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Whate'er his wrath, which he calls justice, bids;—
His wrath, which one day will destroy ye both!"
He spake, and at her words the hellish Pest
Forbore, then these to her Satan returned:
"So strange thy outcry, and thy words so strange
Thou interposest, that my sudden hand,
Prevented, spares to tell thee yet by deeds
What it intends, till first I know of thee740
What thing thou art, thus double-formed, and why,
In this infernal vale first met, thou callest
Me father, and that phantasm callest my son.
I know thee not, nor ever saw till now
Sight more detestable than him and thee."
To whom thus the portress of Hell-gate replied:
"Hast thou forgotten me then? and do I seem
Now in thine eye so foul? once deemed so fair
In Heaven; when at the assembly, and in sight
Of all the Seraphim, with thee combined750
In bold conspiracy against Heaven's King,
All on a sudden miserable pain
Surprised thee, dim thine eyes, and dizzy swum
In darkness, while thy head flames thick and fast
Threw forth; till, on the left side opening wide,
Likest to thee in shape and countenance bright,