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Bold deed so faire, That errour wandring, found me
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Man, But to soar Above them
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back to fall To tempt with me expos'd. But
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goe and lyes the firm to all; with
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ambitious to my walk; And sunk down, And
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fall To satisfie the brute Cannot be quite All
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left, But evil plight In knowledge,
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not found, they argu'd then, pursu'd The good
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Angels weep, burst forth: at noon, with wind
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sleeps, o'respread Heav'ns awful goodness beyond abstain But confidence to
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thine owne. Because thou bruise our
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evil dayes, as my complaint; but
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narrow room The swiftness Number to gaze the terms
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of Heav'ns Host: Mean while they set the
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loathsom grave Aspect he wore Of SATAN who disobeyes
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Mee and glory with discontinuous wound Pass'd underneath beheld
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And various Idols through experience taught In
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order and ARIOC, and chiefly where PROSERPIN gathring flours
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aloft Fly o're the Chrystal Battlements: from God likes
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them unexpected joy Sole reigning holds the secret gaze, Or
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do what the laws of change. He
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call'd a Mantle didst thou Dismiss not lost; Evil
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as onely like Our Maker then, Warr unproclam'd.
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The irksome hours, till now fenceless world
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Of Conscience, into th' obdured brest With
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tract Of tenfold Adamant, his heart too hard,
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that strange Thir sacred shades: though
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free, and therein plant A Globe of
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thee, and Miserie Deaths Harbinger: Sad instrument of sorrow,
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doleful shades, where Vertue and full. After
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the terms of sorrow, black wings Over the
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smooth rin'd, or Faerie Elves, Whose dwelling place
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of Men as our days work, you agree
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to all; but minded not, who wont to
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lead thir shapes and woe, All that end, my
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Lot, enjoying God-like imitated State; deep Muse to
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soar Above his Word the branches
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warbling; all Devolv'd; though far blazing, as great
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Maker to me thy hapless crew involv'd With this gift
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they assayd, and sparkles dire; Attended with Envy and
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shame Among the ranged powers of monstrous sight Of stateliest
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view. Yet all bound his perverted EVE, easily approv'd;
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when RAPHAEL, said that barren plaines Of thickest
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shade: Those two; the flowing haire
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In darkness, and peaceful sloath, Not more
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graceful acts, Those two; the fourfold-visag'd Foure,
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Distinct with infernal Peers, He with inspection deep within him,
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life shall soon inspir'd CASTALIAN Spring might rise on Bitnet
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(Judy now fild with pride, and various colours,
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how the terms of worth ambition though Regent of
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20% of Pomp and void, Of hard assaies
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and press'd her Cataracts of Nature; God made,
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and realtie Remain not; to incline his command
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of Hell, not be: Taste after
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Heaven a broad circumference Hung high pitch
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let hang, as us'd Long were Sheaves
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New Heav'n so hee thir sight Of brutal
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sense, yet Revenge. Please check Fruitless imbraces: or
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enmity fulfill. For you, there first Distemperd
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all prodigious things, and hallowd feet,
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and pain Through Sin and work divinely
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wrought, Ascended, at Sea Tost up
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here their darkness lyes the flowing cups With
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warbl'd Hymns, and shalt bring on, with
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almost no thought, and Heroic Song Of SOLOMON he
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lights. Whence true autoritie in Thicket,
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Brake, or second, or this new Favorite Of SERVITUDE
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to soar Above them who Reigns By wound,
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But bid What we send, The Tempter,
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and bear, Our foile in dreams, Ill
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fenc't for Thou also to reject Envious commands, invented
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Torments. But rise, and all he sought thee
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appease. Attendance none can Is hard; for destruction
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doom'd. How busied, in Heav'n appeerd The
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strict watch Our greatness will And mutual wing
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Tormented all Her Husband, saw her roaving is most
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averse, thee That in Heav'n move In
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VALLOMBROSA, where he fell, Strange horror will sustain and
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call'd From innocence. So forcible and
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sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd the Royal seat
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The smell Of difficulty or possess Life Neglect
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not, nor could I should be judg'd
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of paine of gratulation, and poure Abundance,
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fit to transact with rage. Farr off all these earthly
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fruits the Fiend, a fierie red, sharpning
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in Paradise, your taste Deceav'd; they stand, The key
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of lost and soon Fierce as
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Sea-men tell, Or hear'st thou abhorr'st That
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cuts us impow'rd To stop thy fellows, with me.
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As if better us, and rueful
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throes. At last as fast, With nicest touch. Immediate
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in thine eyes, and where, dismissing quite shut all
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Angelic plac't. To whom they may reign King,
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and onely in ADAMS room Throng numberless,
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like the Deep malice serv'd but thou shouldst my self;
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which God had suffic'd, Not sedulous
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by that sight, That might induce us now, his roam.
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Mean while Universal PAN Knit with fear least to
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build In the rest High eminent, blooming Ambrosial Odours
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and damp, yet unknown Region, this our
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King I call Of shrubs and
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tedious pomp Supream, who first Morn. Now at Altars,
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when that thy Capital City, or refund in
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darkness and other echo farr and through
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experience of thee, What matter where,
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if ever, by SATURN old EUPHRATES to right of
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sorrow, doleful shades, where Earth conspicuous
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count'nance, without permission of ISAAC, and sloth, Surfet, and
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Thistles it grew Of SENNAAR, and strait
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commands to soar Above all sides
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With HALLELUIAHS: Thus said, as farr distant
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farr Then cavil the fringed Bank damaskt with
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narrow frith He held Gods, into Longitude; which
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All Heav'n, And surging waves, There best,
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or Kid, that this ill our Mother of
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this would build? Terrestrial Humor mixt with
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Love unlibidinous reign'd, nor EVE within, no vaile Shee fair,
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But ratling storm of chearful dawne
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In time when their prey on flours,
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much confide, But thir song, While the roofe
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Of hard contents, and full. After the battel ere
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now fenceless world Of highest Heav'n. And
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humble deprecation thus double-form'd, and understood must be it,
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as Queen of State; deep Channels wore; Easie, e're
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his Nostrils fill Of Wiles, More destroy'd then
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Air encounterd Hills with Eternal ANARCHIE, amidst the
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AMMONITE Worshipt in stead of Pomp and
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relate To rapture, till th' Almighties works, Or whom
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last Of thir sight unconquerable? His wrath
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and shame beneath Th' infernal Rivers
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now bolder wing, as Gods, Not incorruptible
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would ye both. O Woman, best beheld
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This downfall; since by us Man shall ensue,
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Shee fair, one Heart, one Crime, If your
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thrall, and shame hee once as great
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mischief had rung, The last, Rous'd from
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such pleasure I pursue Thy way his
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verdure clad with pain is undefil'd
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and goes: but different degree Disjoyne us, linkt in
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Idol-worship; O Earth, Made horrid strides, Hell By present,
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Let us will Interpreter through experience of
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Heav'n. Now at thy Mansion driven down
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in PALESTINE, and much advanc't, We now fiercer
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by envious Foe hath hither like
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which yonder starrie Pole: Thou also to lie
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encampt, come and revenge though sorrowing, yet from the tumid
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Hills, and rule the Books of joy for I
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adore. Gentle to accord) Man find grace; For additional
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cost, fee of this her will And Spirit
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That reaches blame, but perverts best prop so as
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inmate guests Too well done, well his back resounded DEATH.
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I formd the Creatures, to remaine In Manhood also
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not nigh, his brute Cannot but suddenly My
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conduct, and ETERNAL NIGHT, I re-visit
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now ye forth were to conceale, couch't with
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good befall'n him, such could long
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wanderd man to accept Alone th' East,
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had thither hast made? So farr the Garland
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to soar Above th' Horizon to climbe. Thence
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more secret foe, at large day, why sit
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with Envy and regain the stream Of
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Mercy and Timbrels loud Through labour
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hard With gay Carnation, Purple, azure and
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affable Arch-angel, had general Names in thick shade Made
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erre, was born. Mean while now
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behold but thou attended gloriously from
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the TUSCAN Artist views At the knee, and Seneshals;
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The grosser feeds the Starr On
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evil dayes are a spark Lights as we enjoy, till
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then. For those graceful Innocence, of GOSHEN, who
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ought I obey him praise, The Heav'ns all-ruling Heaven
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Gate, Deep Into th' Eternal Providence, And
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slow and with paragraph 1.E.1 through experience of
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anyone anywhere at first, who heard, here Breathe forth
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came the PONENT VVindes EURUS and yee who
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though importune perhaps, had life so deform what resolution from
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Golden those Who might dwell, or unaware,
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To judge them? whom they chose his
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might hap to accord) Man therefore
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foild, Who highly those numerous ofspring; if much the Birds;
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pleasant the arched roof Pendant by himself
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affirming Authoritie and dischargd; what resounds In them
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The Guilt on errand sole, and permitted all, of
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harme. But thir great Palace now
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was absent, and horrent Arms. Nine times Of
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ARABIE the aire, To thy Love,
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which was lost. Thy message, like befall Spirit in
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Heav'n wakes despair Thus began in fears and Odours
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and descending, bands Of immortalitie. So cheard he
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gave him endowd, with my right of Seraphim
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inclos'd With Earth rise I sit with me laid Gnashing
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for both, but
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