Robo poem for 2024-02-26
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There swallow'd up so dear, To found as in
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heav'n: For since I repent and revenge though
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both with dreadful gloom, Which to submit
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or Foreland, where silence thus began. Is not reverence
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in Heav'n possest before the gloom For since
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they as beseems Thy self aright. ***** This Flourie
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Plat, the Arch-fiend reply'd. O too easie it
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brought: and posture have I betake me, though
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Thron'd above Who of fraud; and all a crowd
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Swarm'd and with hideous change. He ended; when to
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tyrannize, Marching from PELORUS, or taste Deceav'd;
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they enthrall to reach The tempted our heads.
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No rest: through experience of Pomp and
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fearless, nor Angel stand, a foe with
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Starr's Numerous, and passion not, who
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disobeyes Mee though she wills to dwell at
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Sea and with obdurate pride and
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thrice to soar Above th' anointed King;
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thee free, not feard To many dayes
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portends, then harmonious sound Of his will be sure,
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and Wife, where your knowledge hurt him, for then mistrust,
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but in it seemd, wherein shall found desolate; for blissful
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Bower; it less be good, why Obtruded on Bitnet
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(Judy now exhal'd, and Creeping things, and
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effect of Deluge, fed With Flaming Cherubim,
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and Cov'nant new. Whereat hee who full of short
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sigh of Creatures, dignifi'd so heav'nly, for on Bitnet
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(Judy now who at all; needs remove The Clouds
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exhal'd From each the Bullion dross: A
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Son, I for pace, not true delight? Which his
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Robe Uncover'd more. But to dawne Obtains
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the buxom Air, Sagacious of Mercie
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and mossie seats had stole Those Leaves that might best
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witness Heaven, or unkindly mixt, Dissolvd on errand
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sole, and EDENS happie hours in VALDARNO, to
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Earth beneath, Down right The sensible of
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hundreds and smoak: Such hast made? So threatn'd hee, as
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fast, With him, if there to mature
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Of lowest bottom all a devillish Engine back recoiles
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Upon his wakeful Foe, Who might the most
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conspicuous, when contrary to devour, immures us
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woe and smoak: Such grace With borders long Had
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unbenighted shon, Majestick though gay enameld
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colours mixt: On Man finally be
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lost. Then feed Air, Earth all-bearing
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Mother of man. In Heav'n, and
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peaceful sloath, Not mee. They sat
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mute, Pondering the Desert and wonderful
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Of God, Found worthiest to them, his Lip Not
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keeping the terms of SINAEAN Kings, Or
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if our faults, and learne His barren plaines Of
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washing them enemies: From innocence. So judge it pursues
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Things above Should intermitted vengeance wing'd with ASPHALTIC
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slime; broad circumference Hung ore the
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Beginning how chang'd at each hand So strange to
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forget. But grateful Twilight gray Dawn, and fearless, nor
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EVE Got them stood behind, Whose easier
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to havoc hewn, And after made both crime
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hath spi'd In INDIA East his only this World.
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Say, Muse, that Tree Down sunk a signal
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blow them ordain His glory excites, Or violence, no,
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let us wide, Likest to burn His
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captive multitude: For state, and full. After thir
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prepar'd ill able to Almightie Arme, Uplifted spurns
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the earth a veile the Oracle of sorrow, black
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mist Of Mans First thy aid to all; but
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I conjecture on it brought: and as that most
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offend Our voluntarie move In those half-rounding guards The
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Femal Bee Sits Arbitress, and help sustaind?
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Let us ever rest to woe, With more swift
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pursuers from under a long ridge the
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Bullion dross: A Heaven and ILIUM, on Bitnet
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(Judy now Shot paralel to prepare) your behoof, if
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on In sight The way Tore through
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experience of Foe hung Like things now hid,
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now Shot forth came down to acquaint
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With gay Carnation, Purple, azure and MESSIAH,
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and wild, under pendant world, and wine. Witness the
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green Stood on dry Land From off this high
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Came furious King, All usurpation thence be
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withheld Thy looks, words, & wing'd
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with wingd speed A dismal hiss Of Mankind they
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durst dislike his Throne, upheld by
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things Liken on yonder Sea, Aire, Thy mate,
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who taste; But well seem'd, For
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God Supream, And ADAM repli'd. That ever that rape begot
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These changes oft forsook Their living Wheels, so
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large and stedfast Empyrean rung, Had been
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found in narrow space of anyone anywhere at all;
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needs remove him thou Revisit'st not the Regions:
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lowly down to Light; Our power sufficient to soar
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Above them low subjection; understand the green bank, to
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augment. The hollow Deep Stretcht into hallow Engins belcht,
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whose rich inlay Broiderd the faint Satanic Host
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Of hazard in whose he decreed Thir Makers Image
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of monstrous Serpent sly Insinuating, wove with
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these eyes, and incorporate both, the more, What pleasing
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was the night-warbling Bird, that proud Crest Sat
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Sable-vested Night, Now walking in PALESTINE, and
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dire form had prepar'd For one call'd so
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wak'd her, as in DAN, Lik'ning his
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volant touch Th' associates and bear, Our knowledge, planted
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here passion in both on main to Wing,
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and vain, though SPRING and deform: on
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Of God till peace And various forms, That Bodies first
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adornd With HALLELUIAHS: Thus BELIAL with count'nance cast Ominous
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conjecture on such united force urg'd Main reason for
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LAVINIA disespous'd, Or that, which if
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Land From Wing to augment Thir pamperd boughes,
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and flowers Flie to promote me, call'd aloud.
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Whence rushing sound his Omnipresence fills All on errand
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sole, and Saviour sent, Or if she
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gaz'd, which God dispos'd, the deed; Shee
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needed, Vertue-proof, no middle pair Girt with ambitious
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aim Against the field and to die a constant thoughts
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revolv'd, his Angels met his own? ingrate, he drew
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not find himself lamented loud Among
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the good, Our greatness will shew Elaborate, of Warr, what
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might concern him, punisht in despair,
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to scorne The Hell trembl'd at highth
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Of unoriginal NIGHT and Warr? Warr hath
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impaird, which command the rules is left, Now
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possess, As when most shall in
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lieu of Heaven, or more dang'rous to naught,
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Or satiate fury yield it thus? who beheld Thir rising
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on dry Land He spreads for flight, Mangl'd
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with solemne purpose to ride in VALDARNO, to
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obstruct his solitary flight; som tumultuous cloud Instinct
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with meats & formd the terms of monstrous shapes old
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and therein Each in carnal pleasure, though
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far nobler shape it devours not, Herb, before
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in Heav'n Rise on golden Hinges
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turning, as vain The Project Gutenberg License included with
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delight; how dear, To mortal Sin and deep,
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& Whom to EVE, exprest Ineffably into fraud Led on
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by whose Bark by various plaint, Thence to quit
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of chearful waies of operation brings
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with dew, nor obeid: Your change Befalln
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us down Warring in quaternion run Potable Gold, when
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BELLONA storms, With LAPLAND Witches, while thus cri'd.
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Haste hither thrust me down; there first Distemperd
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all Air those things lost us wide, enclos'd,
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Pattern of Victorie, eternal Paradise He reckd not,
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Wherein past, as great charge anything for
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of Death; from God declares his solitary
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flight; som new strength entire, Invulnerable, impenitrably arm'd: Such
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fatal guile With thousand Banners rise Victorious, and
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taste; But follow the ample Square from
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SYRIAN ground, or toy Of happiness: yet
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DICTAEAN JOVE Sheer o're the rest what Hellish
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hate, And courage never hold what mean
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Drawn round this dire event, when sleep Bred onely shall
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never slept, nor much in narrow search
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of human pair That Golden Censers hid my might,
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All seemd both live, and to reform Yon
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flourie herb I send Against the bough
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of life. So spake th' Almighty, since wilde, That
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witness'd huge Rose like himself Impossible is
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to ABRAHAM, Son foreseeing spake. Why
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should prevail and therein Each at Sea
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Tost up (nor hath ruind, for such united
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force On which their Creator, and taile,
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Scorpion and let dry Land: nigh
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overwhelm'd, Confessing soon, yet staid not to Warr
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wearied wings, Reigns And starrie flock, allur'd The Causey to
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spend all befell: they move His violence
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thou then could tell, Or dreams he views
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At Heav'ns Host: Mean while over her
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in doubt and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching,
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equal'd the terms will deigne To wreck all kindes,
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himself affirming Authoritie and shame, thou thy dwelling
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haply mention may contain Within Hell heard new
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Names, And practis'd distances to heare Of
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battel when BELLONA storms, With Honey stor'd:
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the Bullion dross: A Dungeon horrible, on they
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satiate, and all Farr be loath to diminish, and
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Land, and ample Shield Such as this latter, as
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henceforth most afflicts me, from the welkin burns. Others
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on Arch-Angel rowl'd; The weight of vengeance on mans
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behalf Patron or wilt find means of
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high Throne, Where honour claim'd AZAZEL as us'd
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or highest Woods the Deep Of yesterday, so
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matcht they led her numberd such wherein were driven, The
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last, and lyes Bordering on Bitnet (Judy now becom
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Accurst of sweets; for Deities: Then who
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best With mortal change of Mankind,
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whose excellence he heares, And reck'n'st
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thou believe?) should I So eagerly the fixt
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in VALDARNO, to judge them? whom follow? thou
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