The mystery of God, given me under pledge.378.
With goodness principl'd not to reject.760.
The jealousy of love, powerful of sway.791.
To satisfy thy lust: love seeks to have love.837.
Still more unusual are—
Yet fell: remember and fear to transgress.
Paradise Lost, VI, 912.
Of thrones and mighty seraphim prostrate.
Ibid., VI, 841.
But in the last example Milton's pronunciation would give the second syllable of 'prostrate' a weak accent to support the metrical stress. That he was willing to take the extreme risk, however, and actually invert the rhythm of the last foot, appears from unequivocal instances in Paradise Lost:
Which of us who beholds the bright surface.VI, 472.