The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

Hell has no benefits, only torture.

It is Chastity, my brother. She that has that is clad in complete steel.

Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or decrepit age! Light, the prime work of God, to me is extinct, and all her various objects of delight annulled, which might in part my grief have eased. Inferior to the vilest now become of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, they creep, yet see; I, dark in light, exposed to daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, within doors, or without, still as a fool, in power of others, never in my own; scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.

Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude, they then begin to fail.

Pandemonium, the high capital Of Satan and his peers.