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If your joynt poh affaires of hell
No detriment need feare, goe and be strong.
So saying h speed [ 410 ]
t Constellations held
Spreading ted Starrs lookt wan,
And Planets, Planet-strook, real Eclips
tan down
to e; on either side [ 415 ]
Disparted C exclaimd,
And he barrs assaild,
t scornd ion: te,
ide open and unguarded, Satan passd,
And all about found desolate; for those [ 420 ]
Appointed to sit t thir charge,
Floo t were all
Farr to tird, about the walls
Of Pand?monium, Citie and proud seate
Of Lucifer, so by allusion calld, [ 425 ]
Of t brigarr to Satan paragond.
t tche Grand
In Council sate, sollicitous w chance
Migercept t, so hee
Departing gave command, and they observd. [ 430 ]
As ar from his Russian Foe
By Astracan over the Snowie Plaines
Retires, or Bactrian Sophe hornes
Of turkis, leaves all e beyond
treate [ 435 ]
to tauris or Casbeen. So te
, left desert utmost hell
Many a dark League, reduct in careful atch
Round tropolis, and noing
Eac adventurer from the search [ 440 ]
Of Forrein orlds: unmarkt,
In sant
Of lo order, past; and from the dore
Of t Plutonian hall, invisible
Ascended ate [ 445 ]
Of ric texture spred, at th upper end
as plact in regal lustre. Down a while
e, and round