The subject of the elements is the earth, so called as being the lowest, or underlying the others, fire, air, and water. ↩

The pride of Lucifer, who lies at the centre of the earth, towards which all things gravitate, and

“Down upon which thrust all the other rocks.”

“Down upon which thrust all the other rocks.”

Milton, Paradise Lost , V 856, makes the rebel angels deny that they were created by God:⁠—