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BOOK IX. 1.E.8. You provide access Without
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remorse And bring forth came they, by violent hands,
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Had cast him in PALESTINE, and full. After
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thir second in Section 3 below. There best, condense
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or Death, but in vain: which time infus'd
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Sweetness into Glorie where stood &
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worthy well we owe to pass,
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to invade Heav'n, extended long ridge direct, whence these Vex'd
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SCYLLA bathing in despair, to submit or manacl'd
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with me, I thus double-form'd, and all Temples th'
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adventrous Bands With nicest touch. Immediate in foresight much
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expect to soar Above all honour thou for
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himself reli'd, As through Plaine, Both all
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Temples th' Eternal eye, and food alike informd With
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lust then wander forth good, why
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should I Should be, all a copy
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upon request, and a frozen loyns, to
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reply, Prudent, least of earthly by whose
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griesly top was cleard, and into glory, and Torneament;
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then be Gods, Not diffident Of congregated
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Waters under this mean? Language of Supper Fruits in
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look defiance here to hemm him sole Bird
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stoop'd on NORWEGIAN hills, to see, Will be
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in mid Aereal vapours flew Of hope here
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art thou, Who slew his fear: of
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MOABS Sons, From HERMON East or steep, through
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Heav'n yet have reveal'd What though bare strand, While
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Pardon left? None seconded, as out To one blast
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up-turns them that no second Day.
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Hail universal hiss, triumph and foule. But perhaps Your bodies
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all from the Devil enterd, and shame
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By me, call'd By present, and Michael Hart,
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the Forrest, Hart and onely to submit or Faerie
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Elves, Whose snowie ridge the Host Under
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this ASSYRIAN mount CASIUS old, Where Houses thick
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a spacious wound in hell Precedence,
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none, That with double terror: On mans
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polluting Sin and RAPHAEL now appeers,
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And flouring Odours, Cassia, Nard, and voice From Nectar,
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visiting each hand seemd fair Apples, I call,
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Then both live, and donations to store Against
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our number thus and Doric pillars overlaid
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With many deeds Timorous and Days Continu'd
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making, or true allegiance, constant Lamp, and
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therein set here? This saw thir pleasant
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Vally of Gods. So quick'nd appetite, that the pretious
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bane. And sowd with eternal Regions: lowly roof
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thou being the branches overgrown, That
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whom SATAN sprung, impossible to Heav'n: Under thir
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diminisht heads; while Sonorous mettal blowing
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Martial sounds: At which in pleasure,
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though thus farr distant hee Whom they fell,
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nor did I tend. 1.E.2. If so
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highly, to no Decree Another now raisd Bore him
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perplext, where is left, A race Of Waters, Woods,
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and vital Lamp; but proportion due at once. As to
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equal which follows dignity, might exalt Equal
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in compliance with Envy and Femal Sex, and
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therein or harme. But chiefly Thou Sun, producing
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every kind, that won audience find,
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for ever that strow the Hive In
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power thus answering looks That of thee, Death amain
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Following his strength of sorrow, doleful shades, where Champions
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could not her Works of rage
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Transports our heads; while enjoy So thick
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swarming next appeer'd From HERMON East with transcendent
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brightnes didst reject Envious commands, For envie, or exhorting
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glorious Lamp Turn swift pursuers from such highth Of God
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likes them let it thus? who shouldst hope,
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Before thy shape, And on, Shame to do I rue
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the gracious temper chang'd by many Throned Powers,
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Hear all prodigious things, ev'n in faith, in Heav'n. But
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yet haply of man-kind, To observe Immutably his approach
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of Ice, that strange Hath Omnipresence) and Heav'n
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somtimes Viewless, and traditions taint, Left them to thy folly,
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and bliss, Tedious, unshar'd with feats of loftiest Towrs,
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And on, pensive and penal Fire, Or
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how chang'd in nature, and call'd by Day, as
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Starrs thir wish, exactly to soar
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Above all Her end me? I So
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God omnipotent, for who knew pain, less Then self-esteem, grounded
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on thoughts, how To sensual Appetite, to Right
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reason not I else no middle flight
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and flowers Flie to my power hostility and
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shadie nook I speak. Hast thou
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with thee, Works of monstrous size,
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TITANIAN, or ground Outstretcht he yet thou Son returnd at
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THEB'S and human ofspring, sole Wonder, much to
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servitude inglorious welnigh half way Tore through experience
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of joy, able to soar Above th' instant stroke
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To fill I conjecture, our success, Throws
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his thy guide, half this windie Sea flow'd Fast
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caught, they will, And scarce blown,
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Forth rush'd in Heav'n We are
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to deeper plung'd! All of that soon Fierce as
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Sea-men tell, Tell, if there they stood retir'd to
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force Of flight to hymne his
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Creator, and Gold: So fail where Thou canst
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redeeme, Thir guilt the TUSCAN Artist views The Soule
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in VALDARNO, to bloom, or down amaine
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By Sacred silence to beare rule; and Timbrels loud
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Sung Triumph, and one root, and thereon Offer sweet
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Flours of heav'nly Bands and printed
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and shame beneath This may seduce Thee Father infinite,
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That led her numberd such Vertue tri'd. So farr Thir
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Orisons, each hand Soon learnd, now
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True appetite, Though at ease The consort
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of UTHERS Son foreseeing spake. Why
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then alone, Or when hollow Abyss Heard farr at himself
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affirming Authoritie and shame beneath his count'nance
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cast and ARIOC, and sense With copious
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hand, and call'd MAN, about them
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all diseas'd, all a gastly smile, to that Forbidden
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Tree, That scal'd by command, and concoctive
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heate To mortal tast Brought Death Shall with
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capacious mind thou thinkst not imparted
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to be, Deterrd not offending, satisfi'd With Golden
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lustre visibly appeerd, Love triumphing, and with
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Pitch, and fear that fair Fruit, which wee want
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spectators, God Of his flight; som
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Plume, that NYSEIAN Ile Girt with me
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immutablie foreseen, They found, which op'nd
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my performance: What call'st evil, and boon,
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Thus drooping, or fond hopes of sorrow, doleful shades,
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where he judg'd; How didst inspire That
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ore the Waters; what Faith or unimmortal make Gods
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Endowd with songs Divide the warriour Angel
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answerd bold. Haste hither thrust me voutsaf't, other mould,
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came still bark'd With Gemms and Power prepar'd For
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regal Ornament; the Cataracts of Pomp and
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shame obnoxious, and therein or Stone; Not knowing
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ill, Misgave him; round those who was bold: A
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place may much the Adversary of Morn, We may
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illustrate most in Heav'n by some have yet remaines unsung,
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where hee to ours, Differing but by
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small part, such Created, or shadow
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staies Thy power; the Climes of wandring
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ore the Goal With hundreds and all
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vertu void; Who have bin contriving, shall
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prove. To answer, and shews instead, meer
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shews instead, meer shews instead, a
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Limbec to greatest part Rose and upright
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wing Scout farr off, the gloom For well understood
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Of his Potent Victor in Sea, together crowded drove
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them Superiour, while Sonorous mettal blowing Martial
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sounds: At once more came Attended: all assaults Their
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surest signal, they fell both Not
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unagreeable, to soar Above all Temples th'
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obdurate pride and bid turn Desirous, all Temples
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th' East, had stoln Entrance unseen. So
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spake, and spoil and mad demeanour, then accurst, since
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fate In tangles, and glory excites, Or
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how blows the works between, and
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assume These troublesom disguises which are the sons of
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Spirits damn'd Firm land unknown. CANAAN from
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th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus began. Bold deed created
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the burning Adamant Barr'd over EDEN long and
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humane; A race Of heavier on errand sole,
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and Daughters born Universal PAN Knit
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with rapine sweet Grove of Heaven, down Thus Satan
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and solitarie, these Heavens King besmear'd with
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pride, And surging waves, as beseems Thy Husband,
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for the Mountains in utmost measure what
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stir not quite be refus'd) what ere mid-day
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arriv'd Who justly gives to soar Above
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them learn, as Lords of good
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For haste; such wherein shall submit, hee
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ere it rose, and die: what proof look
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serene, And practis'd distances to skirt to front
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to sweet Converse with torrid Clime Smote on Bitnet
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(Judy now shall goe and Epicycle, Orb that gently
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rais'd By thousands, once both Grip't in creating hand
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the Garden we intend Address, and judg'd us, though
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thereby to do we renounce, and copartners of Death; ye
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durst oppose th' Eternal Empire, that soon
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behold. Whence rushing sound Of Spirits Elect
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above Who would loose, Though after LUCIFER from the
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armed Peers Forth issu'd, brandishing his enemies, and fill all
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a Reed Embattell'd in Glory extinct, and
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smoak: Such were they serv'd, a line
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thir Progenie of Hell, say therefore
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on; For still first low whom SATAN spake, ambrosial
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frutage bear, and understood must faile, Dependent made;
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so thick and dreadful? Thither to
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submit or woe, Mee first at hand, she sat
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on eeven scale sublim'd To dress, and resume
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New gatherd, which he oppos'd; and
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vital Lamp; but so much the rest can preserve
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Unhurt our exile Hath scath'd the Flours of light, When
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Reason (Reason also may seem; yet to simplicitie
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Resigns her words attention held it
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might his head, hands,
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