46 PARADISE LOST. BOOK V. Than what this garden is to all the earth, And all the fea ; from one entire globofe Stretch'd into longitude) which having pafs'd, At length into the limits of the north 755 They cam; and Satan to his royal teat High on a hill, far blazing (as a mount Rais'd on a mount) with pyramids, and tow'rs From diamond quarries hew'n, and rocks of gold, The Palace of great Lucifer ; ((o call 760 That firudure in the dialed of men Interpreted) which not long after he, Affedmg all equality with God, In imitation of that mount whereon Meffiab was declar'd in fight of heav'n, 765 The Mountain of the Congregation call'd : For thither he affembled all his train, Pretending fo commanded, to confult About the great reception of their King, Thither to come ; and with calumnious art 770. Of counterfeited truth thus held their ears. Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms,Virtues, Pow' s ! If thefe tnagnific titles yet remain Not merely titular ! fince by decree Another now hath to himfelf ingrofs'd All pow'r, and us eclips'd under the name Of King anointed ; for whom all this hafte Of midnight-march, and hurry'd meeting here, This only to confult, how w4, may belt With what may be devis'd of honors new 750 Receive him, coming to receive from us Knee-tribute yet unpaid, prortration vile ! Too much to one ! but double how indur'd, To one, and to his image now proctaim'd ? But what if better couniels might ere 795' Our 775
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