Lucifer monologue (Act 1) — Vondel's Lucifer

Now swear I by my crown, upon this chance To venture all, to raise my seat amid The firmament, the spheres, the splendor of The stars above. The Heaven of Heavens shall then My palace be, the rainbow be my throne, 290 The starry vast, my court, while, down beneath, The Earth shall be my foot-stool and support. I shall, then swiftly drawn through air and light, High-seated on a chariot of cloud, With lightning stroke and thunder grind to dust Whate'er above, around, below, doth us Oppose, were it God's Marshal grand himself. Yea, e'er we yield, these empyrean vaults. Proud in their towering masonry, shall burst With all their airy arches and dissolve 300 Before our eyes: this huge and joint-racked Earth, Like a misshapen monster, lifeless lie; This wondrous universe to chaos fall. And to its primal desolation change. Who dares, who dares defy great Lucifer? We cite Apollion.