deformed rout Enter’dand foul disorder

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ronesthat to be less then Gods
Disdain’dbut meaner thoughts learnd in thir flight
Mangl’d with gastly wounds through Plate and Maile.
Nor stood unmindful ABDIEL to annoy
The Atheist crewbut with redoubl’d blow
ARIEL and ARIOCand the violence
Of RAMIEL scorcht and blasted overthrew.
I might relate of thousandsand thir names
Eternize here on Earth; but those elect
Angels contented with thir fame in Heav’n
Seek not the praise of men: the other sort
In might though wondrous and in Acts of Warr
Nor of Renown less eageryet by doome
Canceld from Heav’n and sacred memorie
Nameless in dark oblivion let them dwell.
For strength from Truth divided and from Just
Illaudablenaught merits but dispraise
And ignominieyet to glorie aspires
Vain gloriousand through infamie seeks fame:
Therfore Eternal silence be thir doome.
“And now thir mightiest quelldthe battel swerv’d
With many an inrode gor’d; deformed rout
Enter’dand foul disorder; all the ground
With shiverd armour strow’nand on a heap
Chariot and Charioter lay overturnd
And fierie foaming Steeds; what stoodrecoyld
Oreweariedthrough the faint Satanic Host
Defensive scarseor with pale fear surpris’d
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