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1
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Beelzebub’s appearance change

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Cloth’d with transcendent brightness didst out-shine

Myriads though bright:

2
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Satan reinforcing their equal status

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‘mutual league,’ ‘United’, ‘equal hope’, ‘joynd with me’, ‘misery hath joynd/ In equal ruin’

3
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Satan suggesting the battle was fair

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His utmost power with adverse power oppos’d, ‘fierce contention’

4
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Satan’s solution

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To wage by force or guile eternal Warr

Irreconcileable,

5
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allusions to Civil War

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‘Tyranny of Heav’n.’

6
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Satan’s actual feelings after speaking

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So spake th’ Apostate Angel, though in pain,

Vaunting aloud, but rackt with deep despare:

7
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Beelzebub talking about the state they are in now

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‘for the mind and spirit remains
Invincible’, ‘happy state
Here swallow’d up in endless misery.’

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Beelzebub suggesting the devils were slaves

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him mightier service as his thralls