in Book I of Spenser's Faerie Queene, she is represented as "griesly Night, with visage
deadly sad" (I.5.172), testifying that "I the mother bee/ Of falshood" (I.5.240-41).
The eldest of divinities, she has unimpeded access to the depths of Hell. In Paradise
Lost Night dwells with Chaos in the "dark/ Illimitable ocean without bound" (II.891-92)
from which God creates Hell. Whatever Victor thinks he is doing by solemnly invoking
Night to aid him in his revenge, it is clear, by all traditional associations, that
no good will come of it.
The observant reader may recall that the Creature invoked figures associated with
the daytime in swearing before Victor that, if he were given a partner, he would never
trouble his maker again (see II:9:17).