BooK VI. PARADISE LOST. 157 Where boldeft ? Though to fight unconquerable, His puffance Orating in th' Almighty's aid !) I mean to try ; whole reafon I have try'd Unfoupd and falfe : nor is it ought but jutl, That he who in debate of truth bath won, Should win in arms; in both diiputes alike V iator : though brutifh that conteft and foul, When reafon bath to deal with force ; yet fo 125 Molt realm is that reafon overcome. 120 So pondering, and from his armed Peers Forth-flepping oppofitt, half way he met His daring foe, at this pevention more Incens'd, and thus fecurely him defy'd. 130 Proud art thou met ? thy hope was to have reach'd The height of thy afpiring unoppos'd, The Throne of God unguarded, and his fide Abandon'd at the terror of thy pow'r, Or potent tongue : fool ! not to think how vain 135 Againft th' Omnipotent to rife in arms : Who, out of Mullett things, could without end Have rais'd inceffant armies to deleat Thy folly ; or with folitary hand, Reaching beyond all limit at one blow, 14o Unaided could have finifh'd thee, and whelm'd Thy legions under darknefs; but thou feeft All ate not of thy train ; there be who faith Prefer, and piety to God, though then To thee not vifible, when I alone 14$ Seem'd in thy world erroneous to diffent From all : my Seat thou feet; now learn too late How few fometimes may know, when thoufands err. Whom the grand foe, with fcornful eye afkance, Thus anfwer'd. III for thee, but in wifh'd hour 150 For
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