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12 - Paradise Lost - John Milton · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Book seven, Part two, to whom thus Adam gratefully replied,
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  Speaker 1: what thanks sufficient, or what recompense equal? Have I to
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  Speaker 1: render thee divine historian, who thus largely has delayed the
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  Speaker 1: thirst I had of knowledge, and vouchsafed this friendly condescension
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  Speaker 1: to relate things else by me unsearchable, now heard with wonder,
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  Speaker 1: but delight, and as is due with glory attributed to
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  Speaker 1: the high Creator. Something yet of doubt remains, which only
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  Speaker 1: Thy solution can resolve. When I behold this goodly frame,
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  Speaker 1: this world of heaven and earth consisting, and compute their magnitudes,
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  Speaker 1: this earth a spot, a grain, an atom, with the
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  Speaker 1: firmament compared, and all her number'd stars that seemed to
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  Speaker 1: roll spaces incomprehensible for such their distance argues, and their
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  Speaker 1: swift return diurnal, merely to officiate light round this curpacious earth,
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  Speaker 1: this punctual spot, one day and night, in all their
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  Speaker 1: vast survey useless. Besides reasoning, I often admire how nature
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  Speaker 1: wise and frugal could commit such disproportions with superfluous hand,
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  Speaker 1: so many nobler bodies to create greater so manifold to
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  Speaker 1: this one use for aught peers, and on their orbs
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  Speaker 1: impose such restless revolution day by day repeated, while the
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  Speaker 1: sedentary earth, that better might, with far less compass move,
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  Speaker 1: served by more noble than herself, attains her end without
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  Speaker 1: least motion, and receives as tribute such a sumless journey
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  Speaker 1: brought of incorporeal speed, her warmth and light speed. To
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  Speaker 1: describe whose swiftness number fails, Oh spake our sire, and
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  Speaker 1: by his countenance seemed entering on studious thoughts of struce,
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  Speaker 1: which eve perceiving where she sat, retired in sight with
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  Speaker 1: lowliness majestic from her seat and grace, that one who
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  Speaker 1: saw to wish her stay rose and went forth among
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  Speaker 1: her fruits and flowers to visit how they prospered, bud
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  Speaker 1: and bloom her nursery. They, at her coming, sprung and
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  Speaker 1: touched by her fair attendants, gladly agrew. Yet whence she
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  Speaker 1: not as not with such discourse, delighted, or not capable
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  Speaker 1: her ear of what was high, such pleasure she reserved
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  Speaker 1: adam relating she sole auditress, her husband, the relator she
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  Speaker 1: preferred before the angel, and of him to ask chose
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  Speaker 1: rather he she knew, would intermix grateful digressions and solve
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  Speaker 1: high dispute with conjugal caresses from his lip, not words alone,
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  Speaker 1: and pleased her. Oh, when meet now such pairs in
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  Speaker 1: love and mutual honor, join'd with goddish like demeanor. Forth
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  Speaker 1: she went not unattended, for on her as queen, a
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  Speaker 1: pomp of winning graces, waited still, and from about her
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  Speaker 1: shot darts of desire into all eyes, to wish her
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  Speaker 1: still in sight. And Raphael, now, to Adam's doubt, proposed,
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  Speaker 1: benevolent and facile, thus replied, to ask or search, I
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  Speaker 1: blame thee, not, for heaven is as the book of
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  Speaker 1: God before THEE set, wherein to read his wondrous works
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  Speaker 1: and learn his seasons, hours or days, or months or years.
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  Speaker 1: This to attain, whether heaven move or earth imports not,
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  Speaker 1: if thou reckon right the rest from Man or Angel.
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  Speaker 1: The great Architect did wisely to conceal and not divulge
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  Speaker 1: his secrets, to be scann'd by them who ought rather admire,
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  Speaker 1: or if they to try conjecture, he his fabric of
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  Speaker 1: the heavens hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move
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  Speaker 1: his laughter at their quaint opinions wide hereafter, when they
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  Speaker 1: come to model Heaven, and calculate the stars, how they
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  Speaker 1: will wield the mighty frame, How build, unbuild, contrive to
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  Speaker 1: save appearances, how gird the sphere with centric and eccentric
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  Speaker 1: scribbled oree cycle and epicycle orb in orb Already by
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  Speaker 1: thy reasoning this, I guess who art to lead thy offspring,
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  Speaker 1: and supposest that bodies bright and greater should not serve
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  Speaker 1: the less, not bright nor heaven such journeys run Earth
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  Speaker 1: sitting still, when she alone receives the benefit. Consider first,
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  Speaker 1: that great or bright infers not excellence. The Earth, though
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  Speaker 1: in comparison of Heaven, so small nor glistering, may of
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  Speaker 1: solid good contain more plenty than the sun that barren shines,
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  Speaker 1: whose virtue on itself works no effect. But in the
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  Speaker 1: fruitful Earth there first received his beams, unactive, else their
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  Speaker 1: vigor find Yet not to Earth are those bright luminaries officious,
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  Speaker 1: But to thee Earth's habitant, and for the heaven's wide circuit.
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  Speaker 1: Let it speak the maker's high magnificence, who built so spacious,
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  Speaker 1: and his lines stretched out so far that man may
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  Speaker 1: know he dwells not in his own an edif hiss
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  Speaker 1: too large for him to feel, lodged in a small partition,
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  Speaker 1: and the rest ordained for uses to his Lord best known.
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  Speaker 1: The swiftness of those circles attribute, though numberless, to his omnipotence,
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  Speaker 1: that two corporeal substances could add speed almost spiritual me.
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  Speaker 1: Thou think'st not slow? Who since the morning hour set
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  Speaker 1: out from Heaven where God resides, and ere midday arrived
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  Speaker 1: in Eden distance inexpressible numbers that have name. But this
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  Speaker 1: I urge, admitting motion in the heavens, to show invalid
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  Speaker 1: that which THEE to doubt it moved. Not that I
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  Speaker 1: so affirm, though so it seem to THEE who hast
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  Speaker 1: thy dwelling here on Earth. God to remove his ways
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  Speaker 1: from human sense, placed Heaven from Earth so far that
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  Speaker 1: earthly sight, if it presume, might err in things too
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  Speaker 1: high and no advantage gain. What if the Sun be
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  Speaker 1: centered to the world and other stars by his attractive virtue,
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  Speaker 1: and their own incited dance about him various rounds, their
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  Speaker 1: wandering course, now high, now low, then hid, progressive retrograde
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  Speaker 1: or standing still in six thou seest? And what if
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  Speaker 1: seventh to these the planet Earth, so steadfast, though she
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  Speaker 1: seem insensibly three different motions move which else to several spheres,
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  Speaker 1: Thou must ascribe mov'd contrary with thwart obliquities. Or save
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  Speaker 1: the sun his labor, and that swift nocturnal and diurnal
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  Speaker 1: rom supposed invisible else above all stars, the wheel of
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  Speaker 1: day and night, which needs not thy belief. If Earth,
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  Speaker 1: industrious of herself, fetch day, traveling east, and with her
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  Speaker 1: part averse from the Sun's beam, meet night, her other
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  Speaker 1: part still luminous by his ray. What if that light
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  Speaker 1: sent from her through the wide transpicuous air to the
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  Speaker 1: terrestrial moon be as a star in lightning her by
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  Speaker 1: day as she by night, this earth reciprocal. If land
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  Speaker 1: be there, fields and inhabitants her spots, thou ceast as clouds,
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  Speaker 1: and clouds may rain, and rain produce fruits in her
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  Speaker 1: softened soil, for some to eat allotted there, and other suns,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps with their attendant moons, Thou wilt descry communicating male
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  Speaker 1: and female light, which two great sexes animate the world,
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  Speaker 1: stored in each orb, perhaps with some that live for
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  Speaker 1: such vast room in nature, unpossessed by living soul, desert
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  Speaker 1: and desolate only to shine, yet scarce to contribute each orb.
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  Speaker 1: A glimpse of light conveyed so far down to this
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  Speaker 1: habitable which returns light back to them, is obvious to dispute.
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  Speaker 1: But whether thus these things, or whether not, whether the
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  Speaker 1: sun predominant in Heaven rise on Earth or Earth rise
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  Speaker 1: on the sun. He from the east his flaming road begin,
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  Speaker 1: or she, from west her silent course advance with in
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  Speaker 1: offensive pace, that spinning sleeps on her soft axel, while
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  Speaker 1: she paces en and bears thee soft with the smooth
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  Speaker 1: air along. Solicit not thy thoughts with matter's heed. Leave
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  Speaker 1: them to God above him, Serve and fear of other
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  Speaker 1: creatures as him pleases best, wherever placed, Let him dispose.
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  Speaker 1: Joy thou in what he gives to thee. This paradise
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  Speaker 1: and thy fair eve. Heaven is for THEE too high
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  Speaker 1: to know what passes there be lowly wise, think only
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  Speaker 1: what concerns THEE and thy being. Dream not of other worlds,
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  Speaker 1: what creatures there live in? What state, condition or degree?
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  Speaker 1: Contented that thus far hath been revealed not of Earth only,
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  Speaker 1: but of highest Heaven, to whom thus Adam, cleared of doubt, replied,
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  Speaker 1: now fully, hast thou satisfied me pure intelligence of heaven angel,
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  Speaker 1: serene and freed from intricacies, taught to live the easiest way,
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  Speaker 1: nor with perplexing thoughts to interrupt the sweet of life
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  Speaker 1: from which God hath bid dwell far off all anxious cares,
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  Speaker 1: and not molest us unless we ourselves seek them with
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  Speaker 1: wandering thoughts and notions vain. But at the mind or
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  Speaker 1: fancy is to rove uncheck'd, And of her roving is
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  Speaker 1: no end till warned or by experienced taught. She learn
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  Speaker 1: that not to know at large of things remote from use,
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  Speaker 1: obscure and subtle, but to know that which before us
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  Speaker 1: lies in daily life is the prime wisdom. What is
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  Speaker 1: more is fume, or emptiness, or fond impertinence, and renders
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  Speaker 1: us in things that most concern, unpracticed, unprepared, and still
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  Speaker 1: to seek. Therefore, from this high pitch, let us descend
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  Speaker 1: a lower flight and speak of things at hand useful,
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  Speaker 1: whence haply mention may arise of something not unseasonable to
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  Speaker 1: ask by sufferance and thy wonted favor deaind thee I
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  Speaker 1: have heard relating what was done ere my remembrance. Now
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  Speaker 1: hear me relate my story, which perhaps thou hast not heard,
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  Speaker 1: and day is yet not spent till then thou ceast,
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  Speaker 1: how subtly to detain THEE. I devise inviting THEE to hear,
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  Speaker 1: while I relate fond were it not in hope of
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  Speaker 1: thy reply. For while I sit with THEE, I seem
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  Speaker 1: in heaven and sweeter. Thy discourse is to my ear
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  Speaker 1: than fruits of palm tree, pleasantest to thirst and hunger,
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  Speaker 1: both from labor. At the hour of sweet repast, they
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  Speaker 1: satiate and soon feel though pleasant. But thy words, with
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  Speaker 1: grace divine imbued, bring to their sweetness no satiety to
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  Speaker 1: whom thus Raphael answer'd heavenly meek, Nor are thy lips
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  Speaker 1: ungraceful sire of men, nor tongue ineloquent. For God on
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  Speaker 1: thee abundantly his gifts hath also pour'd inward and outward,
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  Speaker 1: both his image, fair speaking or mute. All comeliness and
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  Speaker 1: grace attends THEE, and each word each motion forms. Nor
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  Speaker 1: less think we in heaven of THEE on earth than
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  Speaker 1: of our fellow servant, and inquire gladly into the ways
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  Speaker 1: of God with man. For God we see hath honor'd
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  Speaker 1: THEE and set on man his equal love. Say therefore on,
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  Speaker 1: for I that day was absent, as befell, bound on
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  Speaker 1: a voyage, uncouth and obscure, far on excursion toward the
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  Speaker 1: gates of Hell, squared in full legion such command we
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  Speaker 1: had to see that none thence issued forth a spy
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  Speaker 1: or enemy while God was in his work, lest he
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  Speaker 1: incens'd at such irruption. Bold destruction with creation might have mix'd,
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  Speaker 1: not that they durst without his leave attempt. But us
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  Speaker 1: descends upon his high behests for state as sovereign king,
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  Speaker 1: and to inure our prompt obedience. Fast we found fast
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  Speaker 1: shut the dismal gaits and barricado'd strong but long ere
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  Speaker 1: our approaching heard within noise other than the sound of
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  Speaker 1: dance or song, torment and loud, lament and furious rage.
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  Speaker 1: Glad we returned up to the coasts of light ere
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  Speaker 1: Sabbath evening. So we had in charge but Thy relation. Now,
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  Speaker 1: for I attend pleased with thy words no less than
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  Speaker 1: thou with mine. So spake the god like power, and
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  Speaker 1: thus our sire. For man to tell how human life
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  Speaker 1: began is hard, for who himself beginning knew desire with
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  Speaker 1: thee still longer to converse induced me as new waked
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  Speaker 1: from sound asleep soft on the flowry herb, I found
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  Speaker 1: me laid in balmy sweat, which with his beams the
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  Speaker 1: sun soon dried, and on the reeking moisture fed straight
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  Speaker 1: toward heaven. My wondering eyes, I turned and gazed awhile
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  Speaker 1: the ample sky till raised by quick in distinctive motion.
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  Speaker 1: Up I sprung as thither would endeavorring, and upright stood
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  Speaker 1: on my feet about me round I saw hill dale
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  Speaker 1: and shady woods, and sunny plains, and liquid lapse of
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  Speaker 1: murmuring streams by these creatures that lived and moved, and
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  Speaker 1: walked or flew, birds on the branches, warbling all things
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  Speaker 1: smil'd with fragrance and with joy. My heart o'erflow'd myself.
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  Speaker 1: I then perus'd, and limb by limb, survey'd, and sometimes went,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes ran with supple joints as lively vigor led.
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  Speaker 1: But who I was, or where, or from what cause?
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  Speaker 1: Knew not to speak, I tried and forthwith spake my
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  Speaker 1: tongue obeyed, and readily could name whate'er I saw. Thou
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  Speaker 1: sun said I fair light, and thou en lighten'd earth
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  Speaker 1: so fresh and gay. Ye hills and dales, Ye rivers,
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  Speaker 1: woods and plains, and ye that live and move fair creatures.
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  Speaker 1: Tell tell if ye saw how came I? Thus, how
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  Speaker 1: here not of myself by some great maker? Then, in
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  Speaker 1: goodness and in power pre eminent, Tell me how may
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  Speaker 1: I know him? How adore from whom I have that?
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  Speaker 1: Thus I move and live, and feel that I am
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  Speaker 1: happier than I know. While thus I called and strayed,
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  Speaker 1: I knew not whither from where I first drew air
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  Speaker 1: and first beheld this happy light. When answer none return'd
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  Speaker 1: on a green, shady bank, profuse of flowers. Pensive, I
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  Speaker 1: sat me down there. Gentle sleep first found me, and
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  Speaker 1: with soft oppression seiz'd my drowsed sense, untroubled though I
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  Speaker 1: thought I then was passing to my former state, insensible
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  Speaker 1: and forthwith to dissolve, when suddenly stood at my head
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  Speaker 1: a dream whose inward apparition gently moved my fancy to
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  Speaker 1: believe I yet had being and lived. One came me,
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  Speaker 1: aught of shape divine, and said, thy mansion. Once the
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  Speaker 1: adam rise, first man of men innumerable ordain'd, first father
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  Speaker 1: call'd by thee, I come, thy guide to the garden
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  Speaker 1: of bliss, Thy seat prepar'd, so saying by the hand,
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  Speaker 1: he took me rais'd and over fields and waters as
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  Speaker 1: in air, smooth sliding without step, last led me up
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  Speaker 1: a woody mountain whose high top was plain, a circuit
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  Speaker 1: wide enclos'd with goodliest trees, planted with walks and bowers,
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  Speaker 1: that what I saw of earth before scarce pleasant seem'd,
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  Speaker 1: each tree loaden with fairest fruit that hung to the eye, tempting,
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  Speaker 1: stirred in me sudden appetite to pluck and eat whereat
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  Speaker 1: I waked and found before mine eyes all real as
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  Speaker 1: the dream had lively shadow'd. Here had new begun my wandering,
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  Speaker 1: had not he who was my guide? Up hither from
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  Speaker 1: among the trees appeared presence divine, rejoicing, But with awe
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  Speaker 1: in adoration at his feet, I fell submiss He reared me,
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  Speaker 1: and whom thou sought'st I am said, mildly, author of
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  Speaker 1: all this, thou ceast above or round about thee or
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  Speaker 1: beneath this paradise, I give thee count it thine to
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  Speaker 1: till and keep, and of the fruit to eat. Of
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  Speaker 1: every tree that in the garden grows, eat freely with
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  Speaker 1: glad heart fear here no dearth, but of the tree,
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  Speaker 1: whose operation brings knowledge of good and ill, which I
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  Speaker 1: have set the pledge of thy obedience and thy faith
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  Speaker 1: amid the garden by the tree of life. Remember what
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  Speaker 1: I warn THEE shun to taste, and shun the bitter consequence.
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  Speaker 1: For know the day thou eat'st thereof my soul command
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  Speaker 1: transgressed inevitably, thou shalt die from that day more, and
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  Speaker 1: this happy state shalt lose, expelled from hence into a
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  Speaker 1: world of woe and sorrow. Sternly he pronounced the rigid interdiction,
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  Speaker 1: which resounds yet dreadful in mine ear, though in my
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  Speaker 1: choice not to incur. But soon his clear aspect returned,
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  Speaker 1: and gracious purpose thus renewed. Not only these fair bounds,
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  Speaker 1: but all the earth to THEE and to thy race.
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  Speaker 1: I give as lords possess it, and all things that
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  Speaker 1: therein live or live in sea or air, beast, fish
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  Speaker 1: and fowl. In sign, whereof each bird and beast behold
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  Speaker 1: after their kinds, I bring them to receive from THEE
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  Speaker 1: their names, and pay THEE fealty with low subjection. Understand
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  Speaker 1: the same of fish within their watry residence, not hither summon'd,
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  Speaker 1: since they cannot change their element to draw the thinner air.
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  Speaker 1: As Thus he spake, which bird and beast behold? Approaching
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  Speaker 1: two and two these coring low with blandishment, each bird
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  Speaker 1: stoop'd on his wing. I named them as they passed,
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  Speaker 1: and understood their nature. With such knowledge God endued my
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  Speaker 1: sudden apprehension. But in these I found not what methought
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  Speaker 1: I wanted still, and to the heavenly vision. Thus presum'd
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  Speaker 1: o by what name? For thou above all these, above mankind,
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  Speaker 1: or aught than mankind, higher surpassest far my naming? How
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  Speaker 1: may I adore THEE author of this universe and all
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  Speaker 1: this good to man, for whose well being so amply,
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  Speaker 1: and with hands so liberal, thou hast provided all things?
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  Speaker 1: But with me I see not who partakes in solitude?
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  Speaker 1: What happiness? Who can enjoy alone? Or all enjoying? What contentment? Find?
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  Speaker 1: Thus I presumptuous, and vision bright as with a smile
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  Speaker 1: more brightened, Thus replied, what course thou solitude is not?
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  Speaker 1: The earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished,
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  Speaker 1: and all these at thy command to come and play
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  Speaker 1: before THEE know'st thou not their language and their ways.
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  Speaker 1: They also know and reason not contemptibly. With these find
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  Speaker 1: pastime and bear rule. Thy realm is large, so spake
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  Speaker 1: the Universal Lord, and seem'd so ordering I, with leave
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  Speaker 1: of speech, implored and humble deprecation, thus replied, Let not
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  Speaker 1: my words offend thee heavenly power my maker be propitious
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  Speaker 1: while I speak, Hast thou not made me hear thy substitute,
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  Speaker 1: And these inferior far beneath me. Set among unequals, what
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  Speaker 1: society consort? What harmony or true delight? Which must be
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  Speaker 1: mutual in proportion due given and received? But disparity the
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  Speaker 1: one intense, the other still remiss, cannot well suit with either,
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  Speaker 1: but soon prove tedious alike of fellowship. I speak, such
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  Speaker 1: as I seek fit to participate all rational delight, wherein
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  Speaker 1: the brute cannot be human consort. They rejoice, each with
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  Speaker 1: their kind, lion with lioness, so fitly them in pairs
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  Speaker 1: Thou hast combined. Much less can bird with beast, or
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  Speaker 1: fish with fowl so well converse, nor with the ox
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  Speaker 1: the ape. Worse then can man with beast? And least
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  Speaker 1: of all, where too, th Almighty answered, not displeased, and
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  Speaker 1: nice and subtle happiness. I see thou to thyself proposest
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  Speaker 1: in the choice of thy associates adam and wilt taste
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  Speaker 1: no pleasure, though in pleasure solitary. What think'st thou then
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  Speaker 1: of me? And this my state seem I to THEE
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  Speaker 1: sufficiently possessed of happiness? Or not? Who I am alone
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  Speaker 1: from all eternity? For none I know second to me
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  Speaker 1: or like equal? Much less how have I then, with
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  Speaker 1: whom to hold converse, save with the creatures which I made,
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  Speaker 1: and those to me inferior infinite descents beneath What other
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  Speaker 1: creatures are to THEE he ceased? I lowly answered, to
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  Speaker 1: attain the height and depth of thy eternal ways. All
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  Speaker 1: human thoughts come short. Supreme of things. Thou in thyself
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  Speaker 1: art perfect, and in THEE is no deficience found. Not
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  Speaker 1: so is man but in degree the cause of his desire,
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  Speaker 1: by conversation with his like, to help or solace his defects.
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  Speaker 1: No need that thou shouldst propagate already infinite and through
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  Speaker 1: all numbers absolute though one, but man by number is
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  Speaker 1: to manifest his single imperfection and beget like of his like,
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  Speaker 1: his image multiplied in unity defective, which requires collateral love
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  Speaker 1: and dearest amity. Thou, in thy secrecy, although alone best
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  Speaker 1: with thy self accompanied, seek'st not social communication. Yet so pleased,
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  Speaker 1: canst raise thy creature to what hight thou wilt of
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  Speaker 1: union or communion? Daified I, by conversing, cannot these erect
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  Speaker 1: from prone, nor in their ways complaisance find Thus I
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  Speaker 1: emboldened spake and freedom used permissive and acceptance found, which
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  Speaker 1: gained this answer from the gracious voice divine. Thus far
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  Speaker 1: to try THEE adam, I was pleased and find THEE,
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  Speaker 1: knowing not of beasts alone, which thou hast rightly named,
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  Speaker 1: but of thyself, expressing well the spirit within THEE free
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  Speaker 1: my image not imparted to the brute, whose fellowship therefore
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  Speaker 1: unmeet for THEE. Good reason was thou freely shouldst dislike
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  Speaker 1: and be so minded? Still ay ere thou spake'st knew
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  Speaker 1: it not good for man to be alone, and no
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  Speaker 1: such company, as then thou sourced intended THEE for trial
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  Speaker 1: only brought to see how thou couldst judge of fit
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  Speaker 1: and meet. What next I bring shall please THEE. Be
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  Speaker 1: assur'd thy likeness, thy fit help thy other self thy wish,
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  Speaker 1: exactly to thy heart's desire. He ended, or I heard
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  Speaker 1: no more, for now my earthly by his heavenly overpower'd,
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  Speaker 1: which it had long stood under strained to the height
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  Speaker 1: in that celestial colloquy sublime as with an object that
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  Speaker 1: excels the sense, dazzled and spent, sunk down and sought
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  Speaker 1: repair of sleep, which instantly fell on me, call'd by
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  Speaker 1: nature as in aid, and clos'd mine eyes, mine eyes.
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  Speaker 1: He but open left the cell of fancy, my internal sight,
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  Speaker 1: by which abstract as in a trance, methought, I saw,
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  Speaker 1: though sleeping where I lay, and saw the shape still
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  Speaker 1: glorious before whom awake I stood, who, stooping, opened my
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  Speaker 1: left side, and took from thence a rib with cordial spirits,
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  Speaker 1: warm and life blood streaming fresh wide was the wound.
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  Speaker 1: But suddenly with flesh filled up and healed the rib
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  Speaker 1: he formed and fashioned with his hands. Under his forming
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  Speaker 1: hands a creature grew manlike but different sex, so lovely
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  Speaker 1: fair that what seemed fair in all the world seemed
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  Speaker 1: now mean or in her, summed up, in her contained,
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  Speaker 1: and in her looks, which from that time infused sweetness
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  Speaker 1: into my heart unfelt before, and into all things from
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  Speaker 1: her air, inspired the spirit of love and amorous delight,
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  Speaker 1: she did disappeared and left me dark. I waked to
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  Speaker 1: find her, or forever to deplore her loss and other
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  Speaker 1: pleasures all abjure. When out of hope behold her, not
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  Speaker 1: far off, such as I saw her in my dream,
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  Speaker 1: adorn'd with what all earth or heaven could bestow to
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  Speaker 1: make her amiable. On she came, led by her heavenly maker,
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  Speaker 1: though unseen and guided by his voice, nor uninformed of
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  Speaker 1: nuptial sanctity and marriage rights. Grace was in all her steps,
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  Speaker 1: Heaven in her eye, in every gesture, dignity and love.
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  Speaker 1: I overjoyed, could not forbear aloud. This turn hath made
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  Speaker 1: amends Thou, hast fulfilled thy words, Creator, bounteous and benign,
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  Speaker 1: give her of all things fair, but fairest, this of
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  Speaker 1: all thy gifts, nor enviest. I now see bone of
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  Speaker 1: my bone, flesh of my flesh, myself before me woman
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  Speaker 1: is her name of man extracted for this cause. He
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  Speaker 1: shall forego father and mother, and to his wife a dear,
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  Speaker 1: and they shall be one flesh, one heart, one's soul.
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  Speaker 1: She heard me thus and though divinely brought yet innocence
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  Speaker 1: and virgin modesty, her virtue and the conscience of her worth,
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  Speaker 1: that would be wooed and not unsought, be one not obvious,
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  Speaker 1: not obtrusive, but retired the more desirable. Or to say,
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  Speaker 1: all nature herself, though pure of sinful thought, wrought in
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  Speaker 1: her soul, that, seeing me, she turn'd, I follow'd her.
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  Speaker 1: She what was honor knew, and with obsequious majesty approv'd
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  Speaker 1: my pleaded reason to the nuptial bower. I led her,
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  Speaker 1: blushing like the morn. All heaven and happy constellations on
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  Speaker 1: that hour shed their selectest influence. The earth gave sign
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  Speaker 1: of gratulation, and each hill joyous. The birds, fresh gales
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  Speaker 1: and gentle airs whispered it. To the woods, and from
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  Speaker 1: their wings flung rose, flung odors from the spicy shrub,
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  Speaker 1: disporting till the amorous bird of night sung spousal and
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  Speaker 1: bid haste the evening star on his hilltop to light
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  Speaker 1: the bridal lamp. Thus I have told thee all my state,
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  Speaker 1: and brought my story to the sum of earthly bliss,
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  Speaker 1: which I enjoy and must confess to find in all
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  Speaker 1: things else delight indeed, but such as used or not
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: works in the mind no change nor vehement desire. These
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  Speaker 1: delicacies I mean of taste, sight, smell, herbs, fruits and flowers, walks,
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  Speaker 1: and the melody of birds. But here far otherwise transported,
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  Speaker 1: I behold transported, touch here passion. First I felt commotions
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: strange in all enjoyments else superior and unmov'd here only
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  Speaker 1: weak against the charm of beauty's powerful glance. Or nature
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  Speaker 1: failed in me and left some part not proof enough
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  Speaker 1: such object to sustain, or from my side subducting took
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  Speaker 1: perhaps more than enough, at least on her bestowed too
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  Speaker 1: much of ornament in outward show elaborate of inward, less exact.
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  Speaker 1: For while I understand in the prime end of nature
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  Speaker 1: her the inferior in the mind and inward faculties which
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  Speaker 1: most excel in outward, also her resembling less his image
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: you made both and less expressing the character of that
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: dominion given or other creatures. Yet when I approach her,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: loveliness so absolute she seems, and in herself complete, so
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  Speaker 1: well to know her own, that what she wills to
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  Speaker 1: do or say seems wisest, virtuousest discreetest best. All higher
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  Speaker 1: knowledge in her presence falls degraded. Wisdom in discourse with
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  Speaker 1: her loses discountenanced, and like folly, shows authority and reason
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  Speaker 1: on her weight as one intended first, not after, made occasionally,
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  Speaker 1: and to consume it all greatness of mind and nobleness
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  Speaker 1: their seat, build in her loveliest and create an awe
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: about her as a god angelic placed to whom the
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  Speaker 1: angel with contracted brow accused not nature, she hath done
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  Speaker 1: her part. Do thou but thine, and be not diffident
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: of wisdom. She deserts THEE, not if thou dismiss not her,
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  Speaker 1: when most thou need'st her nigh by attributing overmuch to
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  Speaker 1: things less excellent as thou thyself perceivest for what admirest thou,
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  Speaker 1: What transports THEE so and outside fear no doubt, and
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  Speaker 1: worthy well thy cherishing, thy honorring, and thy love, not
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  Speaker 1: thy subjection, weigh with her thyself then value. Oftentimes nothing
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  Speaker 1: profits more than self esteem, grounded on just and right,
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  Speaker 1: well managed of that skill. The more thou KNOW'ST, the
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  Speaker 1: more she will acknowledge THEE her head and two realities
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  Speaker 1: yield all her shows made so adorn for thy delight,
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  Speaker 1: the more so awful that with honor thou mayst love
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  Speaker 1: thy mate, who sees when thou art seen least Wise,
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  Speaker 1: But if the sense of touch, whereby mankind is propagated,
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  Speaker 1: seem such dear delight beyond all other think the same
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: vouchsafed to cattle and each beast, which would not be
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: to them made common and divulged. If aught therein enjoyed,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: were worthy to subdue the soul of man or passion
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: in him, move what higher in her society thou find'st
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: attractive human ration love. Still in loving, thou dost well
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  Speaker 1: in passion, Not wherein true love consists. Not love refines
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  Speaker 1: the thoughts and heart enlarges hath his seat in reason
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  Speaker 1: and is judicious. Is the scale by which to heavenly
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: love thou mayst ascend, not sunk in carnal pleasure, for
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  Speaker 1: which cause, among the beasts, no mate for thee was
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: found to whom thus half abashed. Adam replied, neither her
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: outside formed so fair, nor aught in procreation common to
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: all kinds. Though higher of the genial bed by far,
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: and with mysterious reverence, I deem so much delights me
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: as those graceful acts, those thousand decencies that daily flow
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: from all her words and actions, mixed with love and
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: sweet compliance, which declare unfeigned union of mind or in
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: us both one's soul, harmony to be hold in wedded pair,
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: more grateful than harmonious sound to the ear. Yet the subject,
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: not I to THEE, disclose what inward? Thence I feel
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: not therefore foiled? Who meet with various objects from the sense,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: variously representing, yet still free, approve the best and follow
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: what I approve to love, Thou blamest me, not for
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: love thou sayest leads up to heaven is both the
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: way and guide. Bear with me. Then, if lawful what
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I ask love not the heavenly spirits, and how their
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: love expressed they by looks only, or do they mix irradiance,
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: virtual or immediate touch? To whom the Angel, with a
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: smile that glowed celestial rosy red love's proper hue answered.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Let it suffice THEE that thou know'st us happy and
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: without love no happiness. Whatever pure thou in the body enjoyest,
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: and pure thou work created, we in joy in eminence.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: An obstacle, find none of membrane joint or limb. Exclusive
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: bars easier than air with air. If spirits embrace total,
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: they mix union of pure with pure, desiring nor restrain conveyance,
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  Speaker 1: need as flesh to mix with flesh, or soul with soul.
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  Speaker 1: But I can now know more the parting sun beyond
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: the Earth's green cape and verdant isles Hespirian sets my
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: signal to depart, be strong, live, happy, and love. But
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: first of all him whom to love is to obey
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: and keep his great command. Take heed lest passion sway
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: thy judgment to do aught, which else free will would
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: not admit. Thine, and of all thy sons, the weal
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: or woe in thee is placed. Beware ay in thy
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: persevering shall rejoice, and all the blessed stand asked to
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: stand or fall free in thine own arbitrament. It lies
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: perfect within, no outward aid require, and all temptation to
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: transgress repel, So saying he arose whom Adam thus followed
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: with benediction, Since to part go heavenly guest ethereal messenger
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  Speaker 1: sent from whose sovereign goodness I adore, gentle to me
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: and affable, hath been thy condescension and shall be honored
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: ever with grateful memory. Thou to mankind, be good and
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: friendly still and oft return'd. So parted they the Angel
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: up to heaven from the thick shade, and Adam to
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  Speaker 1: his bower. End of Book seven.