To our destruction: if there be in Hell
Fear to be worse
destroy'd: what can be worse
[ 85 ]Then to dwell here,
driv'n out from bliss,
condemn'dIn this abhorred deep to utter woe;
Where pain of unextinguishable fire
Must
exercise us without hope of end
The
Vassals of his anger, when the Scourge
[ 90 ]Inexorably, and the torturing hour
Calls us to
Penance? More
destroy'd then thus
We should be quite
abolisht and expire.
What fear we then? what doubt we to incense
His utmost ire? which to the
highth enrag'd,
[ 95 ]Will either quite consume us, and reduce
To nothing this
essential, happier
farrThen miserable to have eternal being:
