Boox.IL PARADISE.' LOST. Part on the plain, or in the air fublime Upon the wing, or 414-wilt race contend, As'at th' Olympian games or Pythian fields : 530 Part curb their fiery needs, or (hurl the goal With rapid wheels, or fronted brigads form. As when, to warn proud cities, war appears Wag'd in the troubl'd fky, and armies rufh To baud in the clouds, before each van 535 PAck focal the wry Knights, and couch their fpears Till thickalt legions dote ; with feats of arms From either end of beav'n the welkin burns. Others, with vart Typha?na rage, more fell Read up both rocks and hills, and ride the air 540 Id whirlwind : hell fcarce holds the wild uproar. As when Alcides from 0.Echaiia crown'd With conquettifelt th' invenom'd robe, and tore Through pain up by the roots Theffalian Pines, And Lichas from the top of OEta threw 545 Into th' Luboic Sea. Others more mild, Recreated in a filen: valley, fing With notes Angelical to many a harp Their own heroic deeds and haplefs fail By doom of battel : and complain that fate 550 Free virtue (hoed inthrali to force or chance. Their long was partial, but the harmony (What could it Ids when fpirits immortal ling ?) Sufpencled hell, and took with ravishment The thronging audience. In difcourte more Tweet 555 (For eloquence the foul, Fong charms the fenfe) Others apart fat on a hill retied, In thoughts more elevate, and reaCon'd high, Of providence, foreknowledge, will and fate, Fixt fate, flee will, .foreknowledge abiblute ; 36o And found no end, in wandring mazes loft. Of good and evil much they argu'd then, 45 Of a.
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