14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
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14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
In song and dance about the sacred Hill,
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare [ 620 ]
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles
Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular
Then most, when most irregular they seem,
And in thir motions harmonie Divine [ 625 ]
So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd
(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Wee ours for change delectable, not need)
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn [ 630 ]
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Tables are set, and on a sudden pild
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows
In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,
Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. [ 635 ]
On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Of surfet where full measure onely bounds
Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd [ 640 ]
With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
From that high mount of God, whence light & shade
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd
To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there [ 645 ]
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng [ 650 ]
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
By living Streams among the Trees of Life,
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course [ 655 ]
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Alternate all night long: but not so wakd
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Satan, so call him now, his former name
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, [ 660 ]
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
In favour and præeminence, yet fraught
With envie against the Son of God, that day
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Messiah King anointed, could not beare
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. [ 665 ]
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre
Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave
Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream [ 670 ]
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
14,So spake th Omnipotent, and with his words,All seemd well pleasd, all seemd, but were not all.,That day, as other solemn dayes, they spent,In song and dance about the sacred Hill,,Mystical dance, which yonder starrie Spheare 620 ,Of Planets and of fixt in all her Wheeles,Resembles nearest, mazes intricate,,Eccentric, intervolvd, yet regular,Then most, when most irregular they seem,,And in thir motions harmonie Divine 625 ,So smooths her charming tones, that Gods own ear,Listens delighted. Eevning now approachd,(For wee have also our Eevning and our Morn,,Wee ours for change delectable, not need),Forthwith from dance to sweet repast they turn 630 ,Desirous, all in Circles as they stood,,Tables are set, and on a sudden pild,With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows,In Pearl, in Diamond, and massie Gold,,Fruit of delicious Vines, the growth of Heavn. 635 ,On flours reposd, and with fresh flourets crownd,,They eate, they drink, and inmunion sweet,Quaff immortalitie and joy, secure,Of surfet where full measure onely bounds,Excess, before th all bounteous King, who showrd 640 ,With copious hand, rejoycing in thir joy.,Now when ambrosial Night with Clouds exhald,From that high mount of God, whence light & shade,Spring both, the face of brightest Heavn had changd,To grateful Twilight (for Nightes not there 645 ,In darker veile) and roseat Dews disposd,All but the unsleeping eyes of God to rest,,Wide over all the Plain, and wider farr,Then all this globous Earth in Plain out spred,,(Such are the Courts of God) th Angelic throng 650 ,Disperst in Bands and Files thir Camp extend,By living Streams among the Trees of Life,,Pavilions numberless, and sudden reard,,Celestial Tabernacles, where they slept,Fannd with coole Winds, save those who in thir course 655 ,Melodious Hymns about the sovran Throne,Alternate all night long: but not so wakd,Satan, so call him now, his former name,Is heard no more in Heavn; he of the first,,If not the first Arch-Angel, great in Power, 660 ,In favour and præeminence, yet fraught,With envie against the Son of God, that day,Honourd by his great Father, and proclaimd,Messiah King anointed, could not beare,Through pride that sight, & thought himself impaird. 665 ,Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain,,Soon as midnight brought on the duskie houre,Friendliest to sleep and silence, he resolvd,With all his Legions to dislodge, and leave,Unworshipt, unobeyd the Throne supream 670 ,Contemptuous, and his next subordinate,Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.
Contemptuous, and his next subordinate
Awakning, thus to him in secret spake.