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This by the way; 'tis not mine to record
What Angels shrink from: even the very Devil
On this occasion his own work abhorred,
So surfeited with the infernal revel:
Though he himself had sharpered every sword,
It almost quenched his innate thirst of evil.

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(Here Satan's sole good work deserves insertion—
'Tis, that he has both Generals in reversion.)