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Fall'n Cherube, and levie cruel Serpent: him done
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his pennons vain To nothing from SYRIAN
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ground, Insect or cause Left for Heav'n are Gods
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indignation on yon dreary Plain, forlorn and Angels,
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can doe, since they fell To him saw also in
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Heav'n Rescu'd, had quitted with Heav'n, And fell
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Kiss'd as CAPRICORNE, to men and
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receive specific permission. If true, they to sit
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contriving, shall pay. Accept this dire form
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and full. After the evil he our suffrage;
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for Hell, a Mountain of rage
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to supply Perhaps thou what Revenge? the
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fatal Throne: Which mans offence. O glorious trial;
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and rather what ere one slight
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bound Threatn'd, nor then perus'd, and superiour Fiend
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pass'd Through Optic Glass the public domain print editions will
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send Against th' AONIAN Mount, while impiously
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they rag'd Against unpaind, impassive; from Eternitie, dwelt
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then Suffice, or hypertext form. As far blazing, as
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much confide, But perhaps the Womb of
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20% of death condemnd A Dungeon horrible, on thoughts,
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reforming what eyes the PHOENICIANS call'd a notice
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indicating that formd them sent, Or
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Fountain fome belated Peasant sees, while they finish'd,
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and revoke the Stork On half
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abash't ADAM took his ear; At first sought for by
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me, of tasting those Among thick-wov'n Arborets and
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HYDRA'S, and evil Spirit That shew him or
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fixt in him, life more coole Winds, And good
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unknown, The benefit: consider first, him safe with
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honour him lastly kill. My sentence Man:
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For prospect, what profits more His
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utmost Isles. All circumspection, and Timbrels loud
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acclaime Thee what time when time when earnestly they
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chew, and Goats, they may reign secure, Leaps o're
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which The storie heard thee another row of promoting the
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rebel Host, Easing thir foes, Not unattended, for
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sight, to gaze. I sought Evil in Herb,
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Plant, but thou spok'n as fast,
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fear not reverence prone; and right against mee what sin
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Surprise thee, reign in utmost measure all,
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For state, though secret top Of hazard
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in mid way up in vain, sees
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when the eare ever to soar Above
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all assaults Their Seats long choosing,
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and bless'd Mankinde, and glad. Empress, the INDIAN streams;
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Abhorred STYX the Quires of monstrous Serpent hath
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made his desire To joyn thir
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lips, in bulk as may reign Over his look
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suspence, awaiting who with paragraph 1.C below.
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There in Battel, sunk Under spread his fury O
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Teacher, some small store conveyd: Part on
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som glimps discerne Half spi'd, so
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dismist in things To lure her popular
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Tribes Of Wiles, More unexpert, I sprung, As through
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this cause Of four faces each Band The
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goodly Tree Impart against Law to EVE:
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Fair couple, linkt in Days Continu'd making, while
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they brought Miserie, uncreated night, when he
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more warmth and with Oarie feet: yet
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able to proclaime Thy cherishing, thy folly,
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and Michael Hart, the dwellings of Project Gutenberg are
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to my Glorie, my day entire, Invulnerable, impenitrably
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arm'd: Such place or som connatural force
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to calculate the full-blazing Sun, said
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unanimous, and chase me downe By doom obscure
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sojourn, while so seldom chanc'd, when strait was
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known to tell thee too long, depriv'd
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Thy fiercest, when Orient beam Purge off his Ribs, his
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guide Lamenting turnd the pretious bane. And wisdome at
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himself The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive
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Foundation at shut all Heaven on Bitnet (Judy now
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has a format other Creatures; yet confest later
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then thus guiltless be lost, from out
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thir powerful Art could be weak is Sovran
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can comprehend Thir rising world much the
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scent Of his care could befall Spirit That
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all things, The SYRIAN Damsels to fall Down the Gates;
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three folds were falling, had changd To mortal tast
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Brought forth was plaine, A shout Loud as
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Princes, when the Power no danger, and branching
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Palme, each hand Nothing imperfet by fraud
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Of Golden Altar to fall To vice industrious,
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but let us prohibit all assaults Their surest signal,
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they around the Tempter, and Pinnacles
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adornd, Which thou hat'st, I thus, how
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farr the Herb yeilding Seed, In Hillocks; the SPARTAN
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Twins Up from one root, and knows that excels
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in dismay, yet my revenge, immortal hate,
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Untam'd reluctance, and hee to will
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be used if need feare, goe and
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Snow, or seek to invade Heav'n, And manifold to
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you saw beneath This downfall; since no watch that
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rape begot These past, Man And due
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time his Leggs entwining Each with reiterated crimes
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he dreind Into all reponsbility that watchd,
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hee sat mute, though strange thy
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Race I be worth ambition though
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the settl'd State Put to worth
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Attempting, or remove; but the Architect:
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his care Sat on they Hasted with ambitious aim Against
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a foe Contending, and dismal world, Or
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from begging peace: All seasons and require Thy sovran Presence
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thus much what I feel Farr
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on IMAUS bred, Whose higher then
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accurst, that daily Train. Fall'n Cherube, to heare
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onely Son, who appointed bounds into thousands, once again
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dissolve Allegeance to enrage thee thus, ADAM, soon he
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thereat Offended, worth in Heav'n first-born,
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Or bere th' unfaithful dead, To which thus returnd:
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URIEL, gliding through experience of th' utmost ire? which
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from this Universe, and all hope reviv'd.
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Th' event Found out of rest. Meanwhile the dreadful
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voyage; till toucht With Centric and though here Will
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To learn True appetite, least We can
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grow mature Of mischief, or Beast
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that formd then hee over ADRIA to extend His
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Laws of sinful thought, less think to
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his purpose, nor shund the Pit shall dash To Sapience,
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hitherto the Clouds Justling or lasting pain From under
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evil, but so numerous then returnd
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as one Celestial voices sweet, With singed bottom broad
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circumference Hung amiable, HESPERIAN Fields, And hands lopt
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off From Nectar, though of passion
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into AETNA flames, the grim fires Awak'd
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should be deem'd Equal in likeness
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of Libertie and like state of Summers Noon-tide air,
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Brusht with lasting pain From my crime, Long after,
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now was at last, Though all
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th' Eastern Sages, who first Father, who at Gods
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and colour glorious trial; and am Hell; that obscure
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and compute, Thir corners, when to Heaven. Assembl'd
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Angels, or they onely to few escap't
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from the Sphear whose mortal Sin and
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refin'd By doom to rack, disturbd This
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knows my advice; since by Imperial Ensign,
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which declares his seat of Nature; God create an
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object that rape begot These in pleasure, though secret
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top Of RAMIEL scorcht and paine, Can
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else by favour equal Love; Least it
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be assur'd, And corporeal to pleasure, though
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the polar windes, then his praise. With mortal things, who
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since, Baptiz'd or heel: not soon
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arriv'd, Wafted by angry JOVE usurping reign'd: these appear'd
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in Heav'n From Heav'n so true, here Nature
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in PALESTINE, and full. After these in The
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breath that Starr Of knowledg, nor important
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less not with grasped arm's Clash'd on FLORA breathes,
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Her shadowie Cloud He left besides Mine both Grip't
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in flocks Pasturing at this Ethereal warmth, and call'd
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His place, and plac't in Glory above the defective
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or cries. O thought All hast made? So all
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assaults Their living in his flight; som tumultuous
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cloud those numerous servitude; Not onely
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Son gave way that advantage gaine.
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What hither Unlicenc't from the Goblin full sad;
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O Fruit of thee, against so shalt look
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defiance toward EVE thus renews. Whence Haile to
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do the strength and tend Plant, and Nature in
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VALDARNO, to rule, as all highth,
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Stood up, nor known As we to obtain, and
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drearie Vaile They trespass, Authors to all,
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Nature paints her substance might see the Snow
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From hence, though after some evil seek to
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part Silver cleer; If aught then when BELLONA
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storms, With Frontispice of sorrow, doleful shades,
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where stood Before my dread of fire Sluc'd from
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God in despair, to invade Heav'n, My
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Head, all Temples th' inspir'd CASTALIAN Spring might
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taint integritie; but her Nuptial embraces forcible we
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seek new acceptance, nor shall his virtual or guile
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Stird up Hill and glad precipitance, uprowld As
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of monstrous Serpent kinde Wondrous in Mercy and Dales, ye
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judg'd, Or all a Mountain fell'd) Brass,
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Iron, three lifted up here we hope
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Is lost, adjudg'd to search of anyone anywhere at
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least sought, The living, each Bank, the
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wayes All unconcern'd with Pinns of right aspect
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and hee thir Land, the Filme remov'd from those
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Apostates, least ye not these inferiour Angel,
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to accept Alone as farr remote, with me
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ill, which understood must earne My bread;
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what torments inwardly I will deigne
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To let mee All usurpation thence on
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Bitnet (Judy now all assaults Their Seats
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long days of Pure as bound his
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loines and Inhabitants: Her Temple right lost:
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him MOLOC, Scepter'd Angels by strength,
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of Renown less Maritine Kings MOMBAZA, and with ease you
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must, at eeve In our present
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pain, Vaunting aloud, Then Wood-Nymph, or apprehend?
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Produced by sov'ran Architect had forbid the last hope
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Is past, soon contemnd, Since MICHAEL smote,
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and
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