Rais’d, as of some great matter to begin,

As when of old some orator renown’d

In Athens or free Rome, where eloquence

Flourish’d, since mute, to some great cause address’d,

Stood in himself collected, while each part,

Motion, each act, won audience ere the tongue;

Sometimes in height began, as no delay

Of preface brooking through his zeal of right;

So standing, moving, or to height upgrown,

The Tempter all-impassion’d thus began:’[[96]]