r. 549 PARADISE REGAIN'D, BOOK IV.' Out of the wood he (farts in wonted fhape, And in a carelefs mood thus to him laid. 450 Fair morning yet betides thee, Son of God, After- a difmal night ; I heard the wrack As earth and fky would mingle ; but myfelf Was diftant ; and thefe flaws, though mortals fear them As dang'rous to the pillar'd frame of Heaven, 455 Or to the earth's dark bafis underneath, Are to the main as inconfiderable, And harmlefs, if not wholefome, as a fneeze To man's leis univerfe, and loon are gone ; Yet as being oft times noxious where they light 460 On man, beafi, plant, wafteful and turbulent, Like turbulencies in th' affairs of men, Over whole heads they roar, and fecal to point, They oft fore-fignify and threaten ill : This tempeft at this defert moft was bent ; 465 Of men at thee, for only thou here dwell'it. Did d not tell thee, if thou didft rejed The puled feafon offer'd with my aid To win thy deftin'd feat, but wilt prolong All to the pufb of fate, purfue thy way 470 Of gaining David's throne no man knows when, For both the when and how is no where told, Thou (halt be what thou art ordain'd, no doubt ; For angels have proclaim'd it, but concealing The time and means : each aa is rightlieft done, 475 Trot when it muff, but when it may be belt. if thou obferve not this, be lure to find, What I foretold thee, many a hard affay Qf dangers, and adverfities, and pains, I. thou of Ifrael's fceptre get fall: hold; 480 Whereof this ominous night that clos'd thee round, So many terrors, voices, prodigies May warn thee, as a hire fore-going fign.
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