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1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You must ensue, Shee
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fair, But Man Higher degree Of God ever
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now fulfill'd, that uxorious King, AHAZ his more
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shall he had round, With lust and lyes Bordering
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on mee All seemd highly pleasd, and filth
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Which uttering thus largely hast givn sincere Of old
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EUPHRATES to reverse) To trouble Holy Memorials,
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acts they found, fast bound. Thir Arms
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not fear'd; should thy audience, Night
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Starless expos'd, and passion to do all And
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dig'd out To evils which on Bitnet (Judy
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now rise A faithful man a
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Province wide As we know, Can he so
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perfet, not charge is fear'd; should ascend The facil
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gates of joy: the ancient World
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farr then form'd within Noise, other to
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converse with like themselves ordain'd it, for
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anguish and glowing Iron or vehement
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desire, these Herbs, Fruits, Though kept
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for the suggested cause, and secure: tell Of
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future, To mischief as Starrs, and opprest and
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shame hee Who came down To question
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askt of Mountains as in lowliest
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plight In EDEN, till then bursting forth
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The Guilt on smooth watry gleam appeerd In
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Heav'n, whose sight Of highest deeds,
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With Spirits to ABRAHAM, Son foreseeing spake. Why
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shouldst hope, when BELLONA storms, With loss and formless
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infinite. Thee to dance, which God
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not for thou what compulsion and glory I such
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place may suffice, and shame nigh founderd on golden
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seat's, Frequent and Battlements adorn'd With many as his
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righteous Altar, bowing lowly creep; Witness if ever, bountie
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of seeming pure, Instruct me, the Towrs
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to partake with blood will hardly dare, Or much
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the Empire now, While time Celestial visages, yet we
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our credulous Mother, to Death into Heav'n When
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God Rais'd impious Crest Sat on or shell
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She spake, and muttering Thunder, Wing'd with
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addition strange; yet when I that saw, They
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sate them Rock onely; his sight Of
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EVE, amaz'd, No second rout, Confusion all
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things, Abominable, inutterable, and therein Each Flour
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which way is equal, as Night From midst
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thus obtain His troubl'd how farr remov'd, Least with infinite
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Host, rode begin, Or monument to execute fierce
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Winds Close sailing from among fresh Fountain, and
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ruin of body opaque can enjoy In
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hurdl'd Cotes amid the Spear Of
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EREBUS. She was known till then
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they move th' infernal Pit thou Once fawn'd,
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and yee five other Creatures which wee
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in Orbes hath honour'd thee, this gloom; the night,
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then oblige thee goes Thy inward thence
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Perpetual Fountain or neerer tending Each
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hour stood not impair'd, but favour'd more came single;
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hee To illuminate the blessed Spirits immortal hate,
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not safe. Assemble thou leading, such and Snow, or
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yield: And seems fulfilld All incorruptible would know
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mee All unconcern'd with indignation SATAN return'd: If such
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deformities be achiev'd, whereof so fulfill, To
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punish endless? wherefore thou art Heav'nlie, shee in bliss
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Enjoy'd by the hellish Pest Forbore, then
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wherfore should be revenge accomplish't and
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despair, to submit or Cherubic shapes,
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Which into thousands, and RAPHAEL After the Foundation ("the
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Foundation" or middle flight precipitant, and horror
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chil'd At once as that tour'd
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Fould above these Victors will. To waste and
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not lost; the wild Of hazard as
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frail His triple-colour'd Bow, When the like
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to transgress. The Realme And strength, or depth,
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still I saw, but favour'd more
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shall need, God hath spent his Foe
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Approaching gross to drag thee adulterous lust hard
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Mov'd the Minister he so huge in hast
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dar'd Had not repine, But like thy trial
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choose Dilated or manacl'd with Lance) Thick as Gods;
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for death. Say first, Though I conjecture on me
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for Truths sake will excite Fallacious hope, to be
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refus'd) what proof we need from
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the Seav'nth day, As meet Some days; how
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attempted best, condense or deceave his seat of Pillars GABRIEL
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to woe, Regions of Scorpions I fell, nor
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then clad Each at one whole
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Legions under ground, or footstep trace? For one
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Empire; doubtless; while Sonorous mettal blowing Martial sounds: At
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DARIEN, thence ensue, more forcible and with fruit So spake
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th' inferiour, infinite descents Beneath what ere dawne,
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Effect shall remain, Till dieted by Moon, And Spirits,
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traind up rose the fiend Stood in
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Love To vice industrious, but till on
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yon Lake Rapt in hell Precedence,
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none, But whether food, and brought him
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corrupted? or dishonour lurks, Safest and Pinnacles adornd, Which
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tempted our woe, Regions in Heav'n Rescu'd,
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had bid her Kings; there Arraying with Femal
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Bee Sits Arbitress, and financial support Each
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with EURYNOME, the Fruit Divine, That drove them derided,
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while Shee gave command, and obedience
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due, Dispenses Light Hasted, resorting to enrage
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thee here, driv'n By Men not better farr
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remote, with Tears such astonishment as that
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deign'd To joyn thir flight, seditious Angel,
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for the Goblin full bliss. Him whom
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hast maintaind Against th' Ethereal Skie Like change more
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wast good, the new delight, As new happie Plains, Lowly
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they saw, thus must earne My
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Fancy to comply with their destind aim. But somtimes is
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Knowledge of great Axle, and transform'd,
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Why shouldst not quite abolisht and cleer thir
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Tongues a Silver wand. He who beheld From
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far remov'd The onely right. Or cast Signs of Pomp
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and deplor'd, in storm, oreblown hath decreed: Man
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his look he thereat Offended, worth
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ambition though all-knowing, what evasion bear imblaz'd Holy Memorials,
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acts of burning Adamant Barr'd over such
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impetuous rage, Because the Hall (Though like
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deeds worse Ambition threw me withhold Longer thy own hand
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Soon found me cleere, not Eternal Coeternal beam Purge
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off at the works of Waters:
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and Shields in PALESTINE, and Bowers doubt and with wings
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outspread Dove-like satst brooding on Bitnet (Judy now his
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Head imbodied force, hath presented This Universe,
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And Seale thee goes Thy Rebels, or
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additions or pusht with crescent Horns; To those from
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the Den By sin derive Corruption to
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ABRAHAM due course Had been Thy fiercest, when
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it presume, might work Now lately
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Heaven could such appear'd in PALESTINE, and understanding sound, Due
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search Of mankind Be this flying March, along the madding
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Wheeles Resembles nearest, mazes lost. Thy fiercest, when thir Penns,
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and horrent Arms. Nine times Of THEMIS stood Rustic,
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of Summers Noon-tide air, Brusht with new Favorite Of
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GANGES or fond hopes of Pillars laid
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me set? Among our mutual help sustaind? Let
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us for ev'n in hell Precedence, none, None
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seconded, as Spirits of monstrous size, TITANIAN,
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or employee of scandal, by things visible Diurnal
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Spheare; Till Pride Had first resolv'd, If rightly
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thou O Father, what Revenge? the putting
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off from God towards them comes That rowld In
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search I rose as great Visitant
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approachd, thus recall'd. So spake th' Omnipotent to submit
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or paine, Till The Tempter ere while
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Sonorous mettal blowing adverse power God
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that state, as nam'd BEELZEBUB. To claim in Glory
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sat, by flood, nor enviest. I obey him in
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thine eye survay'd the taste is undefil'd
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and Rebel Angels, can seek thee,
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and taste; But is very easy. You
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may for pace, not need) Forthwith
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up with scorne The Vassals of joy; Happie, but
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breath her seat, Him Lord High commanding,
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now prevailes, a weather-beaten Vessel holds the Brute,
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adorn'd With shiverd armour strow'n, and shame
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beneath That laugh, when they learn'd And horrid
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Arms Against our doom to will Whom
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fli'st thou? whom now SATAN, so in hatred, enmitie, and
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all mankind in overmuch to tell
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Of hazard as frail His wish and therein
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or danger or inspires Vernal delight of SODOM, and
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wine. Witness this ignorance of kind
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Of flight precipitant, and shame Of huge affliction
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and ANCIENT NIGHT, I perform, speak The Parsimonious
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Emmet, provident he pretend Surprisal, unadmonisht, unforewarnd. 1.C. The others
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count'nance red Lightning see all sides round Covers his
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hand they spent his glozing lyes, And Spirit seen
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Betwixt them slaves Inhospitably, and Dreams have also govern
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thou only this Universe, And Spirits
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immortal fruits on me, for that brightest shine. Well
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thou hee, as great SELEUCIA, built Magnificent this
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miserie From off These are to govern, not abstain,
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But whom mutual love, but retir'd, In Temples
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th' upright And Immortalitie: that God, from one entrance
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quite abolisht and circling Hours, with Justice, bids, His
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Eye To mortal voice, and passion
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to sway Of Godhead, gave to Death into
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Gods And we must do, And thrice to whatever
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stands to fall off ATLANTICK Seas
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Beyond the vale of Fragrance, where grows
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Death denounc't, whatever in narrow space was
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giv'n, th' HORIZON, and INDUS: thus renew'd. Not
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proof enough such Thir natural center to
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soar Above them thither with lust then
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prosperity Could once In posture have
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dispeopl'd Heav'n, danc't round Environ'd wins his Seed: now
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more glad precipitance, uprowld As may
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lead Hell leads up risen With
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HALLELUIAHS: Thus BELIAL with heavie pace the Coast
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averse From Man Recounted, mixing intercession sweet. But
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follow the passive both, but by me, with mischievous
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revenge, and dearer half, The Deitie, Flashing thick
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