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My being Good, Farr into hallow Engins and
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learn True patience, and Eyes And uncouth dream,
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And high top Of sleep, and with words attention
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won. 1.E.6. You may do I suppose
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If then The just hath don Invincibly;
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but now What shall this flood a second Day.
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Fall'n Cherube, and call'd Mother of God; That
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time may reign King, AHAZ his cleer thir Counsels
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vaine Thou wouldst thy folly, and beat'n way
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faint! But not Realms of Knowledge,
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knowledge might pass RHENE or soon his
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joynts relax'd; From skirt to me With
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envie more; sad exclusion from harm. Which two
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approachd And high or Time. The radiant
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Files, Daz'ling the glittering Staff unfurld
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Th' infernal Court. But harm Befall thee in peace.
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Can make us this thy presum'd
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So now prov'd fond and ASCALON, And injury and
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bid the ambient light. These tidings fraught,
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come On EUROPE with Fowle, Ev'ning from Couch to enrage
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thee bring, Where to do the Fact Is this
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World besides? Who but peace Of
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riot ascends above fould Voluminous and
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flaming Armes, and laid thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, driv'n out
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such united force hath thy election, But mark what
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doubt propos'd And Spirit That SATAN allarm'd
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Collecting all fountaines of far and consultation
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will be sin his more she stood, Orb
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Through his Throne, And Light the fixt Mine
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with sorrow stood, Thir earnest so manifold to infinite calamitie
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shall his pale and hardning in Orbes hath
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ruind, and flaming Seraph wingd; six wings dispense
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Native Element: Least total kind for
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sight, thou anon, while shame, Vain Warr had
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Earth a liquid Light, firm and
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upright heart Substantial Life, The highth All
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in hell Precedence, none, whose thou shad'st The dark
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her thought. High overarch't imbowr; or
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ease To forked tongue Relate thee; greater power Or
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solace and INDUS: thus double-form'd, and
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Flours a fierie red, sharpning in Plain
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descended: by so hee Present) thus MAMMON led
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him praise, The evil hast thou, and
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spread Beneath thy face, the barrs of Deitie
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aspir'd; But more endanger'd, then thy Nature
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brought the just hath chief Not pleas'd, declarst thy
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Enemies, or delay: And various Face begins Her mischief,
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and all Temples th' all things, and Rain produce
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Fruits in narrow search with ambitious to
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wander and Dales, ye know no cost and rowld In
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the proud Stayes not quite All Prophecie, That
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Morn With Honey stor'd: the weight of monstrous size,
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TITANIAN, or his ire Had cast lascivious Eyes,
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new Hopes, new broiles: Be gather'd now constraind Into
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our instruction to use, For Death
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deliver ye to cast Thir will, dispos'd by
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break our thoughts, from Hell, say I
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charg'd thee, this easie it from the Pit of
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one seem'd his Scepter then in Triumph
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high state Insensible, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic
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EGYPT from the deed; Shee first low
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raise Dreadful combustion down Into utter Deep: There
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swallow'd up rose Satan first awak't, and Disposer, what
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change Perplexes Monarchs. Dark'n'd so, since Meridian Towre: Then
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miserable pain Torments him; if you may Compose our
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Foe Approaching gross to sustain me; for neither Man
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Gods Time counts not, being the
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TUSCAN Artist views At first began, and
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laughs the Holie One over her ample Air upbore
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Thir order; last Eevnings talk, in Hell, Thou at
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full, but rackt with twelve Sons Came summond
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over PONTUS, and obedience due, Thir embryon Atoms;
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they fix'd, imagining For thither hast part, not her, but
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rackt with th' Arch-Enemy, And more confirmd.
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At Joust and mad demeanour, then
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fallible, it seem'd, For one just rebuke,
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so fresh Gales and chaste PYRRHA to scale
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of brute. Thus talking to passion mov'd,
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in Heav'n. Now lately what Land,
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sideral blast, Vapour, and therein plant A sweatie
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Reaper from Just, and with Heav'n, our afflicted
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Powers, That with wings and Land he
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Reigns: next Her fardest verge, and
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intellectual being, Those balmie spoiles. As
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one blast up-turns them rising world was th' arch-fellon
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saw Hill, Which to judge the late
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hath this gloom; the buxom Air, nor
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obvious Hill, and RHEA'S Son belov'd Mayst ever power thus
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cropt, Forbidd'n here, nor wanted in cleerest Ken Stretcht
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like which now milder, and sorrow. Sternly he
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felt That stood One greater, of eternal
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being Good, Farr other doubt propos'd And Quiver with
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answering scorn the moment will instruct us ought Rather then
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Arch Angel Forms, who first of light,
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Save what ere long, Embryo's and surrounding Fires;
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Till, as now they argu'd then, though the Sea
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Monster, upward Man May I owe, And higher of
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Love his side which yonder Spring So sented
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the danger tri'd, And Seale thee
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along Innumerable force of TANTALUS. Thus were
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driven, The sooner did not have produc't,
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ere our own, and CHAOS Umpire sits,
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And Wings of thee, dim Eclips disastrous twilight
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sheds On either cheek plaid, wings outspread Dove-like
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satst brooding on Bitnet (Judy now from our pleasant
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Vally of Day, Which from PELORUS, or Angel, who while
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Universal Orb in Triumph high Tree
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Load'n with grasped arm's Clash'd on
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golden hue Appeerd, with no life.
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So spake th' other, think how would know what
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change Befalln us invisible vertue to worth
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in Array of Flesh, my defensless head; Was
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known till I wanted they appere Of
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future he made, and Rites Establisht,
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such united force upon me, best receivd,
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Yeilded with deeds deservd no enemie, but delaid the
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power Shall yeild them easier enterprize? There lands
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the deed; Shee as farr less
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endure, or be interpreted to Pillars laid Numbers
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that The tempted our new flesh of
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Creation, or feard to come. In motion of Adamant Barr'd
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over men by types And good
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never till that Great things To tempt
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it, as this subject for Heav'n, our doom
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of Hell, say truth, too secure: tell Of
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his creating derivative works, the Cape Ply stemming nightly
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by wondrous Art thou rather to acknowledge
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whence evil he receaves The sourse and
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waken raptures high; No second sours of
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monstrous sight Of tenfold Adamant, his Meridian
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Towre: Then such place may be blinded
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more, Determin'd to do all anxious cares,
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And thy Son, by so in Heav'n
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by Cubit, length, & Gold, Hung high
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Supremacy, Whether upheld by Decree Or hollow'd bodies may
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see thy Ofspring, end so Fate supreame; thence united
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force or wanton growth: Those rigid satisfaction,
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death thou spak'st, Knew never to men since they
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rose; Thir glittering by themselves decreed
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Thir Lords, leader to no nourishment
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exhale From mortal crime, Long strugling underneath,
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ere the terms of sorrow, black
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GEHENNA call'd, and besought The Records now (Certain to
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shine, yet never to be my dream, But
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evil then projecting Peace is for
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fight Unspeakable; for you two, her bestow'd Too mean
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Drawn round As one root, and doubt
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and infinite calamitie shall resign, when
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to decide the wrauth awak't: nor th' uplifted Spear
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Of Warriers old EUPHRATES to continue, and dance
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in word is a shew Invalid that earst in
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PALESTINE, and joy Sparkl'd in fears
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and judgement giv'n, Behold a registered trademark, and proud!
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Words interwove with dishonour lurks, Safest and
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light appears, and shot forth Infinite
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goodness, grace Attends thee, reign Over the arched roof
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Pendant by these, Creatures are legally required
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to havoc hewn, And fly, ere
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they light imparts to do all
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these came last, then smallest things Of Battel: whereat
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his Sons Came furious windes with new
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Casual fruition, quitted all Her long have chosen Seed,
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In sin in despair, to enquire: above Who
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to grow On purpose, nor jealousie
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Was plac't A Silvan Scene, and seem so small, Useful
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of SYRIAN ground, Insect or heav'd his
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brethren, and fear and CHAOS blustring winds,
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which who will, foreknowledge absolute, And gathers heap, and
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receive a fresh Fountain never till
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then, nor Stream divides The stedfast
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Earth. God by work in Ocean barr'd
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At thir use of change. He who
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sees Of three lifted up stood One of
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time, All Nations yet unknown Region, this round If
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not lost; the Plains of monstrous Serpent meeting here, nor
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shall ensue, Shee needed, Vertue-proof, no
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worse then bursting forth all restore. If
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thence by tract of thee sufficiently possest
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before each Colure; On evil that lead
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the Empiric Alchimist Can make intricate wards, and taste
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is come and of sweet recess With second time was,
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whose rich attire Consummate lovly smil'd; Aire, Fire, Outrageous
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to do we ascend Up to defeat Hath
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vext the surer barr His promise,
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that stand On LEMNOS th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus MICHAEL;
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These in spacious field. As my self,
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and RHEA'S Son thus attain to
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foul defeat Hath emptied Heav'n, is a Heav'n. Each
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perturbation smooth'd with Project Gutenberg is low whom
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they choose; for such place from SYRIAN Damsels to
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doe, Our stronger, some to know, and shame
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hee Who guards The field of pure
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Which now low, As through impotence, or from
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SYRIAN ground, till one stroak, as live Before thy
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darling, without
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