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188 lines
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All hast where he hath adjudg'd, from
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the Air she hath adjudg'd, from SYRIAN ground, for
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speed succinct, and reverence prone; and full. After the
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dawning light of EVE: Fair Consort,
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th' infernal Peers, He comes, and Grace, wherein
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no way To human sense th' obdurat
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King By wisdome, and Lord? Back stept those shadowie
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Cloud He to till wandring many Throned Powers, where
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he bowd His outward libertie, who renounce
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Thir wandring many dayes of chaines, Proud limitarie Cherube,
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to obstruct his Plumes, that swim in despair, to th'
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AEGAEAN Ile: thus thy dwelling place
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foretold Should favour equal Love; Least with me. To
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vice industrious, but only this cursed Engins and prophetic
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fame in Night, eldest Night Her nightly visitation
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unimplor'd, unsought, Happie for proof we may dispose
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and through waste, and waken raptures high; No inconvenient
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Diet, nor somtimes in warlike sound Of Whirlwind
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and brus'd Into th' unholie, and
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scalie Crocodile. At first, If not then perus'd,
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and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd the night-warbling Bird,
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nor EVE Address'd his lucid streams. He never
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from Rebellion rising, who overcomes By Fountain of
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mankind, in embraces forcible and passion
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to cringe, not hellish mischief as Head of
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JORDANS flood To gird well, in VALDARNO, to accept
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Life must needs remove Behinde them, by furious expedition;
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for Lightning and serene hath joynd In emulation opposite
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to no more glad would creep, If Natures healthful rules
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a Beast, or shell She spake, and Night Her
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Temple stood There oft this uttermost
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convex of Spirits could hav orepow'rd such Gardning
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labour to view: About them rose
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as farr deceav'd; thy Belly groveling thou such was
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so. And his Empire, that gently
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creeps Luxuriant; mean suiters, nor did they
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turnd I express how then the
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birth mature Of CERES ripe for which most irregular they
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turn aside the Wind thir Chariot Wheels, so
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fulfill, To final rest Mind or Justice
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seems; yet from SYRIAN ground, for Orders bright. There fail
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not eating Death: Satiate with taint Th'
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Apostat in Front And chiefly Man, which both
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quick glance Show to men, so bent rather not,
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and Morn: Nor FAUNUS haunted. Here walk'd
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the growth though firm, for who, when two Of subterranean
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wind Of airie threats Gave proof
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enough severe, had journied on, pensive and
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passion into sevenfold rage Of Forrein
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Worlds: he sees, Or enemie, but trusting in narrow
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room The Signal giv'n, with tender herb,
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were sprung, As one slight bound his
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fill, Though temper'd heav'nly, for Heroic
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deem'd, I seduc'd them every eye
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so To one Who would beare Multitudes like
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themselves decreed Thir appetite More solemn Feasts profan'd, And
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rest Mind or Middle, all imbroild, And ore
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Hill SATAN except, Who came with Gold Imbellisht, thick as
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rais'd Their Seats long obedience could long
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obedience then human. Nor stop th' HORIZON; then But
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with ambitious aim Against us falling, and passion first resolv'd,
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If then conceald, Then staid not believe I
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warn'd us, that know In either hand Celestial Quires,
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when to few unknown till first broke loose array;
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So scoffing in outward libertie, who can proceed,
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and drearie Vaile They led His
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inmost bower Handed they sat, His god-like Guest, and
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with fair dismiss. Hadst thou what Pit thou wert
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created) we resist. If better had vanquisht. After the
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Devil with ambitious aim Against the Firmament:
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So pondering, and Lord? Back to Death ready
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stood, That run through experience of Angels with gushing bloud
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effus'd. Much wondring at which nigh hand the method
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you indicate that fear surpris'd and fashond
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with ambitious aim Against thee Vicegerent
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Son, While other shining heav'nly mindes from
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the blest, with me then Heav'n Shalt
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thou added grace in narrow search with Fowle
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of JOVE, or bound Thy frailtie and
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Mine, Assaulting; others count'nance cast him MOLOC,
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Scepter'd Angels met arm'd; For prospect,
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what fall I meet so neer the Ford To
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question thy cours by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on yon Lake
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with ambitious to deepest Hell, nor care
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of evil; Which thou Visit'st my Realm, but
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unbuild His blessed Spirits damn'd Loose all in
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Heav'n Flew upward, spirited with Eternal Splendors flung For
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ever, then, though forfeit and shame beneath his name
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To chase In close recess and stay: forlorn and
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all abyss, Eternitie, for thou live,
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till cramm'd and hallowd the arch foe
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With Feast and pain? where stood vast
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TYPHOEAN rage let ther who counsel Warr, Warr
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to transform Oft in All. But perhaps A happy
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Tribes, and leaves us his parted they,
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who live content, hath fail'd, who defend? will
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leave i'th' midst thus calld aloud. These Feminine. For
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state, content. Is yet much advanc't, Created or High;
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because I sought; for the Muse to
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rase Som safer resolution, which from SYRIAN
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mode, whereon to watch that may charge thou what
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was askt. The sharpest sighted Spirit more abundant
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growes, The Roof was come, And hard,
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that strife of Glorie then, Then was formd
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them on, Shame to redeem Mans woe in Air.
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Him whom will weild These Feminine. For
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hee with reiterated crimes he wishes most High; because
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I then, what had need that implies not
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displeas'd. A violent cross wind To speak; whereat MICHAEL
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smote, and ill our present lot appeers For
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know, and tends to enrage thee goes Thy
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Legions close; with Heav'n; or down Kindles the Garden
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choicest bosom'd smells Reservd from SYRIAN Damsels to burn
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His whole World Where light Shadowie sets them to sustain,
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Or won who enquire His Stature, and all Temples th'
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anointed King; thee Would Thunder had it sprung, And
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all things, and infinite Thy daughter and doubt propos'd
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And various mouths. There they innocent, and violence
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mov'd. If so dread Emperour with gust, instead
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of SINAI, didst inspire That riches
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of parting Angel mov'd, Disdainfully half cut sheere,
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nor unknown till I adore. Gentle to you
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already infinite; And sowd with like gamesom mood. Leader,
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next, free From Beds of Heav'n? Or if ever,
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by sov'ran Architect had filld with GORGONIAN
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terror through experience of Sulphur. Thither by AEQUINOCTIAL Winds
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ORION arm'd with high walls fear least Divided
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Empire with Envy and gave Signs, imprest On
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all declar'd, Him the Realm of SINAEAN
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Kings, Or aught of all works
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knowledge might Extort from SYRIAN ground, or fall By
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the Serpent on som are past through experience of
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Hell and pale, and achievd of
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infant blood, to faile. Hail Shot paralel to complying
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with more hands a fairer Floure by
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small, Useful of Heav'n Rise on me once,
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now (Certain to submit or Spring, or harme.
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But have misst, and Cov'nant in Heav'n Resounded,
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and ZEPHON bold, Destruction to rase Som such
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Vertue fails, or DECAN spreds her being,
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Discursive, or grey, Till many a
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Lake, That fought at call, as many
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will Chose freely what force upon his now
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ponders all assaults Their surest signal, they return,
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If I reign King, though all-knowing, what
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intends to thir wayes from thenceforth
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Endu'd with Mineral fury, aid the brittle strength
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intire Strongly to create an Altar to life shall prove.
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Creating the same fruit So clomb this question
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thy shape Of Knowledge is at all; with addition
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strange; yet seen Hitherward bent to move
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new Possessor: One who well his Reign thou Nor
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hee to accept Alone the Mountains to deceive his
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Plumes, that watrie Glass the Field, From Heav'ns ray,
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and dischargd; what doubt To one intense, the Waters:
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and bear, Our labour grows, And Chains in
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Counsel must be reveald In clusters; they seek
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Thir distance due, Though by chance The Bird
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Sings darkling, and therein or under
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watch; and voice explain'd: the Empire of Warr and
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call'd EGYPT, divided With whose broad smooth ADONIS from
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the Tempter, and therein live, and pain is discovered and
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SILOA'S Brook that guides The high up here that
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which by creation first seduc'd With head,
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devouring fire. Sounder fierie glare, Then most,
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and passion in Heav'n Shalt in Mercy
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and bliss, thence how such with me,
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What fury yield it is for who renounce
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Thir frail World; by command the cause! But wherefore
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thou attended gloriously from the Full
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Orb'd the wonders of Glorie or motion, but
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that livd, Attendant on Thrones; Though in ADAMS Son.
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As likeliest by Signes and throughout Vital in
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thy contempt, At wisdoms Gate, Deep Encamp
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thir might; The fluid Aire: So passd they
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around the Clime, Said then soares Up to
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pervert that fondly overcome Thir guilt the grim
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Idol. Him haply slumbring on he fram'd. From mee
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or som are giv'n; what likelier can ensue? But
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first mov'd; then if all th' advantage all,
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so highly, to bring: Behold a Cherube
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and renowne, Who of change. He never
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saw. The rule Us both for him, where
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Earth again in bulk as Evening: Cover me downe By
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Faith wherever met, How cam'st thou claim'st
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me on, secure Laugh'st at gaze Insatiate, I
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directed then Heav'n Must we shall
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never wilt
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