What angels shrink from: even the very devil
On this occasion his own work abhorr'd,
So surfeited with the infernal revel:
Though he himself had sharpen'd every sword,
It almost quench'd his innate thirst of evil.
(Here Satan's sole good work deserves insertion—
'Tis that he has both generals in reversion.)
VII.
Let's skip a few short years of hollow peace,
Which peopled earth no better, hell as wont,