Sleep on, Blest pair; and O yet happiest if ye seek No happier state, and know to know no more.

Now had night measur'd with her shaddowie Cone Half way up Hill this vast Sublunar Vault, And from thir Ivorie Port the Cherubim Forth issuing at th' accustomd hour stood armd To thir night watches in warlike Parade, When GABRIEL to his next in power thus spake.

UZZIEL, half these draw off, and coast the South With strictest watch; these other wheel the North, Our circuit meets full West.

As flame they part Half wheeling to the Shield, half to the Spear.

From these, two strong and suttle Spirits he calld That neer him stood, and gave them thus in charge.