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Book nine, Part one, the argument Man's transgression known. The Guardian Angels
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for Sat paradise and return up to Heaven to approve their vigilance, and are
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approved. God, declaring that the entrance of Satan could not be by them
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prevented, he sends his son to judge the transgressors, who descends and give
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sentence accordingly. Then, in pity, clothes them both and reascends sin and
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death, sitting till then at the gates of Hell by wondrous sympathy, feeling
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the success of Satan in this new world and the sin by man there committed,
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resolved to sit no longer confined in Hell, but to follow Satan,
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their sire, up to the place of Man. To make the way easier
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from Hell to this world, to and fro, they pave a broad highway
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or bridge over chaos, according to the trap that Satan first made. Then,
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preparing for Earth, they meet him, proud of his success, returning
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to Hell their mutual gratulation. Satan arrives at Pandemonium in full assembly, relates
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with boasting his success against man. Instead of applause, is entertained with a
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general hiss by all his audience transformed with himself also suddenly into serpents, according
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to his doom given in paradise. Then deluded with a shower of the forbidden
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tree springing up before them, they greedily reaching to take of the fruit,
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chee dust and bitter ashes. Meanwhile, the heinous and despiteful act of Satan
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done in Paradise, and how he and the serpent had perverted Eve her husband
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she to taste the fatal fruit was known in heaven. For what can scape
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the eye of God all seeing, or deceive his heart omniscient, who,
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in all things wise and just hindered not Satan to attempt the mind of man
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with strength, in tire and free, well armed, complete to have discovered
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and repulsed whatever whiles of foe or seeming friend. For still they knew,
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and ought to have still remembered the high injunction not to taste that fruit.
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Whoever tempted, which they, not obeying incurred. What could they less the
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penalty and manifolding sin deserved to fall up into Heaven from paradise in haste a
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angelic guards ascended, mute and sad for man, for of his state.
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By this they knew, much, wondering how the subtle fiend had stolen entrance
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unseen. Soon as the unwelcome news from Earth arrived at heaven gate, Displeased
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all were who heard. Dim sadness did not spare that time. Celestial visages,
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yet mixed with pity, violated not their bliss about the new arrived in
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multitudes. The ethereal people ran to hear and know how all thefell They towards
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the throne Supreme Accountable made haste to make appear with righteous plea their utmost vigilance,
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and easily approved when the most High Eternal Father, from his secret cloud,
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amidst in thunder uttered, Thus his voice assembled angels and ye powers returned
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from unsuccessful charge. Be not dismayed nor troubled at these tidings from Earth,
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which your sincerest care could not prevent. Foretold so lately, what would come
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to pass when first this tempter crossed the gulf from Hell? I told you,
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then he should prevail and speed on his bad errand man should be seduced
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and flattered out of all believing lies against his maker. No decree of mind
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concurring to necessitate his fall or touch with the lightest moment of impulse his free
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will to her own inclining left in even scale. But fallen he is.
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And now what rests but that the mortal sentence pass on his transgression death denounced
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that day, which he presumes already vain and void, because not yet inflicted
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as he feared, by some immediate stroke, but soon shall find forbearance no
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acquittance. Ere day end. Justice shall not return as bounty scorned. But
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whom send I to judge them? Whom but thee vice regent son to THEE.
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I have transferred all judgment, whether in heaven or earth or hell.
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Easy it may be seen that I intend mercy, colleague with justice, sending
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THEE man's friend, his mediator, his design both ransom and redeemer, voluntary
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and destined man himself to judge man fallen. So spake the Father, and
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unfolding bright towards the right hand, his glory on the sun blazed forth unclouded
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deity, he full resplendent all his father manifest expressed, and thus divinely answered
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Myles, Father, eternal Thine is to decree mine, both in heaven and
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earth, to do thy will supreme, that thou in me, thy son
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belov'd, mayst ever rest well pleas'd I go to judge on earth these thy
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transgressors. But thou knowest whoever judg'd the worst on me most light, when
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time shall be for so I undertook before THEE, and not repenting this obtain
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of right, that I may mitigate their doom on me deriv'd. Yet I
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shall temper so justice with mercy as may illustrate most them fully satisfied, and
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THEE appease attendants. None shall need nor train where none are to behold the
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judgment, but the judg'd those two. The third best absent is condemn'd,
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convict by flight, and revel to all law. Conviction to the serpent none
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belongs. Thus saying, from his radiant seat, he rose of high collateral
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g golds glory him, thrones and powers, princedoms and dominations. Ministrant accompanied
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to heaven Gate. From whence Eden and all the coast in prospect lay down,
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he descended straight. The speed of God's time counts not, though with
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the swiftest minutes winged. Now was the sun in western Cadence low from noon,
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and gentle airs due at their hour to fan the earth now waked and
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usher in the evening cool. When he from wrath more cool came the mild
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judge, and intercess he both to sentence man the voice of God they heard,
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now, walking in the garden by soft winds brought to their ears while
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day declined, they heard, and from his presence hid themselves among the thickest
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trees, both man and wife, till God approaching Thus to Adam, called
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aloud, where art thou, Adam, wont with joy to meet my coming
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scene? Far off? I miss thee here not pleased, Thus entertain'd with
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solitude where obvious duty erewhile appear'd unsought, or come I less conspicuous? Or
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what change absents thee? Or what chance detains come forth? He came,
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and with him Eve more loathe, though first to offend, discountenanced both and
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discompos'd. Love was not in their looks, either to God or to each
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other, but apparent guilt and shame, and perturbation and despair, anger and
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obstinacy, and hate and guile. Whence Adam, faltering long, thus answer'd
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brief, I heard THEE in the garden, and of thy voice, afraid,
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being naked, hid myself, to whom the gracious Judge, without revile,
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replied, my voice, Thou oftest heard, and hast not fear'd,
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but still rejoic'd. How is it now become so dreadful to THEE that thou
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art naked, who hath told thee? Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof
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I gave THEE charge? Thou shouldst not eat to whom? Thus Adam sore
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Beset replied, Oh heaven, in evil strait, this day I stand before
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my judge, either to undergo myself the total crime, or to accuse my
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other self, the partner of my life, whose failing, while her faith
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to me remains, I should conceal and not exposed to blame by my complaint.
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But strict necessity subdues me, and calamitous constraint lest on my head.
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Both sin and punishment, however insupportable, be all devolved, though should I
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hold my peace, Yet thou wouldst easily detect what I conceal. This woman,
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who thou madest to be my help and gavest me as thy perfect gift,
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so good, so fit, so acceptable, so divine, that from
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her hand I could suspect no ill and what she did, whatever in itself,
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her doings seemed to justify the deed she gave me of the tree,
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and I did eat, to whom the sovereign presence thus replied, Was she
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thy God that her thou didst obey before his voice? Or was she made
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thy guide superior or but equal that to her thou didst resign thy manhood?
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And the place wherein God set thee above her made of thee, and for
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thee, whose perfection far excelled hers in all real dignity adorned. She was
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indeed and lovely to attract thy love, not thy subjection. And her gifts
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were such as under government well seem'd unseemly to bear rule, which was thy
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part and person. Hadst thou known thyself aright? So having said he thus
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to Eve, in few say, woman, what is this which thou hast
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done to whom sad Eve, with shame thigh overwhelm'd, confessing soon yet not
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before her judge? Bold or aquacious, thus abashed, replied the serpent,
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me beguiled, and I did eat, which, when the Lord God heard,
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without delay to judgment, he proceeded on the cues. Serpent, though
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brute, unable to transfer the guilt on him who made him instrument of mischief,
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and polluted from the end of his creation, justly than accursed, as
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vitiated in nature. More to know, concerned not man, since he no
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further new nor altered his offense. Yet God at last to Satan first in
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sin, his doom applied, though in mysterious terms, judged as then best,
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and on the serpent. Thus his curse let fall. Because thou hast
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done this, Thou art a cursed above all cattle, each beast of the
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field, upon thy belly groveling, thou shalt go, and dust shalt eat
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all the days of thy life. Between thee and the woman, I will
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put enmity, and between thine and her seed. Her seed shall bruise thy
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head, Thou bruise his heel. So spake this oracle then verified when Jesus,
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son of Mary second Eve, saw Satan and fall light lightning down from
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heaven. Prince of the Air, then rising from his grave, spoiled principalities
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and powers, triumphed in open show, and with ascension bright captivity led captive
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through the air, the realm itself of Satan long usurped, whom he shall
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tread at last under our feet, Even he who now foretold his fatal bruise,
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and to the woman. Thus his sentence turned, thy sorrow, I
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will greatly multiply by thy conception children, Thou shalt bring in sorrow forth,
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and to thy husband's will thine shall submit He over thee shall rule on Adam
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last. Thus judgment he pronounced, because thou hast hearkened to the voice of
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thy wife, and eaten of the tree concerning which I charge thee, saying
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thou shalt not eat thereof cursed is the ground for thy sake. Thou,
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in sorrow shalt eat thereof all the days of thy life, thorns also thistles,
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that shall bring thee forth unbid, And thou shalt eat the herb of
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the field. In the sweat of thy face. Shalt thou eat bread till
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thou return unto the ground, For thou out of the ground wast taken,
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know thy birth, for dost thou art, and shalt to dust return.
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So judged he man, both judge and savior, sent and instant stroke of
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death denounced that day removed far off, then, pitying how they stood before
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him, naked to the air, that now must suffer change, disdain not
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to begin thenceforth the form of servant to assume, as when he wash'd his
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servant's feet. So now, as father of his family, he clad their
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nakedness with skins of beasts or slain, or as the snake with youthful coat
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repaid, and thought not much to clothe his enemies, Nor he there outward
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only with the skins of beasts, but inward nakedness much more approbrious, with
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his robe of righteousness arraying covered from his father's sight to him with swift assent,
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he up returned into his blissful bosom, reassumed in glory as of old
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to him appeased, all though all knowing what had passed with man recounted,
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mixing intercession sweet. Meanwhile, ere Thus was sinned and judged on earth within
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the gates of hell, sat sin and death in counterview, within the gates
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that now stood open wide, belching outrageous flame, far into chaos, since
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the fiend passed through sin opening, who thus now to death began O son?
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Why sit we hear each other viewing idly, while Satan, our great
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author, thrives in other worlds, and happier seat provides for us His offspring
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deer it cannot be, but that success attends him. If mishap ere this,
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he had returned with fury, driven by avengure. Since no place like
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this can fit his punishment or their revenge, methinks I feel new strength within
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me, rise, wings growing, and dominion given me large. Beyond this
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deep whatever draws me on, or sympathy, or some cannatural force powerful at
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greatest distance, to unite with secret amity things of like kind by secretist conveyance,
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Thou, my shade, inseparable, must with me along for death from
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sin. No power can separate. But lest the difficulty of passing back stay
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his return perhaps over this gulf, impassable, impervious, let us try adventurous
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work yet to thy power and mind not unagreeable to found a path over this
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main from hell to that new world where Satan now prevails a monument of merit
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high to all the infernal host, easing their passage, hence for intercourse or
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transmigration, as their lot shall lead. Nor can I miss the way so
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strongly drawn by this new felt attraction and instinct, whom thus the meager shadow
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answered, soon go with a fate and inclination strong leads thee. I shall
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not lag behind, nor e'er the way Thou leading such as scent I draw
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of carnage, pray innumerable, and taste the savor of death from all things
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there that live. Nor shall I to the work thou enterprisest be wanting,
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but afford thee equal aid. So saying with delight, he snuffed the smell
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of mortal change on earth, as when a flock of ravenous fowl, though
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many a league remote, against the day of battle, to a field where
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armies lye encamped, come flying, lured with scent of living carcasses designed for
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death. The following day in bloody fight, so scented the grim feature and
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upturned his nostril wide into the murky air, sagacious of his quarry from so
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far. Then both from out hell gates into the waste wide anarchy of chaos,
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damp and dark, flew divers, and with power. Their power was
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great. Hovering upon the waters, what they met solid or slimy, as
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in a raging sea, tossed up and down together, crowded drove from each
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side, shoaling towards the mouth of Hell, as when to polar winds blowing
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adverse upon the Cronian Sea, together drive mountains of ice that stopped the imagined
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way beyond Petsaura, eastward to the rich Cathayan coast. The aggregated soil Death
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with his mace patrific, cold and dry as with a trident smote, and
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fixed as firm as de loss, floating once the rest his look bound with
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Gorgonian rigor not to move, and with asphaltic slime, broad as the gate
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deep to the roots of Hell. The gathered beach they fastened, and the
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mole immense wrought on over the foaming deep high arched a bridge of length prodigious,
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joining to the wall immovable of this now fence this world forfeit to death.
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From hence a passage broad, smooth, easy, inoffensive, down to
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Hell. So if great things to small may be compared, Xerxes, the
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liberty of Greece to yoke from Susa, his Memnonian palet high, came to
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the sea and over hellispont bridging his way Europe with Asia joined and scourged with
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many a stroke th indignant waves. Now had they brought the work by wondrous
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art pontifical, a ridge of pendent rock over the vext abyss, following the
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track of Satan to the self same place where he first lighted from his wing
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and landed safe from out of chaos, to the outside bear of this round
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world. With pins of adamant and chains they made all fast, too fast
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they made and durable. And now in little space the confines met of imperi
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in heaven and of this world. And on the left hand Hell, with
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long reach interposed three several ways in sight to each of these three places led
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and now their way to Earth. They had descried to Paradise, first tending
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when behold Satan, in likeness of an angel, bright betwixt the centaur and
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the scorpions, steering his zenith, while the sun in aries rose. Disguised
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he came, but those his children deer. Their parents soon discerned. Though
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in disguise he after Eve seduced unminded, slunk into the wood, fast by
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and changing shape to observe the sequel, saw his guileful act by Eve,
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though all unweting seconded upon her husband saw their shame that sought vain covertures.
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But when he saw descend the son of God to judge them, terrified,
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he fled, not hoping to escape, but shunned the present, fearing guilty
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what his wrath might suddenly inflict that past. Returned by night and listening where
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the hapless pair sat in their sad discourse and various plaint thence gathered his own
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doom, which understood not instant but of future time. With joy and tidings
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fraught to hell. He now returned, and at the brink of chaos,
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near the foot of this new wondrous pontifice, unhoped met who to meet him
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came his offspring Deer. Great joy was at their meeting, and at sight
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of that stupendous bridge, his joy increased. Long he and biring stood till
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Sin his fair enchanting daughter. Thus the silence broke, O parent, These
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are thy magnific deeds, thy trophies, which thou view'st as not thine own.
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Thou art their author and prime architect. For I no sooner in my
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heart divined my heart, which by a secret harmony still moves with Thine,
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joined in connection suite that Thou on Earth hadst prospered, which thy looks now
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also evidence but straight I felt, though distant from thee worlds between, yet
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felt that I must after THEE with this thy son, such fatal consequence unites
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us three. Hell could no longer hold us in her bounds, nor this
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unvoyageable gulf obscure detained from following thy illustrious track. Thou hast achieved our liberty
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confined within hell gates, till now thou ust empowered to fortify thus far and
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overlay with this portentous bridge the dark abyss Thye now is all this world.
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Thy virtue hath won what thy hands builded, not thy wisdom gained with odds
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what war hath lost, and fully avenged our foil in heavin. Here thou
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shalt monarch reign there didst not there let him still victor sway as battle.
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Hath adjudged from this new world, retiring by his own doom, alienated,
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and henceforth monarchy, with THEE divide of all things parted by them perial bounds,
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his quadrature from thy orbicular world. Or try THEE now more dangerous to
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his throne, whom thus the Prince of Darkness answered, glad fair daughter and
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thou son and grandchild, both high proof, Ye now have given to be
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the race of Satan. For I glory in the name antagonist of Heaven's al
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mighty king. Amply have merited of me of all the infernal empire that so
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near Heaven's door, triumphal with triumphal act of met mine with this glorious work,
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and made one realm Hell, and this world one realm, one continent
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of easy thoroughfare. Therefore, while I descend through darkness on your road with
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ease to my associate, powers them to acquaint with these successes, and with
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them rejoice you too. This way among those numerous orbs, all yours right
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down to Paradise, descend there, dwell and reigning bliss. Thence on the
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earth dominion exercise, and in the air, chiefly on man sole Lord,
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have all declared him. First, make sure your thrall, and lastly kill
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my substitutes I send you, and create plenty potent on earth of matchless might,
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issuing from me on your joint vigor. Now my hold of this new
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kingdom all depends through sin to death exposed by my exploit. If your joint
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power prevail the fares of hell, no detriment need fear, go and be
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strong. So, saying he dismissed them, they with speed their course through
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thickest constellations, held spreading their bane. The blastest star looked wan and planet's
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planets struck real eclipsed, then suffered. The other way, Satan went down
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the causeway to hell Gate. On either side disparted, chaos overbuilt, exclaimed,
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and with rebounding surge, the bars assailed that scorned his indignation. Through
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the gate, wide open and unguarded, Satan passed and with all about found
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desolate, for those appointed to sit there had left their charge flown to the
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upper world. The rest were all far to the inland, retired about the
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walls of Pandemonium City and proud seat of Lucifer. So by illusion called of
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that bright star to Satan. Paragond there kept their watch the legions, while
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the Grand in Council sat solicitous. What chance might intercept their emperor sent so
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he departing, gave command, and they observed as when the Tartar from his
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Russian foe by Astra, Khan of the Snowy Plains retires, or Bactrin Sophie
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from the horns of Turkish crescent leaves all waste beyond the realm of Aladl In
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his retreat to Taris or cas been so these the late heaven banished host left
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desert utmost hell, many a dark league, reduced in careful watch round their
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metropolis, and now expecting each hour their great adventurer from the search of foreign
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worlds. He through the midst un marked in show Plebeian angel, militant of
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lowest order passed, and from the door of that Plutonian hall invisible ascended his
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high throne, which, under state of richest texture spread at upper end,
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was placed in regal luster. Down a while he sat and round about him
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sore, unseen. At last, as from a cloud, his fulgent head
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and shaped starbright appeared or brighter, clad with what permissive glory since his fall
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was left him or false glit all amazed at that so sudden blaze. The
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Stygian throng bent their aspect, and whom they wished beheld their mighty chief,
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returned. Loud was the claim. Forth rushed in haste the great consulting peers
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raised from their dark divan, and with like joy congratulant approached him, who,
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with hand silence and with these words attention one thrones, dominations, princedoms,
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virtues, powers for in possession such not only of right, I call
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ye and declare ye now returned, successful beyond hope, to lead ye forth
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triumphant, out of this infernal pit, abominable, accursed, the house of
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woe and dungeon of our tyrant, now possess as lords a spacious world to
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our native heaven, little inferior by my adventure, hard with peril grate achieved.
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Long were to tell what I have done, what suffered, with what
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pain? Voyage unris vast, unbounded, deep of horrible confusion, over which
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by sin and death a broad way now is paved to expedite your glorious march.
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But I toiled out my uncouth passage, forced to ride the untractable abyss,
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plunged in the womb of unoriginal Knight and chaos wild, that, jealous
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of their secrets, fiercely opposed my journey, strange with clamorous uproar, protesting
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fate supreme. Thence how I found the new created world, which fame in
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Heaven long had foretold, a fabric wonderful of absolute perfection. Therein man placed
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in a paradise by our exile, made happy him by fraud, I have
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seduced from his creator, and the more to increase your wonder with an apple
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he thereat offended worth your laughter. Hath given up both his beloved man and
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all his world to sin and death, a prey, and so to us,
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without our hazard labor or alae arm, to range in and to dwell
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an over man, to rule as over all he should have ruled. True
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is me also he hath judged, or rather mean not but the brute serpent,
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in whose shape man I have deceived, that which to me belongs his
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enmity, which he will put between me and mankind. I am to bruise
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his heel, his seed, when is not set, shall bruise my head
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a world who would not purchase with a bruise or much more grievous pain.
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Ye have the count of my performance. What remains, ye gods? But
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up and enter now into full bliss. So having said a while, he
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stood, expecting their universal shout and high applause to fill his ear. When
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contrary, he hears, on all sides, from innumerable tongues, a dismal,
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universal hiss, the sound of public scorn. He wondered, but not
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long had leisure, wondering at himself now more, his visit drawn, he
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felt to sharpened spare. His arms clung to his ribs, his legs entwining
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each other, till supplanted down he fell a monstrous serpent on his belly,
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Prone, reluctant, but in vain. A greater power now ruled him,
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punished in the shapey sind according to his doom, he would have spoke,
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but hiss, for hiss returned with forked tongue to forked tongue, For now
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were all transformed alike to serpents, all as accessories to his bold riot.
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Dreadful was the din of hissing through the hall, thick swarming now with complicated
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monsters, head and tail, scorpion and asp and amphis beIN a dyre kerastes
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horn, hydrus and Ilop's drea and dipsus. Not so thick swarmed once the
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soil be dropped with blood of Gorgon or the isle off Usa. But still
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greatest teeth the midst now dragon, grown larger than whom the sun engendered in
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the Pythian veil on slime, huge python, and his power no less,
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he seemed above the rest, still to retain they all him followed, issuing
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forth to the open field, where all yet left of that revolted route heaven
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fallen in station, stood or just array, sublime with expectation. When to
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see in triumph, issuing forth their glorious chief, they saw but other sight
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instead, a crowd of ugly serpents. Horror on them fell, and horrid
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sympathy for what they saw they felt themselves now changing down their arms down,
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fell both spear and shield down they as fast, and the dire hiss renewed,
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and the dire form caught by contagion, like in punishment, as in
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their crime. Thus was the plause they meant, turned to exploding hiss,
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triumph to shame cast on them cells from their own mouths. There stood a
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grove hard by sprung up with this their change his will, who reigns above
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to aggravate their penance, laden with fair fruit like that which grew in paradise,
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the bait of eve used by the tempter on that prospect. Strange Their
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earnest eyes they fixed, imagining for one forbidden tree, and multitude now risen
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to work them further woe or shame, yet parched with scolding, thirst and
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hunger fierce though to delude them, scent could not abstain. But on they
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rolled in heaps and up the trees, climbing sat thicker than the snaky locks
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that curled Megeira. Greedily they plucked the fruitage fair to sight, like that
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which grew near that bituminous lake where sodom flamed. This more delusive, not
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the touch, but taste. Deceived, they fondly, thinking to allay their
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appetite with gust. Instead of fruit, chewed bitter ashes, which the fended
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taste with spattering noise rejected off they essayed hunger and thirst, constraining, drugged
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as oft with hatefullest disrelish, writhed their jaws with soot and cinders filled so
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off they fell into the same illusion, not as man, whom they triumphed
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once lapsed. Thus were they plagued and worn with famine, long and ceaseless
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hiss, till their lost shape permitted they resumed yearly, enjoyed, some say
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to undergo this annual humbling certain numbered days, to dash their pride and joy
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for man seduced. However, some tradition they dispersed among the heathen of their
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purchase, got and fabled how the serpent, whom they called Offion. With
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the uryinumy, the wide encroaching eve perhaps had first the rule of High Olympus,
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thence by satin driven and ops Ere. Yet dic Tee and Jove was
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born. End of part one of book nine