I am the mighty minister of hell

You mis-call heaven, and of the hellish crew

Of those false gods you worship for the True;

Who, to revenge her treason to the blind

Idolatry that has hoodwinkt mankind,

And his, whose halting wisdom after-knew

What her diviner virtue fore-divined,

By devilish plot and artifices thought

Each of them by the other to have caught;

But, thwarted by superior will, those eyes