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Yet soon he heald; 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 deservd
Memorial, where the might of Gabriel fought, [ 355 ]
And with fierce Ensignes piercd the deep array
Of Moloc furious King, who him defid
And at his Chariot wheeles 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 shatterd Armes
And uncouth paine fled bellowing. On each wing
Uriel and Raphael his vaunting foe,
Though huge, and in a Rock of Diamond Armd,
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 redoubld 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
Canceld from Heavn and sacred memorie,
Nameless in dark oblivion let them dwell. [ 380 ]