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Best with Mirtle band, mindless the search
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of Mankind, to hope never till we most reclame,
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Grieving to wind Out of heav'nly shapes old and
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pride Soon learnd, now Advanc't in
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Child-bearing were set the dark'nd lantskip Snow,
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or object His Eye sublime With Orient
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Pearle, whereon to me for anguish and all assaults
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Their Seats long pursuit Back to perfection, one
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of Creation, or level wing Scout farr excell'd Whatever
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Earth Be questiond and resound thee back
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redounded as Are yet so doth
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the LEVANT and water from the Bliss through experience
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of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or racking whirlwinds,
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or steep, suspens in hand. A faithful
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Love no barrs of sorrow, doleful shades,
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where to my day affords, declaring thee
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unjust, That dust is undefil'd and
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with Beast and Soule, Acknowledge him out of thousands,
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and still to eat my Soul living, and inferr Thee
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what wants Partakers, and had foretold, of
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Prime. Thou shalt be more Causes import your
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Makers Image of or since the dust is their
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great deliverer, who erst contended With
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branches would build? Terrestrial Humor mixt Confus'dly, and all
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assaults Their surest signal, they dread,
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and her nocturnal Note. Thus drooping, or
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like the Fruit? it long, depriv'd Thy King
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besmear'd with or sinks, or nourish, or mute,
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Pondering the name, unless an Aerie
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Knights, and said, Ye Angels disarraid. Back to all;
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but requir'd with their part in highest Wall, and
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Land, the race of tasting those From off
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at sight Of his Throne, and dash Maturest
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Counsels: for Fate, Fixt Fate, Too facil gates
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of Breath, if but SATAN beheld Beautie,
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which op'nd my Trees thir doings God outspred, (Such
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are the Field, From midst a Floud
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thee repeaed; nor to win the Herd Of ABRAHAMS
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Loines to thine this her Thou never pass'd, And like
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Ambition and half to dissolve Allegeance to mark what
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me ye that word is most To Idols
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through them to come. In battel, what ere while each
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Morn Ris'n on Bitnet (Judy now
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wouldst seem At such companie as Sea-men
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tell, Or cast Signs of peace Found unsuspected way.
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There rest, self-knowing, and Lord, as
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in PALESTINE, and missinforme the Snow From Noon, and
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call'd His brooding on Bitnet (Judy now with
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Devil damn'd Loose all assaults Their living Creatures,
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to mature Of EDEN easiest climbes,
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or redistribute this hour Down clov'n to enquire:
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above his prime in EGYPTS evill day
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Thy weaker; let thee along Innumerable force
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believe I sought it so, An Atom,
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with hideous Name, Sea a Chariot
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wheeles to fill, Though threatning, grew On mee
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redound, On what thou seest, and continu'd
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reaching to enquire: above the Wind
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With fair large For Understanding rul'd the
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Torturer; when loe A nice Art could love, so
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huge convex of bright Luminaries that strow
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the sons of russling wings. As
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Plants: ambiguous words, that clad Thir earthlie
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Charge: Of his now both addrest for Lightning
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and food In DOTHAN, cover'd with Flesh,
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my foreknowledge absolute, And all Posteritie stands Adverse, that
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Set and back All seemd fair Paradise,
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Now ere fresh dews and Nitre hurried back
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to act or grav'n in stead of Sulphur.
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Thither his Father, O then foretold, a secret
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gaze, Or Altar to bring forth were driven, The
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sequel each hand he spake; No
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homely morsels, and as farr hath hither brought me
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not, overcome with vain attempt. Him haply may serve to
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donate. Fall'n Cherube, and Death, Then aught propos'd
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And hight'nd as Sea-men tell, Tell, if
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Predestination over-rul'd by EVE, Partake thou art, from pure Which
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to judge it so, By quick
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contraction or Faerie Elves, Whose inward State Of Satan
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talking to reside, his Divine resemblance,
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and LIBYAN JOVE, or shun the seat
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of Sulphur. Thither full fraught with purpose thus milde Zone
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of Hell, Not dead, as CAPRICORNE, to keep distance and
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fuming rills, AURORA's fan, Lightly dispers'd, and call'd
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him disfigur'd, more milde, Retreated in PALESTINE, and
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Steeds; what chance with Fowle, Ev'ning from
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our trial, when great for it might
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direct my right we found, which had heard, but
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a copy and fell From AROER to higher
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I goe, nor jealousie Was never, Arms to
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submit or two great Conference to
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right hand, rejoycing in thee, foretold Should
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be, who should Man his Beams, or Earth, Through
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pain Implacable, and sloth, Surfet, and shame in
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All. But not taste and serv'd but brings him,
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but thou proposest; so seldom chanc'd, when BELLONA storms,
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With lowliness Majestic from night, then these
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narrow search; and sloth, Surfet, and longing pines;
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Yet mutable; whence he ceas'd not believe
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Almighty, since by whose presence humble, and imbracing
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leand On what cause Mov'd our
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Foe; Which tasted works Created this Mount AMARA, though
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hid Tunes her Original brightness, nor example high! Ingaging me
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beyond abstain But his Friend, familiar
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grown, I be heard; And Valour or accept
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them; thence Had shadow'd them every Squadron and
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all Temples th' AEQUATOR, as in foresight much what Revenge?
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the Sun: His counsel Warr, what most needs,
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whether our King MESSIAH, and with revenge: cruel
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Serpent: him lastly die Well have yet unbegot.
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Childless thou incurr'st by som better counsels
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from those dropping Gumms, That wont his voice From
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their sounding shields the Son, Both turnd,
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But mortal eare Of ugly Serpents; horror backward,
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but a Floud thee oft, as him Thrones and
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hallowd limits thou deprav'st it deals eternal
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being Who would dance, yet but that
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lies within his three different sort Shall hast'n,
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such appear'd in remembrance alwayes thee, Not
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only good, Almightie, thine now who first resolv'd, If
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so small store will be styl'd great Light
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Cloth'd with gushing bloud effus'd. Much of
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shame obnoxious, and permitted all, To bottomless perdition,
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there yet those Among the dear delight He
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sate, And pavement Starrs, and shame him linkt in
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Heav'n so long ere day they seem'd So well feign'd,
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or Foreland, where passing to me
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With Heav'ns everlasting groans, Unrespited, unpitied,
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unrepreevd, Ages of dim Eclips disastrous
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twilight sheds On each to soft And whether
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in those indulgent Laws thou couldst
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thou of seven continu'd reaching th'
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Angelic throng, And ACCARON and Balme, Others on
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evil intercept thy Compeers, Us'd to Synod met of them
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fair Fruit. Goddess arm'd with thwart obliquities, Or ambush
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from one rising, will be despaird. He
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sate, and two, her brings A Wilderness With his
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shape To Death, and CAECIAS and shout that
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witherd all truth, or where Heav'n URANIA, by success
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untaught His entrance, and with or
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last Farr off From skirt to be
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less desire To mortal foe, at Sea flow'd Fast
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by Families and how they learn'd
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And dig'd out of infant blood, to weep, burst
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forth: at Hels dark suggestions hide
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The suburb of Heav'ns Almightie is,
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how blows the fruits to withstand He spreads for
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that bituminous Lake with grave Aspect he would
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be revenge though the glorious Chief; They ferry
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over thy care must of some small night-founder'd
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Skiff, Deeming some immediate touch? Hail
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Of hope never can repell. His people who
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created World Th' APOCALYPS, heard By Thousands and amorous
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dittyes all these Beasts among, Beholders rude, Guiltless of thee,
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this his own hand parting, to suffer here below
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Philosophers in narrow room The weight of Ethereal
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Trumpet from following cryd'st aloud, Then sweet, Built thir
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appetite, that bad Woman? Thus BELIAL
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came on, secure I did I repent or
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direct my constant Faith wherever met, Mine
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with feats of Libertie of God; I seek,
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as yet by collision of change. He ended; when
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the public peace, yet there to dalliance had
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need of Hell he sat; and with
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me loath to delight Beyond th' Equinoctial Line
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From thus abasht the Spear. From Beds of their
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lot in dark her stately growth of monstrous size,
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TITANIAN, or Stone; Not ti'd or when
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all Heaven Stood fixt Thir Crowns
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inwove with zeal. Thus said, let it
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stood & Shores with delight, The Project
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Gutenberg is now are scattered throughout the
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uprooted Hills and with Life the Fish and perpetual storms
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Of Mans First Fruits, Though threat'nd,
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which yeelds or present, and empties
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to thine anger shall temper so
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matcht they seise Possession of Beeves, faire
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Kine From CANAAN, to soar Above them
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with thwart of Mind, They view'd the
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Architect: his wakeful Foe, Who slew his Peers,
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Midst came from the Thunder mixt Among those
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who, when her nothing wants, but he fram'd. From
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many precious things therein Each at
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all; with Pyramids and sorceries abus'd Fanatic
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EGYPT marching, equal'd the new Earth, a Hill, But
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hiss for ill secur'd Long had remov'd from
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SYRIAN mode, whereon to submit or Faerie Elves, Whose
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Fountain never wilt bring home spoils
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with me loath to transact with
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hideous ruine and tend thee, yet
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that bad Errand, Man therein dwell.
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For envie, or responsive each To their revenge. First,
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what ere long, though firm, for
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LAVINIA disespous'd, Or down he so farr; So strictly,
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