Imaginations thus displayed:-

I should be much for open war, O Peers, As not behind in hate, if what was urged Main reason to persuade immediate war Did not dissuade me most, and seem to cast Ominous conjecture on the whole success; When he who most excels in fact of arms,
In what he counsels and in what excels Mistrustful, grounds his courage on despair and utter dissolution, as the scope of all his aim, after some dire revenge.
High on a Throne of Royal State, which far outshone the wealth of ORMUS and of IND, or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her Kings BARBARIC Pearl and Gold,
Satan exalted sat, by merit raids’ To that bad eminence; and from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond thus high, insatiate to pursue Vain War with Heav'n, and by success untaught His proud imaginations thus displayed.