Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.
Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.
Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?
Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
'Paradise Lost' is one of the books which the reader admires and lays down, and forgets to take up again. None ever wished it longer than it is.