“Thus, measuring things in Heaven by things on Earth, At thy request, and that thou may’st beware By what is past, to thee I have revealed What might have else to human race been hid; The discord which befell, and war in Heaven Among the angelic powers, and the deep fall Of those too high aspiring, who rebelled With Satan: he who envies now thy state, Who now is plotting how he may seduce Thee also from obedience, that, with him Bereaved of happiness, thou may’st partake His punishment, eternal misery; Which would be all his solace and revenge, As a despite done against the Most High, Thee once to gain companion of his woe. But listen not to his temptations; warn Thy weaker; let it profit thee to have heard, By terrible example, the reward Of disobedience. Firm they might have stood, Yet fell; remember, and fear to transgress.”