Robo poem for 2020-10-03
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Silence, and suttle Magic many Myriads though
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then stood Her gather'd now Saint
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PETER at our afflicted Powers, If he calld The utmost
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Orbe Of easie yoke Of EVE, For
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heav'nly Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, Consult how Hee
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in PALESTINE, and being forgets, Forgets both
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for obtaining a whip of anyone in thine
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owne. Because thou us who fill I labour
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calls us oft be peace, Said hee, but henceforth
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most excell, In Paradise, fast had new
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created like which yonder blazing Cressets fed
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With God, and mad demeanour, then
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bursting forth her rural sound; If
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once past, Two dayes, As after us remote From
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your thrall, and with words made thee not,
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though thereby to shew no satietie. All
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are wont thir awe from one small partition,
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and deform: on dry Land: nigh founderd on Bitnet
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(Judy now his Brothers Offering found they
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finish'd, and flaming Warriours, Arme He views The Heav'nly
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love & might rise I pursue Vain wisdom
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didst inspire That durst defie th' occasion
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pass commodiously this text should be worse abhorr'd. SATAN
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had descri'd, To entertain The Monster moving Fires As Flesh
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to enure Our task and goes: but turns
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Wisdom without Feminine, Her Temple right
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we break our plots and so pleasant, his
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place of stain would intermix Grateful digressions, and place foretold
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Should be, who first wraught the Plaine, Both Harp
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Had circl'd his Angel unpursu'd Through labour still longer
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to be weak is his, or their
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fears. Then feed Air, and call'd Satan, with vain
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Covering if lawful to acknowledge whence warne him MOLOC,
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Scepter'd Angels born, with deep Consider'd every Soule Are
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ever to descrie Communicating Male he call'd Mother
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of Night, Fierce as that strife
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of vernal bloom, but that right
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into my nether Empire, and make us invisible to
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suffer and Thrones, but brings A race of Worshippers Holy
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Rest; Heav'n perhaps, Not yet confest
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later then The Monarch, and rising sweet,
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Nor the gorgeous wings, and Mattin, when
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BELLONA storms, With shuddring horror shot Darts
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his ire, Or fansied so, for who enjoy
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thee, Wondrous in foresight much more, is reason, and
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receaves, As great Sire among the Wheels
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her Bearth. If counsels different, or ridge
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the Portress of Evening Cloud, Amidst the Potent
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Victor in Heav'n so much less think Submission? Warr
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Irreconcileable, to binde Volatil HERMES, and Stone,
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Whereof hee Who having spilt much thir
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pietie feign'd Or high repute Which gives Heroic deem'd,
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I should they sat, by Hell
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to descry new Counsels, and stay: forlorn and
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Pure, and worth thy transgression due, Thir wandring
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course he thereat Offended, worth not for
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speed On all on the days work
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Divine Imbu'd, bring forth among them in one
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rising, saw Due search I seem At
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least of upstart Creatures, universal shout Loud as mee.
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They sat devising Death Inhumanly to pine Immovable, infixt,
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and Plaine, whereon to part in Heav'n that thou where
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your written Records now soild and Mirtle, and with
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narrow vent appli'd To deathless pain?
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where peace confound. Together both Bodie and obstacle
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found Squat like themselves defac't While time To offend,
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discount'nanc't both, from the spirited with me once,
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now lament his Temple, on by restraint;
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what we need feare, goe Before all
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Farr otherwise th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus
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consulting, thus much eas'd, Erwhile perplext All
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these eyes, all Temples th' unwarie brest With
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God, half in flocks Pasturing at
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eeve In strictest watch; and with high
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above Light, yet sinless. Of smallest Magnitude
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close The fellows of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or
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heav'd his wish, and with pomp Supream, And Life-blood
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streaming to submit or arm the God
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will trouble brought, wher found, How shall seldom chanc'd,
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when in body, and drearie Vaile They pass'd,
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and ambrosial frutage bear, Our walks To veile the
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dark Flew divers, wandring thoughts, and
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unrighteous deeds, Thy frailtie and Clouds
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With dread of anyone anywhere at noon,
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with wings a foe: and doubt distract His inmost
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counsels from darkness visible Serv'd only
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dreaded through hostile Arms not fear'd; should thus
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bespake her thoughts and smoak: Such
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disproportions, with our parting and don
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by chance but thou thy example, but have my side,
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the heart rebounds. Thus they walk'd: The Mother of
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God; I else Superiour and lyes the op'ning to
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find. Before thir King besmear'd with most or
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Infidel Jousted in at command, and with hand alone
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is choice) Useless and nobler Bodies first his
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Peers: attention due. To such delay To vice industrious,
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but retir'd, Victor and bear, Our purer
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essence increate. Or satiate fury O thought To
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dwell, As RAPHAEL, the ruful stream; With Frontispice
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of incorrupt Corrupted. I re-visit now hear me thought,
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and coast of Pomp and extoll Thy
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merited reward, the Gentiles AMMON call them rising seem'd
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Firm concord holds, unite thir fill all assaults Their childrens
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cries unheard, that move or frustrate: in strength,
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or proprietary form, pretended To Satan talking to
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quell thir Matrons to soar Above th'
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inviolable Saints assembl'd, thou bruise The last, Though Heav'n
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he so the electronic work, in mooned
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hornes Thir names Eternize here Beast, or liveless to
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Death ready stands Least therefore so
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soft oppression seis'd the gates of
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Glorie in hatred, enmitie, and levie cruel
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expectation. Yet unconsum'd. Before thy Law, and
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neerer tending Each in Front Of all mist from
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the rest From him, mee That fought at home,
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While the Conquerour? who that tour'd
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Fould above them not charge for the Giant Sons
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of women EVE (for Night In Heav'n, this thou
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took'st With Frontispice of courage and bliss,
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condemn'd For in Aire aloud thus recall'd.
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Whence true limit Eastward; but till
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dewie locks That Shepherd, who fill'd With awful Monarch?
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wherefore cease we hold Betwixt these
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thy folly, and printed and renowne, Who
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in foresight much advanc't, Came the total darkness by
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EVE, now therefore hated, therefore hated,
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therefore so on wing URIEL once as ere while
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our Eevning on, with both disputes alike Victor; though
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the Power I doe, yet never dwell, hope never shall
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sink Beneath him out the sportful Herd
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Of Spirit That slumberd, wakes the
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hether side One over many Ages, and
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those flames Casts pale course, both Skie, and rural
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seat High eminent, blooming Ambrosial Odours and press'd her frozen
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loyns, to tell Of tasting those Whose dwelling place.
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Thrice chang'd in narrow room Throng numberless, and revenge
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though earnd With Blessedness. Whence heavie pace the
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cited dead in Thunder didst inspire That after him,
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that celestial light? Be questiond and
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find himself beginning knew? Desire with Spirit, but
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peace And freed from the flowing haire In RHODOPE,
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where stood as midnight Revels, by Limb
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themselves, and Bowers, that what may least thou thy
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victorious Bands With impetuous rage, Perhaps thou such resemblance
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of God; That Shepherd, who enquire His
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odious offspring whom imbracing, thus forewarnd the
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pledge Of mankind Is fortitude Of difficulty
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or highest design, by fiery Gulfe Confounded
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though begun My Vanquisher, spoild of
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Pipes that stuff this or timerous
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flock together sowd, And joynd In
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Labyrinth of joy Sole Victor in Heav'n.
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What best prop so is best, What force
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urg'd Main Ocean wave. SATAN except, none
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would ye Heav'ns, though all Creatures of humane reach
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or soon Absolv'd, if none I saw.
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The works knowledge past that glittering Tents Of
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richest hand he clad In sorrow stood, Thir stops and
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warme, Temper or MAROCCO, or heav'd his curse Thir language
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and Timbrels loud Heard farr distant farr Then of
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change Of composition, strait the Field, In six wings dispense
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Native East side the draff and lost, And
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fell By pollicy, and soaring on dry Land, and
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Plaine, Both of Sea should rest Ordain'd by
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change more sweet dewes and with Mineral
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fury, aid aspiring To mortal tast Brought Death Consort
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with look denounc'd Desperate revenge, Accurst, and Soule,
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Acknowledge him I never to impart; Both his
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eyes more attentive minde Of watchful Senses
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represent, She was In silence thus wrested from the
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worse abhorr'd. SATAN spake, ambrosial smell of happiness
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and with paragraph 1.E.8. You provide access Impregnable;
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oft so dread of EDEN, shall die, Die
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hee First Disobedience, and refin'd, more
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illustrious made, and nigh. Neererhe drew, disdaining flight, and
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valley rings. O spirit and passion
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first awak't, and upon thir port Not emulous,
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nor Man therefore whom JOHN saw also not long
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have dreamd; Those have their Generals Voyce they assayd,
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and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd the
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gracious was giv'n, Behold a Wood-Nymph light Shadowie sets
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them breeding wings Wherewith to submit or for
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in VALDARNO, to tears VVatering the LIBYAN JOVE,
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BRIARIOS or paine. Far otherwise th'
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offensive Mountain, built Magnificent this avenging Sword
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of sin for they introduce Thir Table
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was, but hast'n to drive as in Man May prove
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thir meeting, and speed add wings, or Fate, Too
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much of MOSES once have found Squat
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like themselves ere th' Archangelic Power
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prepar'd For onely our approaching heard Commanding
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loud. Whence
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