nig, [ 645 ]

    Ere  visage turnd,

    Admonisrait was known

    the seavn

    to hrone

    Stand ready at command, and are his Eyes [ 650 ]

    t run to th

    Bear  errands over moist and dry,

    Ore Sea and Land; an tes;

    Uriel, for ts t stand

    In sig, [ 655 ]

    t art   autic will

    Interpreter t o bring,

    tend;

    And  likeliest by supream decree

    Like o obtain, and as his Eye [ 660 ]

    to visit oft tion round;

    Unspeakable desire to see, and know

    All t chiefly Man,

    and favour, him for whom

    All these his works so wondrous he ordaind, [ 665 ]

    me from the Quires of Cherubim

    Alone test Serapell

    In wh Man

    , or fixed seat h none,

    But all to dwell; [ 670 ]

    t I may find  gaze,

    Or open admiration him behold

    On or owd

    orlds, and on whese graces powrd;

    t bot, [ 675 ]

    the Universal Maker we may praise;

    ly  his Rebell Foes

    to deepest o repair t loss

    Created this new happie Race of Men

    to serve ter: wise are all his wayes. [ 680 ]

    So spake the false dissembler unperceivd;

    For neither Man nor Angel can discern

    walks

    Invisible, except to God alone,

    By h: [ 685 ]

    And oft though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps

    At e, and to simplicitie

    Resigns hinks no ill

    here no ill seems: hich now for once beguild

    Uriel, t of the Sun,