Clothed with transcendent brightness, didst outshine
Myriads, though bright.’”
(I. 81–87.)
And then, as Satan proceeds, his mind is directed to his own departed glory.
“Yet not for those [i.e. the force of the Almighty’s arms]
Nor what the potent Victor in his rage
Can else inflict, do I repent, or change,
Though changed in outward lustre, that fixed mind,
And high disdain from sense of injured merit.”
(I. 94–98.)