Yet soon he heald; for Spirits that live throughout
Vital in every part, not as frail man [ 345 ]
Irailes, Heart or Head, Liver or Reines;
ot but by annihilating die;
Nor in thir liquid texture mortal wound
Receive, no more then 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, dense or rare.
Mean while in other parts like deeds deservd
Memorial, where the might of Gabriel fought, [ 355 ]
And with fiersignes piercd the deep array
Of Moloc furious King, who him defid
And at his Chariot wheeles t him bound
Threatnd, nor from the Holie One of Heavn
Refreind his tongue blasphemous; but anon [ 360 ]
Down 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 Adrameled Asmadai, [ 365 ]
Two potent Throhat to be less then Gods
Disdaind, but meahoughts 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 Ariod the violence
Of Ramiel scorcht and blasted overthrew.
I might relate of thousands, and thir names
Eternize here oh; but those elect
Angels tented 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
celd from Heavn and sacred memorie,
Nameless in dark obliviohem dwell. [ 380 ]