While to their native land with joy they hafte,
As the Red Sea and Jordan once he cleft,
When to the promis'd land their fathers pass'd;
To his due time and providence I leave them.

So fpake Ifrael's true king, and to the Fiend
Made answer meet, that made void all his wiles.
So fares it when with truth falfhood contends.

the
way of the kings of the east
might be prepared: and to Ifa. XI.
15, 16. And the Lord fhall utterly
deftroy the tongue of the Egyptian
fea, and with his mighty wind fhall
he shake his hand over the river,
and fball fmite it in the feven ftreams,

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and make men go over dry-fhod: And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left from Affyria, like as it was to Ifrael in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

The end of the Third Book.

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BOOK IV.

Erplex'd and troubled at his bad fuccefs

The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply,
Discover'd in his fraud, thrown from his hope
So oft, and the perfuafive rhetoric

That fleek'd his tongue, and won so much on Eve, 5
So little here, nay loft; but Eve was Eve,
This far his over-match, who self-deceiv'd
And rafh, beforehand had no better weigh'd
The strength he was to cope with, or his own:
But as a man who had been matchless held

7. This far his over-match, who Self-deceiv'd &c.] An ufual conftruction in Milton, This far an over-match for him, who felf-deceiv'd and rafh, before-hand had no better weigh'd &c. Neither is this inconfiftent, as Mr. Thyer conceives it to be, with what Satan had declar'd in Book II. 131.

Have found him, view'd him,
tafted him, but find
Far other labor to be undergone
&'c.

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