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  Speaker 1: two thousand seven. Paradise Lost by John Milton, Book ten,
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  Speaker 1: Part one. Thus they, in lowliest plight repentance, stood praying
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  Speaker 1: for from the mercy seat above. Provenient grace descending had
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  Speaker 1: removed the stony from their hearts and made new flesh
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  Speaker 1: regenerate grow instead that sighs now breathed, unutterable, which the
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  Speaker 1: spirit of prayer inspired, and winged for Heaven with speedier
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  Speaker 1: flight than loudest oratory. Yet their port not of mean suitors,
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  Speaker 1: nor important. Less seemed their petition than when the ancient
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  Speaker 1: pair and fables old, less ancient yet than these Deucylian
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  Speaker 1: and chaste pyah to restore the race of mankind drowned
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  Speaker 1: before the shrine of themis stood devout to heaven. Their
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  Speaker 1: prayers flew up, nor missed the way by envious winds,
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  Speaker 1: blown vagabond or frustrate. In they passed dimentionless through heavenly doors,
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  Speaker 1: then clad with incense, where the golden altofund by their
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  Speaker 1: great intercessor came in sight before the Father's throne. Them
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  Speaker 1: the glad son, presenting thus to intercede, began, See Father,
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  Speaker 1: what first fruits on earth are sprung from thy implanted
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  Speaker 1: grace in man? These sighs and prayers, which in this
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  Speaker 1: golden censer mixed with incense, Ay, thy priest before THEE,
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  Speaker 1: bring fruits of more pleasing savor from thy seed sown
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  Speaker 1: with contrition in his heart than those which his own hand,
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  Speaker 1: manuring all the trees of paradise could have produced, ere
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  Speaker 1: fallen from innocence. Now therefore, bend thine ear to supplication.
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  Speaker 1: Hear his sighs. Thou mute, guilful with what words to pray?
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  Speaker 1: Let me interpret for him, me his advocate and propitiation
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  Speaker 1: all his works on me, good or not good, in
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  Speaker 1: graft my merit, those shall perfet and for these my
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  Speaker 1: death shall pay. Accept me, and in me from these
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  Speaker 1: receive the smell of peace towards mankind. Let him live
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  Speaker 1: before THEE reconciled, at least his days numbered, though sad
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  Speaker 1: till death. His doom, which I to mitigate. Thus plead
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  Speaker 1: not to reverse to better life, shall yield him, where
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  Speaker 1: with me all my redeemed may dwell in joy and bliss,
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  Speaker 1: made one with me, as I with thee am, one
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  Speaker 1: to whom the Father without clouds serene. All thy requests
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  Speaker 1: for men, excepted son obtain all thy request was my decree.
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  Speaker 1: But longer in that paradise to dwell. The law I
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  Speaker 1: gave to nature him forbids those pure immortal elements that
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  Speaker 1: know no gross, no so unharmonious mixture fowl eject him
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  Speaker 1: tainted now and purge him off as a distemper gross
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  Speaker 1: to air as gross and mortal food as may dispose
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  Speaker 1: him best for dissolution wrought by sin that first distempered
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  Speaker 1: all things, and of incorrupt corrupted. I at first, with
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  Speaker 1: two fair gifts, created him, endowed with happiness and immortality
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  Speaker 1: that fondly lost. This other served but to eternalize woe
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  Speaker 1: till I provided death. So death comes his final remedy,
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  Speaker 1: and after life tried in sharp tribulation and refined by
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  Speaker 1: faith and faithful works, to second life, waked in the
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  Speaker 1: renovation of the just, resigns him up with heaven and
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  Speaker 1: earth renewed. But let us call to synod all the
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  Speaker 1: blessed through Heaven's wide bounds from them. I will not
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  Speaker 1: hide my judgments. How with mankind I proceed as now
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  Speaker 1: with peccant angels. Late they saw, and in their state,
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  Speaker 1: though firm stood more confirmed he ended, and the sun
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  Speaker 1: gave signal high to the bright minister that watched. He
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  Speaker 1: blew his trumpet heard in orbs since perhaps when God descended,
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  Speaker 1: and perhaps once more to sound at general doom. The
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  Speaker 1: angelic blast filled all the regions from their blissful bowers
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  Speaker 1: of amarand and shade, fountain or spring by the waters
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  Speaker 1: of life, where they e'er they sate in fellowships of joy.
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  Speaker 1: The suns of light hasted, resorting to the summons high,
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  Speaker 1: and took their seats till from his throne Supreme the
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  Speaker 1: Almighty thus pronounced his sovereign will o sons. Like one
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  Speaker 1: of us men, is become to know both good and evil,
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  Speaker 1: since his taste of that defended fruit. But let him
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  Speaker 1: boast his knowledge of good lost in evil. God happier
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  Speaker 1: had it sufficed him to have known good by itself
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  Speaker 1: and evil not at all. He sorrows now repents and praise,
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  Speaker 1: contrite my motions in him longer than they his heart.
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  Speaker 1: I know how variable and vain self left. Least therefore
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  Speaker 1: his now bolder hand, reach also of the tree of life,
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  Speaker 1: and eat and live forever, dream at least to live
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  Speaker 1: for ever. To remove him, I decree and send him
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  Speaker 1: from the garden forth till the ground whence he was
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  Speaker 1: taken fitter soil. Michael, this my behest, Have thou in charge,
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  Speaker 1: take to THEE from among the cheruboom thy choice of
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  Speaker 1: flaming warriors, least the fiend or in behalf of man,
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  Speaker 1: or to invade vacant possessions some new trouble rays. Haste thee,
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  Speaker 1: and from the paradise of God, without remorse, drive out
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  Speaker 1: the civil pair from hallowed ground the unholy, and denounce
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  Speaker 1: to them and to their progeny. From thence perpetual banishment.
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  Speaker 1: Yet least they faint at the sad sentence, rigorously urged,
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  Speaker 1: for I behold them, softened and with tears, bewailing their
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  Speaker 1: excess all terror. Hide, If patiently thy bidding they obey,
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  Speaker 1: dismiss them, not disconsolate. Reveal to Adam what shall come
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  Speaker 1: in future days, as I shall be enlightened. Intermix my
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  Speaker 1: covenant in the woman's seed renewed. So send them forth,
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  Speaker 1: though sorrowing, yet in peace, and on the east side
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  Speaker 1: of the garden place where entrance up from Eden's easiest climes,
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  Speaker 1: Cherubic watch and of a sword, the flame wide, waving
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  Speaker 1: all approach far off, to fright and guard all passage
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  Speaker 1: to the Tree of life, least paradise, a receptacle proof
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  Speaker 1: to Spirit's fowl, and all my trees there prey with
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  Speaker 1: whom stolen fruit man once more to delude he ceased,
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  Speaker 1: and the archangelic power prepared for swift descent with him.
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  Speaker 1: The cohort bright of watchful Cheribim, four faces each had
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  Speaker 1: like a double Janus, all their shapes spangled with eyes
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  Speaker 1: more numerous than those of Argus, and more wakeful than
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  Speaker 1: to drowse, charmed with Arcadian pipe, the pastoral reed of
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  Speaker 1: Hermes or his opiate rod. Meanwhile to resolute the world
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  Speaker 1: with sacred light, Leucothia waked and with fresh dews embalmed
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  Speaker 1: the earth. When Adam and first matron Eve had ended,
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  Speaker 1: now their arisons and found strength added from above new
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  Speaker 1: hope to spring out of despair, joy, but with fear
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  Speaker 1: yet linked, which thus to Eve his welcome words renewed
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  Speaker 1: Eve easily may faith admit that all the good which
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  Speaker 1: we enjoy from heaven descends, but that from us aught
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  Speaker 1: should ascend to heaven so prevalent as to concern the
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  Speaker 1: mind of God high blest, or to incline his will.
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  Speaker 1: Hard to belief may seem, Yet this will prayer, or
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  Speaker 1: one short sigh of humane breath upborne even to the
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  Speaker 1: seat of God. For since I sought by prayer the
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  Speaker 1: offended deity to appease, kneel, and before him humbled all
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  Speaker 1: my heart methought, I saw him placable and mild, bending
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  Speaker 1: his ear. Persuasion in me grew that I was heard
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  Speaker 1: with favor. Peace returned home to my breast, and to
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  Speaker 1: my memory his promise that thy seed shall bruise our foe,
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  Speaker 1: which then not minded in dismay, yet now assures me
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  Speaker 1: that the bitterness of death is past, and we shall live.
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  Speaker 1: Whence hail to THEE Eve, rightly called mother of all mankind,
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  Speaker 1: mother of all things living. Since by THEE man is
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  Speaker 1: to live and all things live. For man to whom
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  Speaker 1: thus Eve with sad demeanor, meek ill worthy, I such
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  Speaker 1: titles should belong to me, transgressor, who for THEE ordained
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  Speaker 1: a help became thy snare to me reproach rather belongs
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  Speaker 1: distrust and all dispraise. But infinite pardon was my judge,
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  Speaker 1: that I, who first brought death on all am graced
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  Speaker 1: the source of life next favorable Thou who highly thus
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  Speaker 1: to entitle me vouchsafed far other name deserving. But the
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  Speaker 1: field to labour calls us now was sweat imposed. Though
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  Speaker 1: after sleepless night for see the morn, all concerned with
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  Speaker 1: our unrest, begins her rosy progress, smiling. Let us forth,
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  Speaker 1: I never from thy side, henceforth the stray where'er our
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  Speaker 1: day's work lies, though now enjoined, laborious till day droop,
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  Speaker 1: while here we dwell what can be toilsome in these
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  Speaker 1: pleasant walks. Here let us live, though in fallen state.
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  Speaker 1: Content so spake, so wished much humbled Eve, But fate
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  Speaker 1: subscribed not. Nature first gave signs impressed on bird beast
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  Speaker 1: air air suddenly eclipsed after a short blush of morn
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  Speaker 1: nigh in her sight, the bird of Joe stooped from
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  Speaker 1: his airy tour. Two birds of Gay's plume before him,
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  Speaker 1: drove down from a hill. The beast that reigns in woods.
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  Speaker 1: First hunter then pursued a gentle brace, goodliest of all
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  Speaker 1: the forest heart and hind direct to the eastern gate
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  Speaker 1: was bent their flight. Adam observed and with his eye
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  Speaker 1: the chase, pursuing not unmoved Eve. Thus spake o Eve,
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  Speaker 1: some further change awaits us nigh, which Heaven by these
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  Speaker 1: mute signs in nature shows forerunners of his purpose, or
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  Speaker 1: to warn us happily too secure of our discharge from penalty,
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  Speaker 1: because from death released some days, how long and what
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  Speaker 1: till then our life? Who knows oh more than this
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  Speaker 1: than we are dust, and thither must return and be
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  Speaker 1: no more? Why else this double object in our sight
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  Speaker 1: of flight pursued in the air and o'er the ground
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  Speaker 1: one way the self same hour. Why in the east
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  Speaker 1: darkness ere day's mid course and morning light more orient
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  Speaker 1: in yon western cloud that draws o'er the blue firmament,
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  Speaker 1: a radiant white and slow descends with something heavenly fraught.
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  Speaker 1: He erred not for by this the heavenly bands down
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  Speaker 1: from a sky of jasper, lighted now in paradise, and
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  Speaker 1: on a hail made alt a glorious apparition. Had not
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  Speaker 1: doubt and carnal fear that day dimmed Adam's eye, not
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  Speaker 1: that more glorious when the angels met Jacob in mayn Ahem,
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  Speaker 1: where he saw the field pavilioned with his guardian's bright,
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  Speaker 1: nor that which on the flaming mount appeared in Dothan
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  Speaker 1: covered with a camph of fire against the Syrian king, who,
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  Speaker 1: to surprise, when man assassin like had levied war war
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  Speaker 1: unproclaimed the princely hierarch in their bright stand. There left
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  Speaker 1: his powers to seize possession of the garden, he alone
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  Speaker 1: to find where Adam shelter took his way, not unperceived
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  Speaker 1: of Adam, who to Eve while the great Visitant approached.
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  Speaker 1: Thus spake Eve. Now expect great tidings, which perhaps of
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  Speaker 1: us will soon determine or impose new laws to be observed.
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  Speaker 1: For I descry from yonder blazing cloud that veils the
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  Speaker 1: hill one of the heavenly host, and by his gait
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  Speaker 1: none of the meanest some potentiate or of the thrones above.
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  Speaker 1: Such majesty invests him coming. Yet not terrible that I
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  Speaker 1: should fear, nor sociably mind as Raphael, that I should
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  Speaker 1: much confide, but solemn and sublime, whom not to offend
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  Speaker 1: with reverence I must meet, and thou retire. He ended,
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  Speaker 1: and the archangel soon drew nigh, not in his shape celestial,
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  Speaker 1: but as man, clad to meet man. Over his lucid arms,
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  Speaker 1: a military vest of purple flowed livelier than molybyan or
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  Speaker 1: the grain of Sarah, worn by kings and heroes old
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  Speaker 1: in time of truce. Iris had dipped the wolf, his
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  Speaker 1: starry helm, unbuckled, shewed him prime in manhood, where youth
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  Speaker 1: ended by his side, as in a glistering zodiac, hung
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  Speaker 1: the sword Satan's dire dread, and in his hand the spear.
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  Speaker 1: Adam bowed low. He king Thee from his state inclined
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  Speaker 1: not but his coming. Thus declared Adam, Heaven's high behest.
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  Speaker 1: No preface needs sufficient, that thy prayers are heard, and
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  Speaker 1: Death then do by sentence, when thou didst transgress, defeated
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  Speaker 1: of his seizure, many days given thee of grace, wherein
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  Speaker 1: thou mayst repent, and one bad act, with many deeds
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  Speaker 1: well done, mayst cover well. May then thy Lord appease
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  Speaker 1: to redeem thee quite from Death's rapacious claims. But longer
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  Speaker 1: in this paradise to dwell permits nought to remove THEE.
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  Speaker 1: I am come and send THEE from the garden forth
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  Speaker 1: to till the ground. Whence thou wast taken bitter soil,
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  Speaker 1: he added, not for Adam at the news, heart struck
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  Speaker 1: with chilling gripe of sorrow, stood that all his senses
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  Speaker 1: be Eve, who unseen yet all had heard with audible lament,
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  Speaker 1: discovered soon the place of her retire O unexpected stroke
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  Speaker 1: worse than of death. Must I thus leave THEE paradise,
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  Speaker 1: Thus leave thee native soil. These happy walks and shades
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  Speaker 1: fit haunt of gods, where I had hope to spend quiet,
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  Speaker 1: though sad, the respite of that day that must be
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  Speaker 1: mortal to us. Both O flowers that never will in
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  Speaker 1: other climate grow my early visitation and my last at
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  Speaker 1: even which I bred up with tender hand from the
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  Speaker 1: first opening bud and gave ye names which now shall
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  Speaker 1: rear ye to the sun, or rank your tribes. And
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  Speaker 1: water from the ambrosial found thee lastly nuptial bower by
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  Speaker 1: me adorn'd with what to sight or smell was sweet
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  Speaker 1: from THEE. How shall I part, and whither wander down
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  Speaker 1: into a lower world to this obscure and wild How
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  Speaker 1: shall we breathe in other air less pure, accustomed to
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  Speaker 1: immortal fruits, whom thus the angel interrupted, mild, lament, not eve,
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  Speaker 1: but patiently resign what justly thou hast lost, nor set
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  Speaker 1: thy heart. Thus, over fond on that which is not thine,
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  Speaker 1: thy going is not lonely. With thee goes thy husband
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  Speaker 1: him to follow thou art bound where he abides. Think
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  Speaker 1: there thy native soil adam by this from the cold, sudden, damp, recovering,
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  Speaker 1: and his scattered spirits returned to Michael. Thus his humble
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  Speaker 1: words addressed celestial, whether among the thrones or named of
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  Speaker 1: them the highest, for such shape may seem Prince above princes,
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  Speaker 1: gently hast thou told thy message, which might else? In
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  Speaker 1: telling wound and in performing end us what besides of
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  Speaker 1: sorrow and dejection and dis beere our frailty can sustain
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  Speaker 1: Thy tidings bring departure from this happy place, our sweet recess,
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  Speaker 1: and only consolation left familiar to our eyes. All places
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  Speaker 1: else inhospitable, appear and desolate, nor knowing us nor known.
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  Speaker 1: And if by prayer incessant I could hope to change
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  Speaker 1: the will of Him whom all things can, I would
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  Speaker 1: not cease to worry him with my assiduous cries. But
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  Speaker 1: prayer against his absolute decree no more avails than breath
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  Speaker 1: against the wind blown stifling back on him that breast
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  Speaker 1: set forth. Therefore, to his great bidding, I submit this
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  Speaker 1: most afflicts me, that departing hence as from his face,
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  Speaker 1: I shall be hid, deprived his blessed countenance. Here I
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  Speaker 1: could frequent with worship, placed by place where he vouchsafed
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  Speaker 1: presence divine, and to my sons relate on this mount.
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  Speaker 1: He appeared under this tree, stood visible among these pines.
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  Speaker 1: His voice I heard here with him at this fountain,
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  Speaker 1: talked so many grateful altars. I would rear of grassy turf,
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  Speaker 1: and pile up every stone of luster from the brook
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  Speaker 1: in memory or monument to ages, and thereon offer sweet
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  Speaker 1: smelling gums and fruits and flowers. In yonder nether world,
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  Speaker 1: where shall I seek his bright appearances or footsteps trace?
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  Speaker 1: For though I fled him angry, yet recalled to life
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  Speaker 1: prolonged and promise race, I now gladly behold though but
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  Speaker 1: his utmost skirts of glory, and far off his steps
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  Speaker 1: adoor to whom Thus Michael, with regard benign Adam, Thou
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  Speaker 1: know'st heaven, his, and all the earth, not this rock.
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  Speaker 1: Only his omnipresence fills land, sea and air, and every
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  Speaker 1: kind that lives. Fomented by his virtual power, and warmed
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  Speaker 1: all the earth. He gave THEE to possess and rule,
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  Speaker 1: no despicable gift surmise not then his presence to these
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  Speaker 1: neri robounds, confined of paradise or Eden. This had been
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  Speaker 1: perhaps thy capital seat, from whence had spread all generations
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  Speaker 1: that had hither come from all the ends of the
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  Speaker 1: earth to celebrate and reverence THEE their great progenitor. But
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  Speaker 1: this pre eminence thou hast lost, brought down to dwell
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  Speaker 1: on even ground now with thy sons. Yet doubt not,
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  Speaker 1: but in valley and in plain God is as here
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  Speaker 1: and will be found alike, present, and all of his
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  Speaker 1: presence many a sign still following THEE, still compassing THEE
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  Speaker 1: round with goodness and paternal love, his face express and
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  Speaker 1: of his steps the tract divine, which that thou mayst
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  Speaker 1: believe and be confirmed. Ere thou from hence depart know,
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  Speaker 1: I am sent to show THEE what shall come in
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  Speaker 1: future days, to THEE and to thy offspring. Good with bad,
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  Speaker 1: expect to hear supernal grace, contending with simfulness of men,
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  Speaker 1: thereby to learn true patience and to tempt per joy
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  Speaker 1: with fear and pious sorrow, equally inerd by moderation either
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  Speaker 1: state to bear prosperous or adverse. So shalt thou lead
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  Speaker 1: safest thy life and best prepared endure thy mortal passage
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  Speaker 1: when it comes. Ascend this hill. Let Eve, for I
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  Speaker 1: have drenched her eyes here sleep below, while thou to
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  Speaker 1: foresight wakest, and once thou slep'st while she to life
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  Speaker 1: was formed to whom. Thus Adam gratefully replied, I send
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  Speaker 1: I follow thee save, guide the path thou lead'st me,
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  Speaker 1: and to the hand of Heaven. Submit, however, chastening to
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  Speaker 1: the evil, turn my obvious breath, arming to overcome by
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  Speaker 1: suffering and earn rest from labor one, if so I
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  Speaker 1: may attain, so both ascend in the visions of God.
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  Speaker 1: It was a hill of paradise, the highest from whose
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  Speaker 1: top the hemisphere of Earth in clearest can stretched out
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  Speaker 1: to amplest reach of prospect. Lay not higher that hill,
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  Speaker 1: nor wider looking round whereon for different cause the tempter
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  Speaker 1: set our Atom in the wilderness, to show him all
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  Speaker 1: the Earth's kingdoms and their glory. His eye might there
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  Speaker 1: command wherever stood city of old or modern fame, the
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  Speaker 1: seat of mightiest Empire, from the destined walls of Kambaloo,
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  Speaker 1: seat of Kathayan Khan and Samarkan, by Oxus Timir's throne,
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  Speaker 1: to Packin of Senane kings, and thence to Agra and
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  Speaker 1: the whore of Great Mogul, down to the golden Chersones,
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  Speaker 1: or where the Persian in Ecbatan sat or since in Hispahin,
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  Speaker 1: or where the Russian Tsar in Moscow or the Sultan
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  Speaker 1: in Byzance turksten born. Nor could his I not kin
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  Speaker 1: the Empire of Negus to its utmost port Ercuco and
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  Speaker 1: the less Maritan kings Mumbaza in Kilwa and Milind and Sophala,
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  Speaker 1: though offer to the realm of Kongo and Angola farthest south,
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  Speaker 1: or thence from Niger fled to Atlas Mount, the kingdoms
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  Speaker 1: of Alamensor, Fez and Sous, Morocco, and Algiers and Tremensen
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  Speaker 1: on Europe, thence and where Rome was to sway the
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  Speaker 1: world in spirit. Perhaps he also saw rich Mexico the
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  Speaker 1: seat of Montezuma, and Cusco in Peru, the richer seat
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  Speaker 1: of Atabilipa, and yet unspoiled Guiana, whose great city Jerrian
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  Speaker 1: sons call El Dorado, but to nobler sites Michael. From
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  Speaker 1: Adam's eye the film removed, which that false fruit that
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  Speaker 1: promised clearer sight had bred, then purged with euphrasi and
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  Speaker 1: rue the visual nerve. For he had much to see.
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  Speaker 1: And from the well of life three drops instilled. So
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  Speaker 1: deep the power of these ingredients pierced even to the
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  Speaker 1: inmost seat of mental sight, that Adam, now enforced to
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  Speaker 1: close his eyes, sunk down in all his spirits, became intransit.
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  Speaker 1: But him, the gentle angel by the hand, soon raised,
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  Speaker 1: and his attention thus recalled. Adam. Now ope thine eyes,
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  Speaker 1: and first behold the effects which thy original crime hath
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  Speaker 1: wrought in some to spring from thee who never touched
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  Speaker 1: thee accepted tree, nor with the snake conspired, nor sinned
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  Speaker 1: thy sin. Yet from that sin derive corruption to bring
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  Speaker 1: forth more violent deeds. His eyes he opened and beheld
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  Speaker 1: a field part arable and tilt, whereon were sheaves new
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  Speaker 1: rept the other part sheep walks and folds if amidst
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  Speaker 1: an altar, as the landmarks stood rustic of grassy sword.
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  Speaker 1: Thither Anon, a sweaty reaper from his tillage, brought first fruit,
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  Speaker 1: the green ear, and the yellow sheaf, uncalled as came
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  Speaker 1: to hand a shepherd. Next, more meek came with the
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  Speaker 1: firstlings of his flock, choicest and best. Then, sacrificing, laid
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  Speaker 1: the inwards, and their fat, with incense strewed on the
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  Speaker 1: cleft of wood, and all due rites performed his offerings.
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  Speaker 1: Soon proprietous fire from heaven consumed with nimble glance and
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  Speaker 1: grateful steam. The others not, for his was not sincere
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  Speaker 1: whereat he and lie raged, and as they talked, smote
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  Speaker 1: him into the middriff with a stone that beat out life.
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  Speaker 1: He fell, and deadly, pale, groaned out his soul with
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  Speaker 1: gushing blood affused. Much at that sight was Adam, and
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  Speaker 1: his heart dismayed. And thus in haste to the angel, cried,
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  Speaker 1: O Teacher, some great mischief hath befallen to that meek man,
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  Speaker 1: who well had sacrificed his piety. Thus and pure devotion
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  Speaker 1: paid to whom Michael. Thus he also moved, replied these
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  Speaker 1: two were brethren, Adam, and to come out of thy
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  Speaker 1: loins the unjust, the just hath flain for envy that
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  Speaker 1: his brother offering found from heaven acceptance. But the bloody
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  Speaker 1: fact will be avenged, and the other's faith approved. Loose
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  Speaker 1: no reward, though here thou see him die, rolling in
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  Speaker 1: dust and gore, to which are a sire alas both
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  Speaker 1: for the deed and for the cause. But have I
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  Speaker 1: now seen death? Is this the way I must return
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  Speaker 1: to native dust? O sight of terror, foul and ugly,
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  Speaker 1: to behold, horrid, to think, how horrible to feel to
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  Speaker 1: whom Thus Michael dst thou hast seen in his first
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  Speaker 1: shape on man, But many shapes of death, And that
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: many are the ways that lead to his grim cave,
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  Speaker 1: all dismal yet to sense more terrible at the entrance
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  Speaker 1: than within. Some, as thou sawest by violent stroke, shall
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  Speaker 1: die by fire, flood, famine, by intemperance. More in meats
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  Speaker 1: and drinks, which on the earth shall bring disease, dire,
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  Speaker 1: of which a monstrous crew before thee shall that thou
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  Speaker 1: mayst know what misery the inabstinence of eves shall bring
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  Speaker 1: on men. Immediately a place before his eyes appeared sad, noisome, dark,
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  Speaker 1: a lazar house, it seemed, wherein were laid numbers of
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  Speaker 1: all diseased, all maladies of ghastly spasm or racking torture,
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  Speaker 1: qualms of heart sick agony, all feverish kinds, convulsions, epilepsies,
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  Speaker 1: fierce catters, intestine stood one and ulcer colic pangs, dropsies
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  Speaker 1: and athmas, and joint racking rooms. Dire were the tossing, deep,
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  Speaker 1: the groans. Despair tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch,
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  Speaker 1: and over them triumphant death. His dart shook, but delayed
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  Speaker 1: to strike, though oft invoked with vows as their chief
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  Speaker 1: good and final hope, sight so deform. What heart of
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  Speaker 1: rock could long, dry eyed behold? Adam could not but wept,
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  Speaker 1: though not of woman born. Compassion quelled his best of man,
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  Speaker 1: and gave him up to tears, a space till firmer thoughts, restrained,
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  Speaker 1: excess and scarce recovering words. His plaint renewed, O miserable mankind?
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  Speaker 1: To what fall degraded? To what wretched state reserved better? End?
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  Speaker 1: Here unborn? Why is life given to be thus wrested
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  Speaker 1: from us? Rather, why obtruded on us? Thus, who, if
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  Speaker 1: we knew what we receive, would either not accept life
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  Speaker 1: offered or soon beg to lay it down glad to
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  Speaker 1: be so dismissed in peace? Can thus the image of
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  Speaker 1: God in man created once so goodly, an erect, though faulty.
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  Speaker 1: Since to such unsightly sufferings be debased under inhuman pains,
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  Speaker 1: why should not man, retaining still divine similitude in part
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  Speaker 1: from such deformities, be free and for his maker's image sake? Exempt?
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  Speaker 1: Their maker's image, answered Michael, Then forsook them when themselves
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  Speaker 1: they vilified to serve ungoverned appetite, and took his image,
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  Speaker 1: whom they served a brutish vice, inductive mainly to the
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  Speaker 1: sin of eve. Therefore, so object is their punishment, disfiguring
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  Speaker 1: not God's likeness but their own, or if his likeness
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  Speaker 1: by themselves defaced while they pervert pure nature's healthful rules,
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  Speaker 1: to loathe them sickness worthily, since they God's image did
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  Speaker 1: not reverence in themselves. I yield it, just said Adam,
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  Speaker 1: and submit. But is there yet no other way besides
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  Speaker 1: these painful passages? How we may come to death and
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  Speaker 1: mix with our caunnatural dust. There is, said Michael. If
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  Speaker 1: thou well observe the rule of not too much by
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  Speaker 1: temperance taught in what thou east, and drink'st seeking from
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  Speaker 1: thence due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, till many years o'er
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  Speaker 1: thy head return. So mayst thou live till I right
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  Speaker 1: fruit thou drop into thy mother's lap, or be with
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  Speaker 1: ease gathered, not harshly pluck'd for death mature. This is
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  Speaker 1: old age. But then thou must outlive thy youth, thy strength,
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  Speaker 1: thy beauty, which will change to withered, weak and gray
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  Speaker 1: thy senses. Then obtuse all taste of pleasure must forego
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  Speaker 1: to what thou hast, and for the air of youth,
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  Speaker 1: hopeful and cheerful in thy blood will rain a melancholy
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  Speaker 1: damp of cold and dry, to weigh thy spirits down,
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: and last, consume the balm of life to whom our
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: ancestor hence forth I fly not death, nor would prolong
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  Speaker 1: life much brent. Rather, how I may quit fairest and
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  Speaker 1: easiest of this combrous charge, which I must keep till
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: my appointed day of rendering up. Michael to him replied,
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  Speaker 1: nor love thy life, nor hate. But what thou list
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  Speaker 1: live well, how long or short, permit to heaven. And
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: now prepare thee for another sight. He looked and saw
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: a spacious plain, whereon were tents of various hue. By
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: some were herds of cattle grazing others. Whence the sound
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: of instruments that made melodious chime was heard of harp
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: an organ, and who moved their stops and cords was
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: seen his violent touch instinct. Through all proportions, low and high,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: fled and pursued transverse the resonant fugue. In other parts
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: stood one who, at the forged laboring two massy clods
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: of iron and brass had melted, whether found where casual
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: fire had wasted woods on mountain or in veil down
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: to the veins of earth, thence gliding hot to some
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: cave's mouth, or whether washed by stream from underground. The
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: liquid ore he drained into fit moles, prepared from which
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: he formed first his own tools the what might else
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: be wrought, fulfill or graven in metal. After these, but
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: on the heather side, a different sort from the high
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: neighboring hills, which was their seat, down to the plain
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  Speaker 1: descended by their guise. Just men they seemed, and all
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  Speaker 1: their study bent to worship God aright, and know his works,
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  Speaker 1: not hid, nor those things lost, which might preserve freedom
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  Speaker 1: and peace to men. They on the plain long had
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  Speaker 1: not walked, when from the tents behold a bevy of
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: fair women, richly gay in gems, in wanton dress. To
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: the harp they sung soft, amorous ditties, and in dance
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  Speaker 1: came on the men, though grave, eyed them, and let
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  Speaker 1: their eyes rove without rain, till in the amorous net
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: fast caught they liked, and each his liking chose, And
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: now of love they treat till the evening star Love's
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: harbinger appeared. Then, all in heat they light the nuptial
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: torch and bid invoke hymen. Then first to marriage rights
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: invoked with feast and music all the tents, such happy
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: interview and fair event of love and youth, not lost songs, garlands, flowers,
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  Speaker 1: and charming symphonies attached the heart of Adam soon inclined
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  Speaker 1: to admit delight the vent of nature, which he thus expressed,
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  Speaker 1: true opener of mine eyes, prime Angel blest. Much better
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: seems this vision, and more hopeful of peaceful days, portend
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  Speaker 1: than these two past. Those were of hate and death,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: or pain much worse. Here Nature seems fulfilled in all
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: her ends, to whom, thus Michael, judge not what is
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: best by pleasure, though to nature seeming meet created as
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: thou art, to nobler end, holy and pure conformity, divine.
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  Speaker 1: Those tents thou sawest so pleasant were the tents of wickedness.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Wherein shall dwell his race who slew his brother studious.
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  Speaker 1: They appear of arts that polished life, inventors rare, mindful
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: of their makers, though Spirit taught them, but they his
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  Speaker 1: gifts acknowledged none. Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: for that fair female troop thou sawest, that seemed of goddesses,
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  Speaker 1: so blithe, so smooth, so gay, yet empty of all good,
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  Speaker 1: wherein consists woman's domestic honor and chief praise, bread only,
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  Speaker 1: and completed to the taste of lustful appearance, to sing,
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  Speaker 1: to dance, to dress, and truel the tongue and roll
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: the eye. To these, that sober race of men, whose
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: lives religious titled them sons of God, shall yield all
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: their virtue, all their fame, ignobly to the trains, and
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: to the smiles of these fair atheists, and now swim
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: in joy, ere long to swim at large and laugh,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: for which the world ere long, a world of tears,
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  Speaker 1: must weep, to whom this atom of short joy bereft
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: o pity and shame, that they who live well interred
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: so fair should turn aside to tread paths indirect or
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: in the midway faint. But still I see the tenor
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: of man's woe holds on the same, from woman to begin,
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  Speaker 1: from man's effeminate slackness, it begins, said the angel, who
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: should better hold his place by wisdom and superior gifts received.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: But now prepare thee for another scene. He looked and
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: saw wide territory spread before him, towns and rural works,
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: between cities of men with lofty gates and towers, concours
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: and arms, fierce faces, threatening war. Giants of mighty bone
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: and bold emprise, part wheeled, their arms, part curb the
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: foaming steed. Single or an array of battle ranged both
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: horse and foot, nor idly mustering stood one way. A
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: band select from forage, drives a herd of beads, fair oxen,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: and fair kind from a fat meadow ground or fleecy
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: flock use in their beating lambs over the plain, their
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: booty scarce with life. The shepherds fly, but call an aid,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: which tax a bloody fray with cruel tournament. The squadrons join,
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: where cattle pasture late, now scattered, lies with carcasses and arms.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: The ensanguined field deserted. Others to a city strong lay siege,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: encamped by battery, scale and mine, assaulting others from the
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: wall defend with dart and javelin, stones and sulfurous fire
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: on each hand. Slaughter and gigantic deeds in other parts.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: The sceptred heralds call to council in the city gates Anon,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: gray headed men and grave with warriors mixed assemble and
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: harangues are heard, but soon in factious opposition. Till at
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: last of middle age, one rising eminent and wise deports
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: spake much of right and wrong, of justice, of religion,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: truth and peace and judgment from above him old and
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: young exploded and had seized with violent hads, had not
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: a cloud descending snatched him thence unseen among the throng.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: So violence proceeded, and oppression and sword law through all
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: the plane and refuge, none was found. Adam was volunteers,
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: and who his guide lamenting turned full sad. Oh, what
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: are these death's ministers? Not men who thus deal death
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: inhumanely to men, and multiplied ten thousand fold the sin
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: of him who slew his brother, For of whom such
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: massacre make they? But of their brethren, men of men?
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: But who was that just man whom had not Heaven rescued,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: had in his righteousness been lost to whom Thus, Michael,
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: these are the product of those illmated marriages thou sawest,
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: where good with bad were matched, who of themselves abhorred
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: to join, and by imprudence mixed produced prodigious births of
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: body or mind. Such were these giants, men of high renown.
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  Speaker 1: For in those days might one only shall be admired,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: and valor and heroic virtue, called to overcome and battle
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: and subdue nations and bring home spoils with infinite manslaughter,
• 36:14
  Speaker 1: shall be held the highest pitch of human glory, and
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: for glory done of triumph, to be styled great conquerors,
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: patrons of mankind, gods and son of gods, destroyers rightly called,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: and plagues of men. Thus fame shall be achieved renown
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: on earth, and what most merits fame and silence. Hid
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: but He the Seventh, from THEE whom thou beheldst the
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: only righteous in a world perverse, and therefore hated, therefore
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: so beset with foes, for daring single to be just
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: an utter odious truth, that God would come to judge
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: them with his saints, Him the most High, wrapped in
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: a balmy cloud with winged steeds, did as thou sawest
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: received to war walk with God in high salvation and
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: the climes of bliss, exempt from death, to show thee
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: what reward awaits the good, the rest, what punishment which
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: now direct thine eyes and soon behold. End of Book ten,
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  Speaker 1: Part one,