Chapter 9 8

Yet soon he healed; for Spirits that live throughout Vital in every part, not as frail man [ 345 ] In Entrailes, Heart or Head, Liver or Reines; Cannot but by annihilating die; Nor in thir liquid texture mortal wound Receive, no more then can the fluid Aire: All Heart they live, all Head, all Eye, all Eare, [ 350 ] All Intellect, all Sense, and as they please, They Limb themselves, and colour, shape or size Assume, as likes them best, condense or rare. Mean while in other parts like deeds deserve Memorial, where the might of Gabriel fought, [ 355 ] And with fierce Ensignes pierced the deep array

Of Moloc furious King, who he defid And at his Chariot wheels to drag him bound Threatnd, nor from the Holie One of Heavn Refreind his tongue blasphemous; but anon [ 360 ] Down clovn to the waste, with shattered Armes And uncouth paine fled bellowing. On each wing Uriel and Raphael his vaunting foe, Though huge, and in a Rock of Diamond Arm, Vanquishd Adramelec, and Asmadai, [365] Two potent Thrones, that to be less then Gods Disdaind, but meaner thoughts learnd in thir flight, Mangld with gastly wounds through Plate and Maile, Nor stood unmindful Abdiel to annoy The Atheist crew, but with redouble blow [ 370 ]

Ariel and Arioc, and the violence Of Ramiel scorcht and blasted overthrew. I might relate of thousands, and thir names Eternize here on Earth; but those elect Angels contented with thir fame in Heavn [ 375 ] Seek not the praise of men: the other sort In might though wondrous and in Acts of Warr, Nor of Renown less eager, yet by doome Canceled from Heavn and sacred memory, Nameless in dark oblivion let them dwell. [ 380 ]