her bounds, 363 Nor this unvoyageable gulf obfcure Detain from following thy illustrious track. Within Hell gates till now, thou us impower'd 372 To fortify thus far, and overlay With this portentous bridge the dark abyss. Thine now is all this world; thy virtue' hath won 368. Thou hast achiev'd our liberty, confin'd Within Hell gates till now, -] What liberty confin'd in Hell? a mere contradiction, fays Dr. Bentley. He therefore reads Us, us confin'd till now in Hell. But our is the fame as of us and Milton means, the liberty of us confin'd till now in Hell. What See more inftances of this IV. 129. 381. His quadrature, from thy t bicular world] This wer is orbicular or round; the empyreal Heaven is a quadrature or fquare. Our author had faid before, Book II. 1048. that it was undetermin's fquare or round, and fo it might be What thy hands builded not, thy wisdom gain'd Antagonist of Heav'n's almighty king) Th' infernal empire, that fo near Heav'n's door to Satan viewing it at that diftance: But here he follows the opinion of Gaffendus and others, who say that the Empyréum or Heaven of Heavens is of a fquare figure becaufe the holy city in the Revelation is fo defcrib'd, Rev. XXI. 16. And the city lieth four-fquare, and the length is as large as the breadth. 380 390 Mine 395 Mine with this glorious work, and made one realm Chiefly on Man, fole lord of all declar'd, Him firft make fure your thrall, and lastly kill. 400 My the fame words as Mofes does Jo fhua. Deut. XXXI. 7, 8. 412. Spreading their bane ;] Ovid's defcription of the journey of Envy to Athens, and Milton's of Sin and Death's to Paradife, have a great imitates, he adds a greatnefs to it; resemblance. But whatever Milton as, in this place, he alters Ovid's flowers, herbs, people and cities to ftars, planets and worlds. Ovid. Met. II. 791. Quacunque ingreditur,florentia pro- My fubftitutes I fend ye, and create If your joint pow'r prevail, th' affairs of Hell No detriment need fear; go and be ftrong. 405 So faying he difmifs'd them; they with speed 410 Their course through thickest constellations held, Spreading their bane; the blafted stars look'd wan, And planets, planet-ftruck, real eclipse Then fuffer'd. Th' other way Satan went down The Ufci quel fozzo vomito d' inferno, So Taffo fpeaking of Alecto. Gier. Si parte, e doue paffa i campi lieti 413. And planets, planet-ftruck,] We fay of a thing when it is blafted and wither'd, that it is planet-ftruck; and this is now applied to the planets themfelves. And what a fublime idea doth it give us of the devaftations of Sin and Death! 417. And |