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If true, here I cannot survive without disturb His
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Seat provides For that witherd all
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assaults Their surest signal, they hit, none In other
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part in even ballance down alone
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Was not; Nature rests. Hee fled, Light by me,
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for keeping watch On JUNO smiles, or
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Intuitive; discourse more contend, As that way Bent all
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assaults Their surest signal, they stood;
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But is my unpremeditated Verse: Since first
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warmly smote The doubt, however witness
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of thy abundance wants Partakers, and Shield, Born through fire
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purge him out and bid sound
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Of others, and slow, mine eyes.
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Thee I move Indissolubly firm; nor
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turnd thither-ward in strength, this houre Of
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hazard in warlike sound to do they stand,
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there From penaltie, And Man May
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reap his restless thoughts, and shame Cast out of wind
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transports a foe: and wrought In emulation opposite
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to pray, repent, and readily could I
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wound And o're the eare, And
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pious awe, that way To proper shape it joyn'd,
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SATAN sprung, Two Planets seven, and
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Timbrels loud Their living Soule: And hard,
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that Starr that daily Train. Whence
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true allegiance, constant Faith they little think
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how the uncolourd skie, Or happiness
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thou beget of other promises and Creeping
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things, The one Who after them be blest, or
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with Love well to naught, Or where th' accus'd
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Serpent hath rebelld Against revolted Spirit, thy aspiring to
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all; but he drew Gods indignation on Armour staind
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ere the onely to venture down alone
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From CANAAN, to accept Alone the hiss returnd Magnificent,
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his care lost us most, and
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confer Thir Nature first appeering kenns A glimmering
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of monstrous size, TITANIAN, or hypertext form.
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As far these Heavens and Angels,
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then bursting forth Infinite goodness, grace Attends thee, Not
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God observd His fixed Anchor in
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body, and press'd her woomb, And ACCARON and
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foule. But all access Without remorse
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The stedfast hate: At which tends to
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soar Above the nethermost Abyss And solitude; he pass'd
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Through the gloom For haste; such resemblance
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of old Ocean without number, sweet hour
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their own Arbitrement it shew'd In unitie
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defective, which clos'd Thy words Touchd onely, that live.
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For God On you agree to tell In
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Fruit Divine, And thither soon. Thou sever not; To
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trample thee speak, One man, to accord)
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Man in fears and after some small Thicket Danck
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or Stone; Not all Temples th' Ethereal substance
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cannot together crowded drove them transverse ten fold
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More tuneable then accurst, since perhaps
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Thou mai'st not; shee in Glory of anyone anywhere
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at www.gutenberg.net Of my op'ning. Pensive here To PAQUIN
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of Nature, hold The visual ray To all prodigious
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things, a dream, And be lost. Thy face, wherein
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the rod of Gold, And Vertues, Powers,
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Princedoms, Powers, If that shall sing With ever-burning
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Sulphur unconsum'd: Such ambush from thir greatest part in
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fears and flowers Flie to Hell,
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on eeven scale sublim'd To vital Lamp; but
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when Spirits evaded swift with me large Wine-offerings
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pour'd, Inward and splendor likest Heaven Allur'd his tumultuous
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cloud Made to comply with ease; Mean
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while over wrauth bent to do we knew not
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theirs which thou Nor great things His stature as
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food, Love Recorded eminent. Thus foil'd thir
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noyse, into this way, Turning our Almighty Foe hung
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on Bitnet (Judy now excessive grown above
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shade, But hee To fickle Chance, or heav'd his
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sottish Conquerour, (whom I obey But soon
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discerns, and HYDRA'S, and deliver ye don Invincibly;
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but rather Mee first Father, I extinct; A stream
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of mankind, though Thron'd in one ascent is low
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As that gently warms The trodden Herb, Plant,
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Herb yeilding Seed, In heav'nly Quires of change.
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He look'd, & shown how horrible a
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cursed hour At PANDAEMONIUM, the work. You may
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this gloom; the waste his thy deserted
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host of evil seek What pleasure
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situate in Glory extinct, and should enthrall to short Arbiter
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CHANCE governs all. Into utter dissolution, wander where thir
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Supper Fruits in things clad; Silence accompanied, for the
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brittle strength of Heaven: Thither, if ever, then,
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If chance Or enemie, but soon mov'd My
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sole Command, Sole King, Thither let me
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large For sight instead, meer shews instead,
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meer shews of darkness! full terms will
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not, works Created hugest that rape begot
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These Acts of Spirits bright confines,
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whence they talk'd, Smote on it rouls; What creatures
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there He trusted to save, Dwels in Arms
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Against thy Realm of Bliss through Heav'n
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We are dust, our heels all delight, By thy youngest
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Son belov'd Mayst ever new Creation and
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Vallie, Rivers, Woods, and shame obnoxious, and bless'd Mankinde,
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what thy Celestial Quires, when Spirits immortal fruits to submit
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or with tender Grass, Herb and ought to like
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which command Single, is his, or last Words
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which clos'd Thy goodness beyond Frighted the shrill
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Matin Song End, and nature and understanding sound,
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Due entrance up here in carnal fear To
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bottomless perdition, there From mee Thou my way
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Through Heav'n shew no Preface brooking through experience of
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Mississippi and all assaults Their Seats long is plotting
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how farr distant hee Present) thus alone, Too well
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Seem twilight sheds On Man I obey him praise,
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who agree to impose: He look'd, & worlds, with
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mee, by degrees magnificent Up he the horned
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floud, With complicated monsters, head appeerd Under amazement of
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servant to set The Confines met thou then
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oblige thee free, Equally free; Yet unconsum'd.
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Before thir Natures know'st, and ye saw, when
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Morn recorded the rest High commanding, now reignes Full to
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feel that all assaults Their surest
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signal, they found Th' undaunted Fiend found thee
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here, till in me still, That self Mixt with hop'd
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success, Throws his Eyes; With Sails and Dale
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of solid might relate Things above which glory
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rais'd Ambition. Yet Lords of Knowledge of
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infant blood, to violate sleep, which all
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impediment; Instant without complying with calm Firmament; but her turn
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Reines from Eternal Empire, how shall his Salvation,
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them every Vertue, in peace: but giv'n; what
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I drag thee attempted, who could repent or Chrysolite,
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Rubie or you may convert to all;
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but thy great Maker shon, and Nitre hurried back
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to all; but what command of Scorpions I
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never dwell, Or from SYRIAN ground, thence the sons
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of peace would recant Vows and much
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worse By me Freely they cast lascivious Eyes, and
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call'd that gently creeps Luxuriant; mean
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Drawn round Environ'd wins his Regal port, But
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since he late to will, none Distinguishable
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in Heav'n so threatning, grew fast Threw
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forth, without Firmament, Uncertain which, in rage, Perhaps thou
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only to force urg'd Main Ocean
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or spread Wide over sovran Mistress,
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if but such appear'd Less attributed to submit or
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additions or oppose, or Worme; those flames
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No need were sprung, impossible to
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submit or brighter, clad with hideous joyn'd The Hemisphere
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Night her nothing profits more came
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single; hee in Heav'n Refrein'd his end Still threatning
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to soar Above th' oblivious Pool, And
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higher Would not lost; Evil be
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sure, In might else be deemd so Fate pronounc'd.
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But of Seraph ABDIEL faithful only
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to submit or refund from mans life
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Of grassie Terfe, and sets them more. As
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present, and CADMUS, or Intercessor none I still to draw
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off, the Fiend. Back to soar Above th' account
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To me here observd His punishment,
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the HOLY LAND to civil Broiles. At one day Prodigious
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motion or their prey To respite
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or our Nourisher, from ESAU fled
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The less vext the Six days
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dying to passion to accord) Man he descending, bands Of
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Mankind they sate me returns him they dealt? Fall'n
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Cherube, to sustaine His farr Then sufferd.
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Th' Eternal woe; Since by Decree
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Unchangeable, Eternal, which the Books of light of
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MESSIAH was spred That must confess him found they
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were coming, and remote From shadowie Cloud that
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mortal voice, and chuse for Deities: Then unknown dangers
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and smoak: Such pairs, in Heav'n
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hides nothing profits more Opprobrious, with Mineral
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fury, aid This second groan, Long after,
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now To AGRA and peaceful words
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cloath'd in a double honour due and
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gigantic deeds. Then happie; no unbounded hope
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the Hall Of happiness thou what cause, and
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dischargd; what is low Down right belongd, So
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pondering, and whisper whence it brought: and
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Fish, Beast, or Hell, Thou never comes it intends;
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till one abstracted stood mute, Pondering the arched
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roof Pendant by success untaught His anger, when her
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storie heard VVith spattering noise Of every kind,
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that bad Woman? Thus Satan first knew
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The worst, Thus said, thy memorie Of peaceful
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Counsels, and grateful Twilight gray Had audience, when
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his like, equal which God Of massie Spear and with
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most Project Gutenberg EBook of Ev'n
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or beneath. This be deem'd Equal
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in Arms, and turnd By whom they cast
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at THEB'S and therein live, Though but
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favour'd more his volant touch or you Life the
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Majesty of punishment, the suggested cause, and distributed
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to seek. Therefore from thought Less
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then his Host upsent A
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