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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Greg Bryant. Paradise Lost
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  Speaker 1: by John Milton, Book eight, Part one, No more of talk,
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  Speaker 1: where God or Angel guessed with Man as with his
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  Speaker 1: friend familiar, used to sit indulgent and with him partake
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  Speaker 1: rural repast, permitting him the while venial discourse unblamed. I
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  Speaker 1: now must change those notes to tragic foul, distrust and breach,
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  Speaker 1: disloyal on the part of Man, revolt and disobedience on
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  Speaker 1: the part of Heaven, now alienated, distance and distaste, anger
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  Speaker 1: and just rebuke and judgment, given that brought into this
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  Speaker 1: world a world of woe, sin and her shadow, death
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  Speaker 1: and misery, Death's heartarbinger sad task yet argument not less
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  Speaker 1: but more heroic than the wrath of stern Achilles on
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  Speaker 1: his foe pursued thrice fugitive about troy Wall, or rage
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  Speaker 1: of Turnus for Lavinia disespoused, or Neptune's ire or Juno's
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  Speaker 1: that so long perplexed the Greek and Cytherea's son. If
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  Speaker 1: answerable style, I can obtain of my celestial patroness, who
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  Speaker 1: deigns her nightly visitation unimplored, and dictates to me slumbering
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  Speaker 1: or inspires easy my unpremeditated verse. Since first this subject
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  Speaker 1: for heroic song pleased me, long choosing and beginning late,
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  Speaker 1: not sedulous by nature to indict wars hitherto the only
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  Speaker 1: argument heroic deemed chief mastery to dissect with long and
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  Speaker 1: tedious havoc, fabled knights in battles feigned the better fortitude
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  Speaker 1: of patience and heroic martyrdom unsung, Or to describe races
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  Speaker 1: and games, or tilting furniture, emblazoned shields, impresses, quaint caparisons
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  Speaker 1: and steeds, bases and tinsel trappings, gorgeous nights at joust
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  Speaker 1: and tournament, then martialed feasts served up in hall with
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  Speaker 1: sewers and senesials. The skill of artifice or office mean
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  Speaker 1: not that which justly gives heroic name to person or
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  Speaker 1: to poem. Me of these, nor skilled nor studious. Higher
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  Speaker 1: argument remains sufficient of itself to raise that name, unless
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  Speaker 1: an age too late, or cold climate or years damp,
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  Speaker 1: my intended wing depressed, and much they may, if all
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  Speaker 1: be mine, not hers, who brings it nightly to my ear.
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  Speaker 1: The sun was sunk, and after him the star of Hesperus,
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  Speaker 1: whose office is to bring twilight upon the earth, short
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  Speaker 1: arbiter TwixT day and night, and now from end to end,
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  Speaker 1: Knight's hemisphere had veiled the horizon round. When Satan, who
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  Speaker 1: late fled before the threats of Gabriel out of Eden,
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  Speaker 1: now improved in meditated fraud and malice, bent on man's destruction, Maugre,
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  Speaker 1: what might hap of heavier on himself? Fearless returned by
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  Speaker 1: night he fled, and at midnight returned from compassing the earth,
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  Speaker 1: cautious of day, since Uril, regent of the sun, descried
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  Speaker 1: his entrance and forewarned the Cherubim that kept their watch.
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  Speaker 1: Thence full of anguish, driven the space of seven continued nights,
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  Speaker 1: he rode with darkness thrice the equinoctial line he circled
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  Speaker 1: four times, crossed the car of night from pole to pole,
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  Speaker 1: traversing each collure. On the eighth returned, and on the
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  Speaker 1: coast aversed from entrance or Cherubic watch by stealth found
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  Speaker 1: unsuspected way there was a place now not though sin
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  Speaker 1: not time first wrought the change where Tigris at the
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  Speaker 1: foot of Paradise into a gulf shot underground till part
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  Speaker 1: rose up a fountain by the tree of life, in
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  Speaker 1: with the river sunk, and with it rose Satan involved
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  Speaker 1: in rising mist. Then sought where to lie hid sea.
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  Speaker 1: He had searched, and land from Eden over Pontus and
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  Speaker 1: the pool Meotis up beyond the river ob downward as
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  Speaker 1: far Antarctic, and in length west from Orantes to the
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  Speaker 1: ocean barred at Darien, thence to the land where flows
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  Speaker 1: Ganges and Indus. Thus the orb He roamed, with narrow
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  Speaker 1: search and with inspection deep considered every creature which of
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  Speaker 1: all most opportune might serve his wiles, and found the serpent,
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  Speaker 1: subtlest beast of all the field him. After long debate,
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  Speaker 1: irresolute of thoughts, revolved his final sentence, chose fit vessel,
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  Speaker 1: fittest imp of fraud, in whom to enter, and his
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  Speaker 1: dark suggestions hide from sharpest sight. For in the wily snake,
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  Speaker 1: whatever slights, none would suspicious mark as from his wit
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  Speaker 1: and native subtlety, proceeding which in other beasts observed doubt
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  Speaker 1: might beget of diabolic power active within beyond the sense
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  Speaker 1: of brute. Thus he resolved, but first from inward grief,
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  Speaker 1: his bursting passion into plaints. Thus poured o earth, how
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  Speaker 1: like to heaven, if not preferred more justly, seat worthier
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  Speaker 1: of gods, as built with second thoughts, reforming what was
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  Speaker 1: old for what God after better worse, would build terrestrial
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  Speaker 1: Heaven danced round by other heavens that shine, yet bear
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  Speaker 1: their bright officious lamps, light above light for THEE alone,
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  Speaker 1: as seems in THEE, concentering all their precious beams of
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  Speaker 1: sacred influence. As God in Heaven is center, yet extends
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  Speaker 1: to all. So thou centering receivest from all these orbs
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  Speaker 1: in THEE, not in themselves. All their known virtue appears
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  Speaker 1: productive in herb, plant and nobler birth of creatures, animate,
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  Speaker 1: with gradual life, of growth, sense, reason, all summed up
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  Speaker 1: in man with what delight? Could I have walked THEE
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  Speaker 1: round if I could joy and aught sweet interchange of
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  Speaker 1: hill and valley, rivers, woods and plains, now land, now
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  Speaker 1: sea and shores with forest crowned rocks, dens and caves.
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  Speaker 1: But I in none of these fine place or refuge.
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  Speaker 1: And the more I see pleasures about me, so much
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  Speaker 1: more I feel torment within me, as from the hateful
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  Speaker 1: siege of contraries. All good to me becomes bane, and
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  Speaker 1: in heaven much worse would be my state. But neither
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  Speaker 1: here seek I no nor in heaven to dwell unless
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  Speaker 1: by mastering Heaven's supreme, nor hope to be myself less
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  Speaker 1: miserable by what I seek, but others to make such
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  Speaker 1: as I, though thereby worse to me redound. For only
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  Speaker 1: in destroying I find ease to my relentless thought, and
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  Speaker 1: him destroyed, or one to what may work his utter loss,
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  Speaker 1: for whom all this was made, All this will soon follow,
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  Speaker 1: as to him linked in weal or woe in woe,
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  Speaker 1: Then that destruction wide may range to me shall be
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  Speaker 1: the glorious soul among the infernal powers, in one day
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  Speaker 1: to have marred what he Almighty styled six nights and
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  Speaker 1: days continued making, and who knows how long before had
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  Speaker 1: been contriving, though perhaps not longer than since I in
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  Speaker 1: one night freed from servitude in glorious well, nigh half
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  Speaker 1: the angelic name, and thinner left the throng of his adorers,
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  Speaker 1: he to be avenged and to repair his numbers. Thus impaired,
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  Speaker 1: whether such virtues spent of old now failed more angels
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  Speaker 1: to create, if they at least are His created, or
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  Speaker 1: to spite us more determined to advance into our room,
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  Speaker 1: a creature formed of earth, and him endow exalted from
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  Speaker 1: so base, a ridge with heavenly spoils, our spoils. What
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  Speaker 1: he decreed, he affected, Man he made, and for him
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  Speaker 1: built magnificent this world and earth his seat, him Lord pronounced,
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  Speaker 1: and oh indignity subjected to his service, angel wings and
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  Speaker 1: flaming ministers, to watch and tend their earthly charge. Of
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  Speaker 1: these the vigilance I dread and to elude. Thus wrapped
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  Speaker 1: in mist of midnight vapor, glide, obscure, and pry in
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  Speaker 1: every bush and break wherehap may find the serpent sleeping
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  Speaker 1: in whose mazy folds to hide me and the dark
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  Speaker 1: intent I bring o foul descent, that I, who erst
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  Speaker 1: contended with gods to sit the highest, am now constrained
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  Speaker 1: into a beast and mixed with bestial slime. This essence
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  Speaker 1: to incarnate and imbrute that to the height of deity aspired.
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  Speaker 1: But what will not ambition and revenge descend to who
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  Speaker 1: aspires must down as low as high he soared, obnoxios
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  Speaker 1: first or last to basest things. Revenge at first, though
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  Speaker 1: sweet bitterer, long back on itself, recoils. Let it I
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  Speaker 1: reck not so it light well aimed, since higher I
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  Speaker 1: fall short on him who next provokes my envy, This
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  Speaker 1: new favorite of Heaven, this man of Clay, son of Despite,
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  Speaker 1: who must the more to spite his maker, raised from dust, spite,
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  Speaker 1: then with spite his best repaid, so saying through each
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  Speaker 1: thicket dank or dry, like a black mist. Low creeping,
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  Speaker 1: he held on his midnight search where soonest he might
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  Speaker 1: find the serpent him fast sleeping, Soon he found in
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  Speaker 1: labyrinth of many a round self rolled his head, the
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  Speaker 1: midst well stored with subtle wiles, not yet in horrid
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  Speaker 1: shade or dismal den, nor noisent yet, But on the
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  Speaker 1: grassy herb, fearless, unfeared, he slept in at his mouth.
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  Speaker 1: The devil entered, and his brutals sense in heart or head, possessing,
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  Speaker 1: soon inspired with act intelligential, but his sleep disturbed, not
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  Speaker 1: waiting close the approach of morn. Now, when as sacred
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  Speaker 1: light began to dawn in Eden, on the humid flowers
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  Speaker 1: that breathed their morning incense, when all things that breathe
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  Speaker 1: from the Earth's great altar send up silent praise to
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  Speaker 1: the creator, and his nostrils filled with grateful smell. Forth
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  Speaker 1: came the human pair and joined their vocal worship to
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  Speaker 1: the choir of Creature's wanting voice. That done partake the
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  Speaker 1: season prime for sweetest scents and airs, then commune how
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  Speaker 1: that day they best may ply their growing work. For
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  Speaker 1: much their work out grew the hand's dispatch of two
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  Speaker 1: gardenings so wide, and eve first to her husband. Thus
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  Speaker 1: began Adam, Well, may we labor still to dress this garden,
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  Speaker 1: still to tend, plant, herb and flower. Our pleasant task enjoined.
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  Speaker 1: But till more hands aid us, the work under our
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  Speaker 1: labor grew luxurious. By restraint. What we by day lop overgrown,
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  Speaker 1: or prune, or prop or bind one night or two
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  Speaker 1: with wanton growth derides tending to wild. Thou therefore, now
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  Speaker 1: advise or hear what to my mind first thoughts present,
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  Speaker 1: Let us divide our labors, Thou where choice leads thee
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  Speaker 1: or where most needs, whether to wind the woodbine round
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  Speaker 1: this arbor, or direct the clasping ivy, Where to climb,
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  Speaker 1: while I in yonder spring of roses, intermixed with myrtle,
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  Speaker 1: find what to redress till noon, for while so near
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  Speaker 1: each other. Thus all day our task. We choose what
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  Speaker 1: wonder if so near looks intervene and smiles or object
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  Speaker 1: new casual discourse draw on which intermits our day's work
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  Speaker 1: brought to little, though begun early, and the hour of
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  Speaker 1: supper comes unearned to whom mild answer Adam thus returned soul, Eve,
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  Speaker 1: associate's soul to me beyond compare above all living creatures.
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  Speaker 1: Dear well, hast thou motioned well thy thoughts employed? How
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  Speaker 1: we might best fulfill the work which here God hath
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  Speaker 1: assigned us, Nor of me shalt pass unpraised. For nothing
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  Speaker 1: lovelier can be found in woman than to study household
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  Speaker 1: good and good works in her husband to promote. Yet
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  Speaker 1: not so strictly hath our Lord imposed labor as to
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  Speaker 1: debar us when we need refreshment, whether food or talk,
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  Speaker 1: between food of the mind or this sweet intercourse of
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  Speaker 1: looks and smiles for smiles from reason flow to brute denied,
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  Speaker 1: and are of love the food Love not the lowest
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  Speaker 1: end of human life, for not to irksome toil, but
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  Speaker 1: to delight he made us, and delight to reason. Joined
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  Speaker 1: these paths and bowers doubt not, but our joint hands
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  Speaker 1: will keep from wilderness with ease, as white as we
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  Speaker 1: need walk, till younger hands ere long assist us. But
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  Speaker 1: if much converse, perhaps thee satiate to short absence, I
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  Speaker 1: could yield, for solitude sometimes is best society, and short
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  Speaker 1: retirement urges sweet return. But other doubt possesses me lest
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  Speaker 1: harm befall thee severed from me? For thou knowest what
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  Speaker 1: hath been warned us? What malicious foe, envying our happiness
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  Speaker 1: and of his own despairing, seeks to work us woe
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  Speaker 1: and shame by sly assault, And somewhere nigh at hand
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  Speaker 1: watches no doubt, with greedy hope to find his wish
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  Speaker 1: and best advantage us asunder hopeless to circumvent us join'd
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  Speaker 1: where each to other speedy aid might lend at need.
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  Speaker 1: Whether his first design be to withdraw our fealty from God,
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  Speaker 1: or to disturb conjugal love than which perhaps no bliss
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed by us excites his envy more, or this or worse,
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  Speaker 1: leave not the faithful side that gave THEE being still
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  Speaker 1: shades thee and protects the wife where danger or dishonor lurks,
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  Speaker 1: safest and seemlest by her husband's stays, Who guards her
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  Speaker 1: or with her the worst endures to whom the virgin
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  Speaker 1: majesty of Eve, as one who loves and some unkindness,
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  Speaker 1: meets with sweet austere composure. Thus replied, offspring of Heaven
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  Speaker 1: and Earth and all Earth's Lord, that such an enemy
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  Speaker 1: we have who seeks our ruin, both by THEE inform'd
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  Speaker 1: thy learn and from the parting angel overheard as in
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  Speaker 1: a shady nook, I stood behind, just then returned at
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  Speaker 1: shut of evening flowers. But that thou shouldst my firmness
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  Speaker 1: therefore doubt to God or THEE, because we have a
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  Speaker 1: foe may tempt it. I expected not to hear his violence.
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  Speaker 1: Thou fear'st not being such as we not capable of
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  Speaker 1: death or pain, can either not receive or can repel
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  Speaker 1: his fraud. Is then thy fear, which plain infers thy
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  Speaker 1: equal fear, that my firm faith and love can by
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  Speaker 1: his fraud be shaken or seduc'd thoughts which how found
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  Speaker 1: they harbor in thy breast Adam misthought of her to
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  Speaker 1: THEE so dear to whom with the healing words. Adam replied,
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  Speaker 1: daughter of God and man immortal Eve. For such thou
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  Speaker 1: art from sin and blame entire, not diffident of THEE.
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  Speaker 1: Do I dissuade thy absence from my sight, but to
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  Speaker 1: avoid the attempt itself intended by our foe. For he
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  Speaker 1: who tempts, though in vain, at least asperses the tempted
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  Speaker 1: with dishonor foul supposed not incorruptible of faith, not proof
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  Speaker 1: against temptation, Thou thyself, with scorn and anger, wouldst resent
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  Speaker 1: the offered wrong, though ineffectual, found misdeem Not then if
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  Speaker 1: such affront I labor to avert from THEE alone, which
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  Speaker 1: on us both at once. The enemy, though bold, will
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  Speaker 1: hardly dare, or daring first on me, the assault shall light.
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  Speaker 1: Nor thou his malice and false guile contemn subtle. He
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  Speaker 1: needs must be, who could seduce angels, nor think superfluous others,
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  Speaker 1: aid I, from the influence of thy looks, receive access
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  Speaker 1: in every virtue in thy sight. More wise more watchful, stronger,
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  Speaker 1: if need were of outward strength, while shame thou looking
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  Speaker 1: on shame, to be overcome or overreached with utmost vigor,
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  Speaker 1: rays and raised unite. Why shouldst not thou like sense
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  Speaker 1: within thee feel when I am present and thy trial,
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  Speaker 1: choose with me best witness of thy virtue tried, so
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  Speaker 1: spake domestic atom in his care and matrimonial love. But Eve,
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  Speaker 1: who thought less, attributed to her faith sincere. Thus her
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  Speaker 1: reply with accent sweet renewed. If this be our condition?
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  Speaker 1: Thus to dwell in narrow circuits straightened by a foe,
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  Speaker 1: subtle or violent, we not indued single with like defense
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  Speaker 1: wherever met? How are we happy still in fear of harm?
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  Speaker 1: But harm precedes not sin. Only our foe attempting affronts
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  Speaker 1: us with his foul esteem of our integrity. His foul
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  Speaker 1: esteem sticks no dishonor on our front, but turns foul
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  Speaker 1: on himself. Then, wherefore, shunned or feared by us, who
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  Speaker 1: rather double honor gain from his surmise proved false, find
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  Speaker 1: peace within favor from heaven our witness from the event,
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  Speaker 1: And what is faith love virtue unassayed alone without exterior
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  Speaker 1: help sustained. Let us not then suspect our happy state
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  Speaker 1: left so imperfect by the maker wise as not secure
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  Speaker 1: to single or combined. Frail is our happiness. If this
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  Speaker 1: be so, and Eden were no Eden thus exposed to
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  Speaker 1: whom thus Adam fervently replied, O, woman, best are all
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  Speaker 1: things as the will of God ordained them his creating hand.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing imperfect or deficient left of all that he created,
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  Speaker 1: much less man or aught that might his happy state secure,
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  Speaker 1: secure from outward force within himself. The danger lies yet
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  Speaker 1: lies within his power. Against his will. He can receive
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  Speaker 1: no harm. But God left free the will for what
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  Speaker 1: obeys reason is free, and reason he made right. But
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  Speaker 1: bid her well beware and still erect lest by some
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  Speaker 1: fair appearing good. Surprised, she dictate false and misinform the
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  Speaker 1: will to do what God expressly hath forbid. Not then mistrust,
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  Speaker 1: but tender love enjoins that I should mind thee oft
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  Speaker 1: and mind thou me firm. We subsist, yet possible to swerve,
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  Speaker 1: since reason not impossibly may meet some specious object by
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  Speaker 1: the foe, suborned and fall into deception, unaware, not keeping
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  Speaker 1: strictest watch, as she was warned, seek not temptation, then
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  Speaker 1: which to avoid were better and most likely if from
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  Speaker 1: me thou sever not trial will come unsought, which thou
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  Speaker 1: approve thy constancy. Approve first thy obedience the other who
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  Speaker 1: can know, not seeing thee attempted, who attest. But if
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  Speaker 1: thou think trial unsought, may find us both securer than
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  Speaker 1: thus warned, Thou seemest go for thy stay not free
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  Speaker 1: absents thee. More go in thy native innocence. Rely on
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  Speaker 1: what thou hast of virtue summon all for God towards
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  Speaker 1: thee hath done his part. Do thine, so spake the
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  Speaker 1: patriarch of mankind. But Eve persisted yet submiss though last
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  Speaker 1: replied with thy permission. Then, and thus forewarned, chiefly by
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  Speaker 1: what thy own last reasoning words touched only that our trial,
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  Speaker 1: when least sought, may find us both perhaps far less
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  Speaker 1: prepared the willinger I go, nor much expect a foe,
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  Speaker 1: so proud will first the weaker seek, so bent the
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  Speaker 1: more shall shame him. His repulse. Thus, saying from her
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  Speaker 1: husband's hand, her hand soft, she withdrew, and like a
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  Speaker 1: wood nymph light oread or dryad Or of Delia's train
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  Speaker 1: betook her to the groves. But Delia's self in gait, surpassed,
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  Speaker 1: and goddess like deport though not as she with bow
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  Speaker 1: and quiver, armed, but with such gardening tools as art
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  Speaker 1: yet rude, guiltless of fire had formed, or angels brought
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  Speaker 1: to Palli's or Pomona thus adorned Likeli as she seemed
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  Speaker 1: Pomona when she fled vertumnus or to Ceres in her prime,
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  Speaker 1: Yet Virgin of Proserpina from jove her long with ardent look,
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  Speaker 1: his eye pursued, delighted but desiring more her stay oft
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  Speaker 1: he to her his charge of quick return, repeated she
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  Speaker 1: to him as oft engaged to be returned by noon,
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  Speaker 1: amid the bower and all things in best order to
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  Speaker 1: invite noontide repast or afternoon's repose. O much deceived, much failing,
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  Speaker 1: hapless eve of thy presumed return event perverse, Thou never
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  Speaker 1: from that hour in paradise foundst either sweet repast or
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  Speaker 1: sound repose. Such ambush hid among sweet flos, flowers and shades,
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  Speaker 1: waited with hellish rancor imminent to intercept thy way or
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  Speaker 1: send thee back, despoil'd of innocence, of faith, of bliss.
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  Speaker 1: For now and since the break of dawn, the fiend
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  Speaker 1: mere serpent in appearance forth was come, and on his
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  Speaker 1: quest where likeliest he might find the only two of mankind.
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  Speaker 1: But in them the whole included race, his purposed prey.
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  Speaker 1: In bower and field he sought where any tuft of
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  Speaker 1: grove or garden plot more pleasant lay their tendons or plantation,
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  Speaker 1: for delight by fountain or by shady rivulet. He sought
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  Speaker 1: them both, but wished his hap might find Eve separate.
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  Speaker 1: He wished, but not with hope of what, so seldom chanced.
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  Speaker 1: When to his wish, beyond his hope, Eve separate, he spies,
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  Speaker 1: veiled in a cloud of fragrance, where she stood half spied,
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  Speaker 1: so thick the roses bushing round about her glowed oft,
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  Speaker 1: stooping to support each flower of slender stock, whose head,
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  Speaker 1: though gay carnation, purple azure, or specked with gold, hung drooping,
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  Speaker 1: unsustained them. She up stays gently with myrtle band mindless,
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  Speaker 1: the while herself, though fairest, unsupported flower from her best props.
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  Speaker 1: So far, and storms so nigh nearer he drew, and
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  Speaker 1: many a walk traversed of statelest covert cedar pine or palm,
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  Speaker 1: then voluble and bold, now hid now seen among thick
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  Speaker 1: woven arboreates and flowers embroidered on each bank. The hand
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  Speaker 1: of Eve spot more delicious than those gardens feigned or
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  Speaker 1: of revived Adonis, were renowned alcinous host of old Laerti's son,
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  Speaker 1: or that not mystic, where the sapient king held dalliance
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  Speaker 1: with his fair Egyptian spouse. Much he the place admired
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  Speaker 1: the person more as one who long in populous city pent,
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  Speaker 1: where houses thick and sewers annoy the air. Forth issuing
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  Speaker 1: on a summer's morn to wreathe among the pleasant villages
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  Speaker 1: and farms, adjoined from each thing met conceives delight the
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  Speaker 1: smell of grain or teaded grass, or kind or dairy,
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  Speaker 1: each rural sight, each rural sound, if chance, with nymph
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  Speaker 1: like step, fair Virgin passed what pleasing seemed for her
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  Speaker 1: now pleases more, she most, and in her look sums
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  Speaker 1: all delight. Such pleasure took the serpent to behold this
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  Speaker 1: flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve, thus early, thus alone,
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  Speaker 1: her heavenly form, angelic, but more soft and feminine, Her
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  Speaker 1: graceful innocence. Her every air of gesture or least action,
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  Speaker 1: overawed his malice, and with rapid, sweet bereath'd, his fierceness
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  Speaker 1: of the fierce intended brought that space. The evil one abstracted,
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  Speaker 1: stood from his own evil, and for the time remained
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  Speaker 1: stupidly good of enmity, disarmed of guile, of hate, of envy,
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  Speaker 1: of revenge. But the hot hell that always in him burns,
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  Speaker 1: though in mid heaven soon ended his delight and tortures
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  Speaker 1: him now more. The more he sees of pleasure not
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  Speaker 1: for him ordain'd. Then soon fierce hate he recollects, and
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  Speaker 1: all his thoughts of mischief gratulating thus excites thoughts whither
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  Speaker 1: have ye led me with what sweet compulsion thus transported?
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  Speaker 1: To forget what hither brought us hate, not love nor
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  Speaker 1: hope of paradise for hell, hope here to taste of pleasure,
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  Speaker 1: but all pleasure to destroy, save what is in destroying
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  Speaker 1: other joy to me is lost. Then let me not
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  Speaker 1: let pass occasion, which now smiles Behold alone the woman
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  Speaker 1: opportune to all attempts her husband, For I view far round,
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  Speaker 1: not nigh, whose higher intellectual more I shun, and strength
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  Speaker 1: of courage, haughty and of limb heroic built, though of
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  Speaker 1: terrestrial mold foe not informidable exempt from wound, I not
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  Speaker 1: so much hath held de baste and pain enfeebled me
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  Speaker 1: to what I was in heaven. She fair, divinely, fair,
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  Speaker 1: fit love for God's not terrible, though terror be in
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  Speaker 1: love and beauty not approached by stronger hate, hate stronger
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  Speaker 1: under show of love, well feigned the way which to
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  Speaker 1: her ruin now I tend so spake the enemy of
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  Speaker 1: mankind enclosed in serpent inmate bad and toward Eve, addressed
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  Speaker 1: his way, not with indented wave prone on the ground
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  Speaker 1: as since, but on his rear circular base of rising folds,
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  Speaker 1: that tower'd fold above fold, a surging maze, his head
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  Speaker 1: crested aloft and carbuncle, his eyes with burnished neck of
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  Speaker 1: verdant gold, erect amidst his circling spires, that on the
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  Speaker 1: grass floated redundant. Pleasing was his shape and lovely, never
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  Speaker 1: sense of serpent kind lovelier. Not those that in Illyria
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  Speaker 1: changed Hermione and Cadmus, or the god in Epidaurus, nor
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  Speaker 1: to which transformed Ammonian, Jove or Capitaline was seen He
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  Speaker 1: with Olympius, this with her who bore Shipio the height
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  Speaker 1: of Rome with tract oblique at first as one who
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  Speaker 1: sought access but feared to interrupt Sidelong, He works his way.
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  Speaker 1: End of Book eight, Part one,