'Among innumerable false, unmoved,
Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified,
His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal;
Nor number nor example with him wrought
To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind,
Though single.'
—Paradise Lost, Book v. 898-903.
The following, from 'Paradise Regained,' Book i. 196-208, Milton might have written of himself:
'Oh, what a multitude of thoughts at once
Awakened in me swarm, while I consider