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19 - Paradise Lost - John Milton · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Book two, Part one, High on a throne of royal state,
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  Speaker 1: which far outshone the wealth of Ormus and of innd Or,
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  Speaker 1: where the gorgeous east, with richest hand showers on her
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  Speaker 1: king's barbaric pearl and gold. Satan exalted sat by merit
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  Speaker 1: raised to that bad eminence, and from despair thus high
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  Speaker 1: uplifted beyond hope, aspires beyond. Thus high insatiate to pursue
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  Speaker 1: vain war with Heaven, and by success untaught his proud
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  Speaker 1: imaginations thus displayed powers and dominions deities of Heaven. For
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  Speaker 1: since no deep within her gulf can hold immortal vigor.
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  Speaker 1: Though oppressed and fallen, I give not Heaven for loss.
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  Speaker 1: From this descent, celestial virtues rising will appear more glorious
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  Speaker 1: and more dread than from no fall. And trust themselves
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  Speaker 1: to fear no second fate. Me though just right and
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  Speaker 1: the fixed laws of Heaven did first create your leader
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  Speaker 1: next free choice with what besides in counsel or in fight,
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  Speaker 1: hath been achieved of merit. Yet this lass thus far
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  Speaker 1: at least recovered, hath much more established in a safe,
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  Speaker 1: unenvied throne, yielded with full consent. The happier state in
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  Speaker 1: heaven which follows dignity might draw envy from each inferior.
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  Speaker 1: But who here will envy whom the highest place exposes
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  Speaker 1: foremost to stand against the thunderers, aim your bulwark and
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  Speaker 1: condemns to greatest share of endless pain. Where there is
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  Speaker 1: then no good from which to strive. No strife can
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  Speaker 1: grow up there from faction, For none sure will claim
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  Speaker 1: in hell precedence, None whose portion is so small of
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  Speaker 1: present pain, that, with ambitious mind will covet more with
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  Speaker 1: this advantage than to union and firm faith and firm accord,
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  Speaker 1: more than can be in heaven. We now return to
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  Speaker 1: claim our just inheritance of old surer to prosper than
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  Speaker 1: prosperity could have assured us. And by what best, whether
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  Speaker 1: of open war or covert guile, We now debate who
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  Speaker 1: can advise? May speak? He ceased, and next him, Moloch,
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  Speaker 1: sceptred King, stood up the strongest and the fiercest spirit
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  Speaker 1: that fought in heaven, now fiercer by despair. His trust
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  Speaker 1: was with the eternal to be deemed equal in strength,
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  Speaker 1: And rather than be less, cared not to be at all.
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  Speaker 1: With that care lost went all his fear of God.
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  Speaker 1: Or hell or worse he recked not, and these words
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  Speaker 1: thereafter spake My sentence is for open war of wiles.
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  Speaker 1: More an expert I boast not than let those contrive
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  Speaker 1: who need, or when they need not now, For while
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  Speaker 1: they sit contriving, shall the rest millions that stand in
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  Speaker 1: arms and longing wait the signal to ascend, sit lingering
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  Speaker 1: here Heaven's fugitives, and for their dwelling place except this dark,
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  Speaker 1: opprobrious den of shame, the prison of his tyranny, who,
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  Speaker 1: by our delay no let us rather choose, armed with hell,
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  Speaker 1: flames and fury, all at once o'er Heaven's high towers
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  Speaker 1: to force resistless way, turning our tortures into horrid arms
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  Speaker 1: against the torturer. When to meet the noise of his
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  Speaker 1: almighty engine, he shall hear infernal thunder, and for lightning
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  Speaker 1: see black fire and horror shot with equal rage among
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  Speaker 1: his angels, and his throne itself, mixed with tartarian sulfur
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  Speaker 1: and strange fire, his own invented torments. But perhaps the
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  Speaker 1: way seems difficult and steep to scale with upright wing
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  Speaker 1: against a higher foe. Let such bethink them. If the
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  Speaker 1: sleepy drench of that forgetful lake be numb, not still
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  Speaker 1: that in our proper motion we ascend up to our
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  Speaker 1: native seat. Descent and fall to us is adverse. Who
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  Speaker 1: but felt of late when the fierce foe hung on
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  Speaker 1: our broken rear, insulting and pursued us through the deep
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  Speaker 1: with what compulsion and laborious flight we sunk? Thus slow
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  Speaker 1: the ascent is easy, Then the event is feared. Should
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  Speaker 1: we again provoke our stronger some worse way his wrath
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  Speaker 1: may find to our destruction? If there be in hell
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  Speaker 1: fear to be worse destroyed? What can be worse than
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  Speaker 1: to dwell here, driven out from bliss, condemned in this
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  Speaker 1: abhorred deep to utter woe, where pain of unextinguishable fire
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  Speaker 1: must exercise us without hope of end the vassals of
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  Speaker 1: his anger. When the scourge inexorably and the torturing hour
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  Speaker 1: calls us to penance, more destroyed than thus we should
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  Speaker 1: be quite abolished and expire. What fear we then? What
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  Speaker 1: doubt we to incense his utmost ire, which, to the
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  Speaker 1: height enraged, will either quite consume us and reduce to nothing.
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  Speaker 1: This essential happier far than miserable, to have eternal being
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  Speaker 1: or if our substance be indeed divine and cannot cease
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  Speaker 1: to be, we are at worst on this side nothing,
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  Speaker 1: and by proof we feel our power sufficient to disturb
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  Speaker 1: his heaven, and with perpetual inroads to alarm, though inaccessible
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  Speaker 1: his fatal throne, which, if not victory, is yet revenge.
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  Speaker 1: He ended frowning, and his look denounced desperate revenge and
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  Speaker 1: battle dangerous to less than God's. On the other side
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  Speaker 1: rose Bellio, in act more graceful and humane, A fairer
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  Speaker 1: person lost not heaven. He seemed for dignity, composed and
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  Speaker 1: high exploit, but all was false and hollow, though his
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  Speaker 1: tongue dropped manna and could make the worse appear the
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  Speaker 1: better reason to perplex and dash maturest counsels for his
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  Speaker 1: thoughts were low to vites industrious, but to nobler deeds
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  Speaker 1: timorous and slothful. Yet he pleased the ear, and with
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  Speaker 1: persuasive accent, thus began I should be much for open war,
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  Speaker 1: or peers as not behind in hate. If what was
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  Speaker 1: urged main reason to persuade immediate war did not dissuade
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  Speaker 1: me most and seemed to cast ominous conjecture on the
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  Speaker 1: whole success when he who most excels in fact of arms,
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  Speaker 1: in what he counsels, and what excels mistrustful, grounds his
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  Speaker 1: courage on despair and utter dissolution as the scope of
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  Speaker 1: all his aim after some dire revenge. First, what revenge?
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  Speaker 1: The towers of heaven are filled with armed watch that
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  Speaker 1: render all access impregnable. Oft on the bordering, deep in
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  Speaker 1: camp their legions, or with obscure wings scout far and
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  Speaker 1: wide into the realm of night, scorning surprise. Or could
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  Speaker 1: we break our way by force and at our heels
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  Speaker 1: all hell should rise with blackest insurrection to confound Heaven's
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  Speaker 1: purest light. Yet our great enemy, all incorruptible, would on
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  Speaker 1: his throne sit unpolluted, and the ethereal mold, incapable of stain,
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  Speaker 1: would soon expel her mischief and purge off the baser fire.
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  Speaker 1: Victorious thus repulsed, our final hope is flat despair. We
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  Speaker 1: must exasperate the almighty victor to spend all his rage,
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  Speaker 1: and that must end us. That must be our cure,
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  Speaker 1: to be no more sad cure, For who would lose?
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  Speaker 1: Though full of pain, this intellectual being, those thoughts that
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  Speaker 1: wander through eternity to perish, rather swallowed up and lost
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  Speaker 1: in the wide womb of uncreated knight, devoid of sense
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  Speaker 1: and motion. And who knows? Let this be good, whether
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  Speaker 1: our angry foe can give it or will ever how
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  Speaker 1: he can, is doubtful that he never will, is sure?
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  Speaker 1: Will he so wise let loose at once his ire
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  Speaker 1: be like through impotence or unaware, to give his enemies
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  Speaker 1: their wish and end them in his anger, whom his
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  Speaker 1: anger saves to punish endless. Wherefore cease, we then, say,
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  Speaker 1: they who counsel war, We are decreed, reserved, and destined
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  Speaker 1: to eternal woe, whatever doing, What can we suffer more?
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  Speaker 1: What can suffer worse? Is this then worst? Thus sitting
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  Speaker 1: thus consulting, thus in arms. What when we fled a main,
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  Speaker 1: pursued and strick with Heaven's afflicting thunder, and besought the
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  Speaker 1: deep to shelter us this hell then seemed a refuge
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  Speaker 1: from those wounds, Or when we lay chained on the
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  Speaker 1: burning lake, that shore was worse. What if the breath
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  Speaker 1: that kindled those grim fires awaked should blow them into
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  Speaker 1: sevenfold rage and plunge us into flames, or from above
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  Speaker 1: should intermitted vengeance, arm again his red right hand to
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  Speaker 1: plague us. What if all her stores were opened, and
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  Speaker 1: this firmament of Hell should spout her cataracts of fire,
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  Speaker 1: impendent horrors, threatening hideous fall one day upon our heads,
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  Speaker 1: while we, perhaps designing or exhorting glorious war, caught in
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  Speaker 1: a fiery tempest, shall be hurled each on his rock,
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  Speaker 1: transfixed the sport and prey of racking whirlwinds, or forever
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  Speaker 1: sunk under yon boiling ocean, wrapped in chains, there to
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  Speaker 1: converse with everlasting groans, unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved ages of hopeless end.
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  Speaker 1: This would be worse war. Therefore open or concealed alike,
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  Speaker 1: My voice dissuades, for what can force or guile with him?
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  Speaker 1: Or who deceived leave his mind? Whose eye views all
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  Speaker 1: things at one view he from Heaven's height, All these
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  Speaker 1: our motions vain sees and derides not more almighty to
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  Speaker 1: resist our might than wise to frustrate all our plots
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  Speaker 1: and wiles. Shall we then live thus vile the race
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  Speaker 1: of Heaven, thus trampled, thus expelled to suffer here chains
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  Speaker 1: in these torments, better these than worse, by my advice,
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  Speaker 1: Since fate inevitable, subdues us and omnipotent decree the victor's
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  Speaker 1: will to suffer as to do our strength is equal,
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  Speaker 1: nor the law unjust that so ordains. This was at
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  Speaker 1: first resolved. If we were wise against so great a
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  Speaker 1: foe contending, and so doubtful, what might fall? I laugh
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  Speaker 1: when those who at the spear are bold and venturous.
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  Speaker 1: If that fail them shrink and fear what they yet
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  Speaker 1: know must follow, to endure exile or ignominy, or bonds
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  Speaker 1: or pain, the sentence of their conqueror. This is now
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  Speaker 1: our doom, which, if we can sustain and bear our
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  Speaker 1: supreme foe, in time may admit his anger, and perhaps
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  Speaker 1: thus far removed, not mind us, not offending, satisfied with
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  Speaker 1: what is punished. Whence these raging fires will slacken, if
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  Speaker 1: his breath stir not their flames. Our purer essence then
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  Speaker 1: will overcome their noxious vapor or inured, not feel or changed.
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  Speaker 1: At length, and to the plates conformed in temper and
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  Speaker 1: in nature will receive familiar the fierce heat and void
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  Speaker 1: of pain. This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.
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  Speaker 1: Besides what hope the never ending flight of future days
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  Speaker 1: may bring, what chance? What change worth waiting? Since our
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  Speaker 1: present lot appears for happy, though but ill, for ill,
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  Speaker 1: not worst, if we procure not to ourselves more woe.
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  Speaker 1: Thus belial with words cloaked in reason's garb, counseled ignoble,
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  Speaker 1: ease and peaceful sloth, not peace and after him, Thus
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  Speaker 1: Mammon spoke either to disenthrone the King of Heaven we
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  Speaker 1: war if Warrid's best, or to regain our own right
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  Speaker 1: lost him too unthrone. We then may hope when everlasting
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  Speaker 1: fate shall yield to fickle chance and chaos. Judge the strife,
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  Speaker 1: The former vain to hope, argues as vain the latter,
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  Speaker 1: For what place can be for us within Heaven's bound
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  Speaker 1: Unless Heaven's Lord supreme we overpower. Suppose he should relent
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  Speaker 1: and publish grace to all, on promise made of new subjection.
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  Speaker 1: With what eyes? Could we stand in his presence? Humble
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  Speaker 1: and receive strict laws imposed to celebrate his throne with
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  Speaker 1: warbaled hymns and to his godhead sing forced hollelujahs, whilst
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  Speaker 1: he lordly sits our envied sovereign and his altar breaths
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  Speaker 1: ambrosial odors and ambrosial flowers, our servile offerings. This must
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  Speaker 1: be our task in heaven, this our delight. How wearisome
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  Speaker 1: eternity spent so in worship, paid to whom we hate.
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  Speaker 1: Let us not then pursue by force impossible, by leave
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  Speaker 1: obtained unacceptable though in heaven our state of splendid vassalage.
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  Speaker 1: But rather seek our own good from ourselves and from
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  Speaker 1: our own live to ourselves, though in this vast recess,
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  Speaker 1: free and to none accountable, preferring hard liberty before the
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  Speaker 1: easy yoke of servile pomp. Our greatness will appear, then
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  Speaker 1: most conspicuous, when great things of small, useful of hurtful,
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  Speaker 1: prosperous of adverse, we can create. And in what place
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  Speaker 1: soe'er thrive under evil and work ease out of pain
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  Speaker 1: through labor and endurance. This deep world of darkness do
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  Speaker 1: we dread? How oft amidst thick clouds and dark doth
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  Speaker 1: Heaven's all ruling sire choose to reside his glory unobscured,
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  Speaker 1: and with the majesty of darkness round covers his throne.
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  Speaker 1: From whence deep thunders roar, mustering their rage, and Heaven
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  Speaker 1: resembles hell, as he our darkness, cannot we his light
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  Speaker 1: imitate when we please. This desert soil wants not her
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  Speaker 1: hidden luster gems and gold, nor want we skill or
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  Speaker 1: art from whence to raise magnificence, And what can Heaven
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  Speaker 1: show more? Our torments also may, in length of time,
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  Speaker 1: become our elements. These piercing fires, as soft as now severe.
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  Speaker 1: Our temper changed into their temper, which must needs remove
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  Speaker 1: the sensible of pain. All things invite to peaceful counsels
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  Speaker 1: and the settled state of order. How in safety best
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  Speaker 1: we may compose our present evils, with regard of what
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  Speaker 1: we are and where, dismissing quite all thoughts of war,
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  Speaker 1: ye have what I advise He had scarce finished when
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  Speaker 1: such murmur filled the assembly, as when hollow rocks retain
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  Speaker 1: the sound of blustering winds which all night long had
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  Speaker 1: roused the sea now with horse cadence, lull seafaring men,
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  Speaker 1: or watched whose bark by chance, or pinnace anchors in
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  Speaker 1: a craggy bay. After the tempest. Such applause was heard,
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  Speaker 1: as Mammon ended, and his sentence pleased, advising peace for
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  Speaker 1: such another field they dreaded worse than hell, so much
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  Speaker 1: the fear of thunder and the sword of Michael wrought
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  Speaker 1: still within them, and no less desire to found this
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  Speaker 1: nether empire, which might raise by policy and long process
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  Speaker 1: of time, in emulation, opposite to Heaven, which, when beels
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  Speaker 1: above perceived, then whom Satan accept none higher, sat with
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  Speaker 1: grave aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed a
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  Speaker 1: pillar of state. Deep on his front engraven deliberations, sat,
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  Speaker 1: and public care and princely counsel in his face yet
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  Speaker 1: shone majestic, Though in ruin sage he stood with atlanteans
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  Speaker 1: shoulders fit to bear the weight of mightiest monarchies. His
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  Speaker 1: look drew audience and attentions still as night or summer's
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  Speaker 1: noontide air. While thus he spake thrones and imperial powers,
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  Speaker 1: offspring of Heaven ethereal virtues, or these titles now must
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  Speaker 1: we renounce and changing still be called princes of Hell.
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  Speaker 1: For so the popular vote inclines here to continue and
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  Speaker 1: build up here a growing empire. Doubtless, while we dream
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  Speaker 1: and know noth but that the King of Heaven hath
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  Speaker 1: doomed this place our dungeon, not our safe retreat, beyond
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  Speaker 1: his potent arm to live, exempt from Heaven's high jurisdiction
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  Speaker 1: in new league, banded against his throne, but to remain
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  Speaker 1: in strictest bondage, though thus far removed under the inevitable curb,
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  Speaker 1: reserved his captive multitude. For he be sure in height
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  Speaker 1: or depth, still first and last will reign sole king
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  Speaker 1: and of his kingdom. Lose no part by our revolt,
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  Speaker 1: but over Hell extend his empire, and with iron scepter
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  Speaker 1: rule us here as with his golden those in Heaven.
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  Speaker 1: What sit we then, projecting peace and war? War hath
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  Speaker 1: determined us and foiled with loss irreparable terms of peace,
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  Speaker 1: yet none vouchsafed or sought for. What peace will be
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  Speaker 1: given to us enslaved but custody severe and stripes and
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  Speaker 1: arbitrary punishment inflicted. And what peace can we return but
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  Speaker 1: to our power, hostility, and hate, untamed, reluctance, and revenge.
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  Speaker 1: Though slow yet ever plotting how the conqueror least may
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  Speaker 1: reap his conquest, and may least rejoice in doing what
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  Speaker 1: we most in suffering feel. Nor will occasion want, nor
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  Speaker 1: shall we need with dangerous expedition to invade Heaven, whose
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  Speaker 1: high walls fear no assault or siege or ambush from
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  Speaker 1: the deep. What if we find some easier enterprise. There
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  Speaker 1: is a place, if ancient and prophetic fame in heaven,
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  Speaker 1: err not another world, the happy seat of some new
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  Speaker 1: race called man, about this time, to be created like
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  Speaker 1: to us, though less in power and excellence, but favored
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  Speaker 1: more of him who rolls above. So was his will
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  Speaker 1: pronounced among the gods, and by an oath that shook
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  Speaker 1: Heaven's whole circumference confirmed. Thither, let us bend all our
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  Speaker 1: thoughts to learn what creatures there inhabit of, what mold
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  Speaker 1: or substance, how endued, and what their power, and where
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  Speaker 1: their weakness, how attempted best by force or subtlety. Though
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  Speaker 1: Heaven be shut, and Heaven's high arbitrators it secure in
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  Speaker 1: his own strength. This way, as may lie exposed the
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  Speaker 1: utmost border of his kingdom, left to their defense, who
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  Speaker 1: can hold it? Here? Perhaps some advantageous act may be
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  Speaker 1: achieved by sudden onset, either with hell fire to waste
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  Speaker 1: his whole creation, or possess as all our own, and
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  Speaker 1: drive as we were driven the puny inhabitants, or, if
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  Speaker 1: not drive, seduce them to our party, that their God
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  Speaker 1: may prove their foe, and with repenting hand abolish his
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  Speaker 1: own works. This would surpass common revenge and interrupt his
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  Speaker 1: joy in our confusion, and our joy uprays in his disturbance.
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  Speaker 1: When his darling sons hurled headlong to partake with us,
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  Speaker 1: shall curse their frail originals and fated bliss faded. So
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  Speaker 1: soon advise if this be worth attempting, or to sit
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  Speaker 1: in darkness here hatching vain empires. Thus beels above pleaded
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  Speaker 1: his devilish council, first devised by Satan, and in part
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  Speaker 1: proposed for whence but from the author of all ill
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  Speaker 1: could spring so deep a malice to confound the race
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  Speaker 1: of mankind in one root and earth, withhell to mingle
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  Speaker 1: and involve done all to spite the great creator. But
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  Speaker 1: their spite still serves his glory to augment The bold
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  Speaker 1: design pleased highly those infernal states, and joy sparkled in
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  Speaker 1: all their eyes. With full assent. They vote whereat his speech.
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  Speaker 1: He thus renews, well have you judged and well ended?
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  Speaker 1: Long debate sign not of gods, and like to what
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  Speaker 1: you are, great things resolved, which from the lowest deep
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  Speaker 1: will once more lift us up in spite of fate.
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  Speaker 1: Nearer our ancient seat, perhaps in view of those bright confines. Whence,
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  Speaker 1: with neighboring arms and opportune excursion, we may chance re
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  Speaker 1: enter Heaven, or else in some mild zone, dwell not
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  Speaker 1: unvisited of Heaven's fair light. Secure, and at the brightening
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  Speaker 1: orient beam, purge off this gloom. The soft, delicious air
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  Speaker 1: to heal the scar of these corrosive fires, shall breathe
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  Speaker 1: her balm. But first, whom shall we send in search
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  Speaker 1: of this new world? Whom shall we find sufficient? Who
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  Speaker 1: shall tempt with wandering feet the dark, unbottomed, infinite abyss,
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  Speaker 1: and through the palpable obscure, find out his uncouth way,
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  Speaker 1: or spread his airy flight upborne with indefatigable wings over
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  Speaker 1: the vast, abrupt ere he arrived the happy isle. What strength,
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  Speaker 1: what art can then suffice? Or what evasion bear him safe?
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  Speaker 1: Through the strict sentries and stations thick of angels watching
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  Speaker 1: round here? He had need all circumspection, And we now
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  Speaker 1: no less choice in our suffrage. For on whom we
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  Speaker 1: send the weight of all and our last hope relies.
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  Speaker 1: This said he sat, and expectation held his look suspense,
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  Speaker 1: a waiting who appeared to second or oppose, or undertake
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  Speaker 1: the perilous attempt. But all sat mute, pondering the danger
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  Speaker 1: with deep thoughts, and each in other's countenance read his
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  Speaker 1: own dismay, astonished, None among the choice and prime of
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  Speaker 1: those heaven warring champions could be found so heardy as
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  Speaker 1: to proffer or accept alone the dreadful voyage, Till at
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  Speaker 1: last say whom now transcendent glory, raised above his fellows
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  Speaker 1: with monarchical pride, conscious of highest worth. Unmoved, thus spake
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  Speaker 1: o progeny of heaven, Imperial thrones, with reason have silence
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  Speaker 1: and demure seized us, though undismayed, long as the way
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  Speaker 1: and hard that out of hell leads up to light
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  Speaker 1: our prisons strong, This huge convex of fire, outrageous to devour,
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  Speaker 1: immures us round ninefold, and gates of burning adamant barred
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  Speaker 1: over us, prohibit all egress these past. If any pass
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  Speaker 1: the void profound of unessential night, receive him next wide gaping,
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  Speaker 1: and with utter loss of being, threatens him plunged in
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  Speaker 1: that abortive gulf. If thence escape into whatever world of
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  Speaker 1: unknown region what remains him less than unknown dangers and
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  Speaker 1: as hard escape. But I should ill become, this throne appears,
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  Speaker 1: and this imperial sovereignty, adorned with splendor, armed with power,
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  Speaker 1: if aught, proposed and judged of public moment in the
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  Speaker 1: shape of difficulty or danger, could deter me from attempting.
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  Speaker 1: Wherefore do I assume these royalties and not refuse to reign,
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  Speaker 1: refusing to accept as great a share of hazard as
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  Speaker 1: of honor, do you alike to him who reigns, and
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  Speaker 1: so much to him, do of hazard more as he
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  Speaker 1: above the rest high honored sits go Therefore, mighty powers,
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  Speaker 1: terror of heaven, though fallen, intend at home, while here
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  Speaker 1: shall be our home. What best may ease the present
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  Speaker 1: misery and render hell more tolerable? If there be cure
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  Speaker 1: or charm to respite, or deceive or slack the pain
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  Speaker 1: of this ill mansion. Intermit no watch against a wakeful foe,
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  Speaker 1: while I abroad, through all the coasts of dark destruction,
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  Speaker 1: seek deliverance for us all this enterprise. None shall partake
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  Speaker 1: with me. Thus saying the monarch, and prevented all reply
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  Speaker 1: prudent lest from his resolution raised others among the chief
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  Speaker 1: might offer now certain to be refused, what erst they feared,
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  Speaker 1: and so refused, might, in opinion, stand his rivals winning
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  Speaker 1: cheap the high repute which he, through hazard huge, must earn.
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  Speaker 1: But they dreaded not more the adventure than his voice forbidding.
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  Speaker 1: And at once with him they rose. Their rising all
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  Speaker 1: at once was as the sound of thunder heard remote
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  Speaker 1: towards him. They bend with awful reverence, prone, and as
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  Speaker 1: a god, extol him equal to the highest in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Nor failed they to express how much they praised that
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  Speaker 1: for the general safety he despised his own. For neither
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  Speaker 1: do the spirits damned lose all their virtue, lest bad
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  Speaker 1: men should boast their specious deeds on earth, which glory excites,
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  Speaker 1: or close ambition varnished, or with zeal. Thus they their
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  Speaker 1: doubtful consultations dark ended, rejoicing in their matchless chief, as
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  Speaker 1: when from mountain tops the dusky clouds ascending, while the
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  Speaker 1: north wind sleeps or spread Heaven's cheerful face, the lowering
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  Speaker 1: elements scowls o'er the darkened landscap's snow or shower. If chance,
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  Speaker 1: the radiant sun, with farewell sweet extend his evening beam.
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  Speaker 1: The fields revive, the birds, their notes renew and bleating,
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  Speaker 1: herds attest their joy, that hill and valley rings, Oh
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  Speaker 1: shame to men, devil with devil, damned. Firm concord holds
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  Speaker 1: men only disagree of creatures, rational, though under hope of
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  Speaker 1: heavenly grace and God proclaiming peace, yet live in hatred, enmity,
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  Speaker 1: and strife among themselves, and levy cruel wars, wasting the
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  Speaker 1: earth each other to destroy. As if which might induce
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  Speaker 1: us to accord, men had not hellish foes, And now
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  Speaker 1: besides that day and night for his destruction wait end
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  Speaker 1: of Book two, Part one