`112 PARADISE LOST. BOOK IV. Shower'd rotes, which the morn repair'd. Sleep on Bleft pair ; and 0 ! yet happieft, if ye Peek No happier date, and know to know no more. 775 Now had night meafur'd with her fhados,vy cone Half way up hill this vaft fublunar .vault, And from their ivory port the Cherubim Forth iffuing at th' accullom'd hour, flood arm'd To their night watches in warlike parade, 780 When Gabriel to his next in pow'r thus fpake. Uzziel, half there draw off, and coaff the fouth With ftrieteft watch : thefe other wheel the north, Our circuit meets full weft. As flame they part Half wheeling to the fbield, halt to the fpear 785 From thete, two thong and fubtle fpirits he call'd, That near him ftood, and gave them thus in charge.. Ithuriel and Z Thon, with wing'd (peed Search through this garden, leave unfearch'd no nook; But chiefly where thole two fair creatures lodge, 790 Now laid perhaps asleep fecure of harm. This evening from the fun's decline arriv'd, Who tells of tome infernal fpirit leen Hitherward bent (who could have thought ?) efcap'd The bars of hell ; on errand bad no doubt : 795 Such where ye find, feize fall, and hither bring. So laying, on he led his radiant files, Dazzling the moon ; there to the bow'r In fearch of whom they fought : him there they found Squat like a toad, dole at the ear of Eve ; Soo Affaying by his devilifh art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge 111ufions as he lift, phantafms and dreams :
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