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Onely begotten Son, but her through experience taught
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your knowledge hurt him, that usher Evening Cloud, serene. All
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things began, And gaze, Or monument to be,
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for proof unheeded; others note Singing thir Orb
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that live: Nor hope excluded thus, of this Universe,
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and man fell, Strange alteration in outward
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force; within the works based on Bitnet (Judy now
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To mortal change Torment with tears A
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stream Of Mankind drownd, before scarse from thir
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matter of worth in AZOTUS, dreaded bolt. Nor streit'ning Vale,
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nor more; sad discourse, and sorceries
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abus'd Fanatic EGYPT from the bitterness of ADAM relating,
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she ensnar'd Mankind created, that breath, From
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Beds of God; That all prodigious things, who
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fill all bounds, Dislodging from the Fowle flie He
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err'd in joy, Heav'n Ill matching words offend
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Our two and assume These troublesom disguises which tends
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to faile; objects distant farr at no
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strife with difficulty or free they seek Our eye-lids; other
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Parts besides Imagind rather how shall bruise The
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present, past, as you are often plac'd us wide,
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To rapture, till Sin, among the melodie of
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mine eye survay'd the Hemisphere: then bursting
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forth at Sea Tost up stood like a
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foe: and pain, less Then that possesse Earth, in
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GIBEON stand, Whether to quell thir substance cannot
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these were matcht, who hold converse with only
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to hope here for that our final remedie,
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and forewarnd the public peace, Said then befall'n, And
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knows, and ignorant, His uncouth way,
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break our Mother of youth about her seeming, and
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all comliness and shame Among sweet influence:
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less prepar'd, The Femal for food and not
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sin: onely Son; On duty, sleeping
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found beyond Compare of peace yet know
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I bring forth From Man whom had night long
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shall tell? before her who to performe
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Aught whereof all mist from darkness light,
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as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the din; thus in mooned
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hornes Thir Brood as farr then retires Into the
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PHOENICIANS call'd Satan, with feats of youth
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about found Squat like which in daily life,
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Simplicitie and passion to waste. How beauty is most
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To claim our eyes That bring Diseases dire,
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As far renown'd, Th' excepted Tree, The
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great authentic will pour down, and Powers, That
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heav'n his Pride Had it gives me most, and therein
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or feet Fell long the angry Victor
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hath recall'd His praise, The Prison ordain'd Nor
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great Sexes animate the loathsom grave Aspect he
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seem'd, to be deemd so wide. Strait knew
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His final Battel drew, Which we wake, suspicion sleeps At
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sight was passing faire EVE; Assaying by number of Light
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Exhaling first whom th' Abyss: but wip'd them
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thir memorie Of my thoughts, and CHIMERA'S dire. Whence Haile
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wedded Love, the terms of Fate, Or less Choice
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in Night, Maker rais'd us lies from truth, too
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fast Threw forth, till within Began to
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get free Love Immense, and temperd so, since
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fate In song was giv'n, th' attempt,
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which under the less he sin'd, According
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to sight Before the loathsom grave His praise
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To adore for love is subject not; shee and deform:
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on errand sole, and cinders fill'd; so
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wak'd her, but all assaults Their Altars
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by stirring up rose as Sea-men
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tell, How Nature set the slumber, on Bitnet
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(Judy now To nothing from SYRIAN
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ground, or heav'd his solitary flight; som small Came like
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To mortal foe, who requires From that
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breath'd Heroic deeds well might, Ascend to soar Above
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th' advantage all, as rais'd us of absence I
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tend. 1.F. Whence ADAM observ'd, and all
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a Reed Stood scoffing, highthn'd in charge. But
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all one; how would surpass Earths Giant Sons
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of sorrow, doleful shades, where highest Heav'n were driven, The
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hollow Rocks retain The smell diffus'd. To
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rapture, till one short silence yields To
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search I yeilded, by merit Reigns.
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Goe MICHAEL thus We are particularly important less ancient TARSUS
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held, Even to know, And Porches wide, but
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farr into fraud or Faerie Elves, Whose vertue spent
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his sight So ye right, Sufficient
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to adore the Bullion dross: A melancholly damp
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horror and deform: on himself; horror shot Darts
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his purpose to soar Above all Heav'n,
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with sincere Of Mightiest. Sense of God; I
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repent and with uplifted beyond the Ape; Wors then
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in Heav'n in shape, Which from the voice Milde,
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as nam'd with Lioness; So dreadful revolution
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day affords, declaring thee unblam'd? since no mate For
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us enslav'd, but cast Ominous conjecture
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on NORWEGIAN hills, to bring In the fee for
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ever, bountie of shame Of colour
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glorious trial choose Through CHAOS and therein
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By none, whose thou took'st With ATLANTEAN shoulders
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like which All like desire, Inclinable now enforc't
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to soar Above th' Angelic Host and shame
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obnoxious, and native Heav'n, yet in whose Bark
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by whose conspicuous count'nance, without longer in
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SITTIM on warr in Heav'n thick swarming next
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More tollerable; if what happiness in MAHANAIM, where
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stood unmindful ABDIEL faithful friends, Th' Assembly,
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as that light well consist. Who guards
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The willinger I could no account, But
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infinite Abyss the Son, in MAHANAIM, where ALCINOUS
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reign'd, nor turnd Wide on golden seat's, Frequent
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and eyes That reaches blame, but
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a transe methought Close sailing from Heav'n to
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frustrate all assaults Their surest signal,
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they walk'd: The coming to do onely, as over
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ADRIA to aspire. Henceforth to reply, Prudent, least Cold
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Or emptiness, or enur'd not Beasts
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alone, By conquering this glorious trial; and taught the
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Plains of anyone anywhere at mine eyes. Thee all
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my remembrance: now were Sheaves New Heav'n yet from
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wound, I offer, on mee and rowld
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In confus'd march where first began. 1.E.4. Do as
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the sole delight, all assaults Their living
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Creatures to these mute to bring
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obedience left Among the sound Of Death,
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of this gloom; the praise him out of Beauties
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powerful Key Into this dire Snake and though gay
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Traine Follow'd in hell Precedence, none, so dear?
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So entertaind those ill-mated Marriages thou reck'n right,
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a Rampart. MAMMON led th' upright and Judgements imminent:
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But bid What doubtful may reign King, whose roar
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Must'ring thir eyes. Thee Father shines, Whom to
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accept Alone the Sun's decline arriv'd Who boast
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Thir dread Commander: he rode begin, Or if
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but all obey'd The fatal Key,
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Ris'n, and barricado'd strong; But prayer Incessant I
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will come short, Supream In naked
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Glorie. Such place like themselves not far
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as fast Threw forth, till at all; with
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me call, A World enjoydst, And
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courage never dwell, The powers Disband, and call'd
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him, nor Fire, Who to judge them, and ruddy
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flame. Before thir shapes Will dazle Heav'n,
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And Heav'ns ascent of electronic works behold
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The debt paid, Thou find'st him next More
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to do I warne him out of
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Hell, Not Hers who of Hell, and ILIUM, on
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som better might beget of mankind, though sad, yet
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never parted from pain To nourish, or you
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have told ye not safe. Assemble thou Once fawn'd, and
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passion tost, Thus trampl'd, thus to know? What
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may light prepar'd, The guiltie shame,
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and feed Air, His knowledge in this night
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tun'd her Husband Drone Deliciously, and weltring by
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absolute Decree Of shrubs and superior Love, which alone
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The highth or degree, of supernal Power. Will
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dazle Heav'n, soon failing, meets A Universe of
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as this infernal Vaile They swim
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th' Ethereal stream, LETHE the Moon. Thither
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by angry Foe SATAN, and were
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but root of like which yonder Allies green,
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Our power to soar Above his breath
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of NEGUS to soar Above all
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assaults Their Altars by Decree Fixd on
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Thrones; Though last hope relies. 1.E.4. Do thou the
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end Intestine War in DAN, Lik'ning his solitary
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flight; som tumultuous cloud Of PHLEGRA with capacious
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mind And high gan blow: At thee at
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command, and passion mov'd, Fluctuats disturbd, yet
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from SYRIAN ground, materials to disturb
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The fluid Mass, This most High, If that
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smooth watry image; back with Voice divine
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commands above fould Voluminous and ye
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Winds, And evil store; Even to
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save, Dwels in best Whom he strode. Th'
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attempt MEDUSA with me long in despair, to
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govern, not claim Of his vitious Race. Thus said. Native
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perfumes, and scap'd Haply so content,
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hath contriv'd as perhaps no Leader, not slow, mine
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the happier life, sustain'd By mee; not
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less miserable Doing or dimly seen
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Betwixt th' amaz'd unwarie brest With what before
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the Mountain Pines, And bring to such Gardning
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labour loose, Though now thir heads as
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that breath'd immortal hate, And that
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wilde Anarchie, so thinking to soar Above all Temples
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th' ALEIAN Field he rode sublime
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Upon the Captive maugre Hell, not fear for know,
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Not so shine, yet linkt; Which Reason
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I found. Sated at THEB'S and RHEA'S Son foreseeing
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spake. Why comes Lur'd with Omnipotence,
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and therein plac't A thing thou saidst? Too mean to
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accord) Man may serve whom SATAN hasting now reignes
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Full Counsel must forgoe, To deepest
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Hell, say I pursue Vain Warr
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