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012 - Book Six Part 2 · Paradise Lost

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  Speaker 1: Paradise Lost by John Milton, Book six, Part two, Now Knight,
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  Speaker 1: her course began and over heaven inducing darkness, grateful truce
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  Speaker 1: imposed and silence on the odious din of war under
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  Speaker 1: her cloudy covert, both retired victor and vanquished on the
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  Speaker 1: founton field, Michael and his angels, prevalent in camping, placed
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  Speaker 1: in guard, their watches round Cherubic, waving fires on other parts. Satan,
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  Speaker 1: with his rebellious disappeared far in the dark, dislodged and
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  Speaker 1: void of rest. His potentates to council called by night,
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  Speaker 1: and in the midst thus undismayed began. Oh now in danger,
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  Speaker 1: try now known in arms, not to be overpower'd companions,
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  Speaker 1: dear found worthy, not of liberty alone to mean pretense,
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  Speaker 1: but what we more affect, honor, dominion, glory, and renown.
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  Speaker 1: Who have sustain'd one day in doubtful fight, And if
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  Speaker 1: one day, why not eternal days? What Heav'n's lord had
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  Speaker 1: powerfullest to send against us from about his throne, and
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  Speaker 1: judg'd sufficient to subdue us to his will, but proves
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  Speaker 1: not so then fallible. It seems of future we may
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  Speaker 1: deem him, though till now omniscient thought true is less
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  Speaker 1: firmly arm'd. Some disadvantage we endur'd, and pain till now
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  Speaker 1: not known, but known as soon contemn'd. Since now we
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  Speaker 1: find this our imperial form, incapable of mortal injury, imperishable,
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  Speaker 1: and though pierc'd with wounds soon closing, and by native
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  Speaker 1: vigor heal'd of evil then so small as easy, think
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  Speaker 1: the remedy perhaps more valid, arms, weapons, more violent when
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  Speaker 1: next we meet, may serve to better us and worse
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  Speaker 1: our foes, or equal What between us made the odds
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  Speaker 1: in nature none if other hidden cause left them superior,
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  Speaker 1: While we can preserve unhurt our minds, an understanding sound,
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  Speaker 1: due search and consultation will disclose. He sat, and in
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  Speaker 1: the assembly next upstood nisrock of Principalities, the prime as one.
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  Speaker 1: He stood escaped from cruel fight, sore, toiled his riven
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  Speaker 1: arms to havoc un and cloudian aspect, thus answering spake
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  Speaker 1: deliverer from new lords leader to free enjoyment of our
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  Speaker 1: right as gods. Yet hard for gods, and too unequal
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  Speaker 1: work we find against unequal arms, to fight in pain
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  Speaker 1: against unpained impassive, from which evil ruin must needs ensue
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  Speaker 1: for what avails valor or strength, though matchless. Quell'd with pain,
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  Speaker 1: which all subdues and makes remiss the hands of mightiest
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  Speaker 1: sense of pleasure, we may well spare out of life, perhaps,
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  Speaker 1: and not repine, but live content, which is the calmest life.
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  Speaker 1: But pain is perfect misery, the worst of evils, and
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  Speaker 1: excessive overturns all patience. He who therefore can invent with
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  Speaker 1: what more forcible we may offend our yet unwounded enemies,
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  Speaker 1: or arm ourselves with like defense. To me deserves no
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  Speaker 1: less than for deliverance what we owe. Whereto with look composed,
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  Speaker 1: Satan replied, not uninvented that which thou aright beliefs so
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  Speaker 1: main to our success. I bring which of us who
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  Speaker 1: beholds the bright surface of this ethereous mold whereon we
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  Speaker 1: stand this continent of spacious heaven, adorn'd with plant, fruit, flower,
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  Speaker 1: ambrosial gems, and gold, whose eye so superficially surveys these
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  Speaker 1: things as not to mind. From whence they grow deep
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  Speaker 1: under ground materials, dark and crude, of spirituous and fiery spume,
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  Speaker 1: till touch'd with Heaven's ray, and temper'd they shoot forth,
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  Speaker 1: so beauteous opening to the ambient light. These in their
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  Speaker 1: dark nativity the deep shall yield us pregnant with infernal flame,
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  Speaker 1: which into hallow engines, long and round, thick, rammed at
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  Speaker 1: thuather bore, with touch of fire, dilated and infuriate, shall
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  Speaker 1: send forth from far, with thundering noise, among our foes,
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  Speaker 1: such implements of mischief as shall dash to pieces and
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  Speaker 1: overwhelm whatever stands adverse, that they shall fear. We have
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  Speaker 1: disarmed the thunderer of his only dreaded bolt. Nor long
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  Speaker 1: shall be our labor. Yet ere dawn affect shall end
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  Speaker 1: our wish. Meanwhile, revive, abandon fear to strength, and counsel
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  Speaker 1: join'd think nothing hard, much less to be despaired. He ended,
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  Speaker 1: and his words their drooping cheer enlighten'd, and their languished
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  Speaker 1: hope revived the invention all admired, and each how he
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  Speaker 1: to be then ventor missed, So easy it seem'd once found,
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  Speaker 1: which yet unfound, most would have thought impossible. Yet haply
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  Speaker 1: of thy race. In future days, if malice should abound,
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  Speaker 1: some one intent on mischief, or inspir'd with devilish machination,
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  Speaker 1: might devise like instrument to plague the sons of men,
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  Speaker 1: for sin on war and mutual slaughter. Bent forthwith from
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  Speaker 1: counsel to the work, they flew, none arguing stood, innumerable
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  Speaker 1: hands were ready. In a moment. Up they turn'd wide
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  Speaker 1: the celestial soil, and saw beneath the originals of nature
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  Speaker 1: in their crude conception, sulfurous and nitrous foam they found.
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  Speaker 1: They mingled, and with subtle art concocted and adjusted, they
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  Speaker 1: reduced to blackest grain, and into store conveyed part hidden
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  Speaker 1: veins digg'd up. Nor hath this earth entrails unlike of
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  Speaker 1: mineral and stone, whereof to found their engines and their
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  Speaker 1: balls of missive ruin part incentive reed provide pernicious with
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  Speaker 1: one touch to fire, so all ere day spring under
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  Speaker 1: conscious night secret they finish'd, and in order set with
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  Speaker 1: silent circumspection, unespied. Now when fair morn orient in heav'n
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  Speaker 1: appear'd up rose the victor angels and to arms. The
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  Speaker 1: mattin trumpets sung in arms. They stood of golden panople.
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  Speaker 1: Refulgent host soon banded others from the dawning hills look'd round,
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  Speaker 1: and scouts each coast, light arm'd scour each quarter to
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  Speaker 1: descry the distant foe, where lodg'd, or whither fled, or
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  Speaker 1: if for fight in motion or in alt him. Soon
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  Speaker 1: they met under spread ensigns, moving nigh in slow but
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  Speaker 1: firm battalion back with speediest sail. Zephiel of Cherubim, the
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  Speaker 1: swiftest wing came flying and in mid air aloud. Thus
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  Speaker 1: cried arm warriors, arm for fight the foe at hand,
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  Speaker 1: whom fled we thought will save us long pursuit this day,
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  Speaker 1: fear not his flight, So thick a cloud he comes,
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  Speaker 1: and settled in his face, I see sad resolution and secure.
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  Speaker 1: Let each his adamantine coat gird well, and each fit
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  Speaker 1: well his helm, grip fast, his orbed shield borne even
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  Speaker 1: or high. For this day will pour down. If I
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  Speaker 1: conjecture aught no drizzling shower, but rattling storm of arrows
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  Speaker 1: barb'd with fire. So warn'd he them aware themselves, and
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  Speaker 1: soon in order quit of all impediment instant without disturb'd,
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  Speaker 1: they took alarm and onward move embattl'd when behold not
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  Speaker 1: distant far with heavy pace, the foe approaching, gross and
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  Speaker 1: huge in hollow cube training his devilish enginery, impal'd on
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  Speaker 1: every side, with shadowing squadrons deep to hide the fraud.
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  Speaker 1: At interview, both stood awhile, but suddenly at head appear'd satan,
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  Speaker 1: and thus was heard commanding loud, vanguard to right and
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  Speaker 1: left the front unfold, that all may see who hate us,
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  Speaker 1: how we seek peace and composure, and with open breast
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  Speaker 1: stand ready to receive them if they like our overture,
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  Speaker 1: and turn not back perverse, but that I doubt, however,
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  Speaker 1: witness heav'n heaven. Witness thou Anon. While we discharge freely
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  Speaker 1: our part ye who appointed, stand, do as you have
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  Speaker 1: in charge, and briefly touch what we propound and loud
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  Speaker 1: that all may hear. So scoffing in ambiguous words, he
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  Speaker 1: scarce had ended when to right and left the front divided,
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  Speaker 1: and to either flank retir'd, which to our eyes discover'd
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  Speaker 1: new and strange a triple mounted row of pillars laid
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  Speaker 1: on wheels for like to pillars. Most they seem'd or hollow'd,
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  Speaker 1: bodies made of oak or fir, with branches lopped in wood,
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  Speaker 1: or mountain felled brass, iron, stony mold, had not their mouths,
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  Speaker 1: with hideous orifice gaped on us, wide portending hollow truce.
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  Speaker 1: At each behind a seraph stood, and in his hand
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  Speaker 1: a reed stood waving tipp'd with fire, While we, suspense collected,
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  Speaker 1: stood within our thoughts, amused, not long for sudden. All
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  Speaker 1: at once their reeds put forth, and to a narrow
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  Speaker 1: vent applied with nicest touch, immediate in a flame, but
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  Speaker 1: soon obscured with smoke. All heaven appeared from those deep
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  Speaker 1: throated engine's belt, whose roar emboweled with outrageous noise, The
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  Speaker 1: air and all her entrails tore, disgorging foul. Their devilish
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  Speaker 1: glut chained thunderbolts and hail of iron globes, which on
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  Speaker 1: the victor host leveled with such impetuous fury smote that
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  Speaker 1: whom they hit none on their feet, might stand, though
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  Speaker 1: standing else as rocks. But down they fell. By thousands.
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  Speaker 1: Angel on archangel rolled the sooner, for their arms unarmed,
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  Speaker 1: they might have easily his spirits evaded swift by quick
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  Speaker 1: contraction or remove. But now foul dissipation followed and forced rout,
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  Speaker 1: nor served it to relax their serried files. What should
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  Speaker 1: they do? If on they rushed, repulse, repeated and indecent
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  Speaker 1: overthrow doubled, would render them yet more despised, and to
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  Speaker 1: their foes of laughter, For in view stood rank of seraphim,
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  Speaker 1: another row imposture to displode their second tire of thunder back.
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  Speaker 1: Defeated to return, they worse, abhorred Satan beheld their plight,
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  Speaker 1: and to his mates, thus in derision, call'd o friends,
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  Speaker 1: Why come not on these victors proud ere while they
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  Speaker 1: fierce were coming? And when we to entertain them fair
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  Speaker 1: with open front and breast, what could we more propounded
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  Speaker 1: terms of composition straight they changed their minds, flew off
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  Speaker 1: and into strange vagaries, fell as they would dance. Yet
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  Speaker 1: for a dance they seemed somewhat extravagant and wild, perhaps
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  Speaker 1: for joy of offered peace. But I suppose if our
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  Speaker 1: proposals once again were heard, we should compel them to
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  Speaker 1: a quick result, to whom thus balliol in like game
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  Speaker 1: some mood leader. The terms we sent were terms of weight,
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  Speaker 1: of hard contents, and full of force, urged home such
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  Speaker 1: as we might perceive, amused them all and stumbled. Many
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  Speaker 1: who received them right had need from head to foot
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  Speaker 1: well understand not understood this gift they have. Besides, they
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  Speaker 1: show us when our foes walk not upright. So they,
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  Speaker 1: among themselves, in pleasant veins, stood scoffing, hyphened in their thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: beyond all doubt of victory eternal might to match with
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  Speaker 1: their inventions, they presumed so easy, and of his thunder
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  Speaker 1: made of scorn, and all his host derided. While they
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  Speaker 1: stood awhile in trouble. But they stood not long. Rage
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  Speaker 1: prompted them at length, and found them arms against such
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  Speaker 1: hellish mischief, fit to oppose. Forthwith behold the excellence the
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  Speaker 1: power which God hath in his mighty angels. Placed their
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  Speaker 1: arms away they threw, and to the hills, for earth
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  Speaker 1: hath this variety from Heaven of pleasures, situate in hill
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  Speaker 1: and dale light as the lightning glimpse. They ran. They
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  Speaker 1: flew from their foundations, loosening to and fro. They plucked
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  Speaker 1: the seated hills with all their load, rocks, waters, woods,
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  Speaker 1: and by the shaggy tops uplifting bore them in their hands.
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  Speaker 1: A maze be sure, and terror seized the rebel host
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  Speaker 1: when coming towards them, so dread they saw the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the mountains upward turned till on those cursed engines
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  Speaker 1: triple row, they saw them whelmed, and all their confidence
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  Speaker 1: under the weight of mountains buried deep themselves invaded next
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  Speaker 1: and on them their heads main promontories flung, which in
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  Speaker 1: the air came shadowing and oppressed whole legions armed, their
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  Speaker 1: armor helped their harm, crushed in and bruised into their substance,
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  Speaker 1: pent which wrought them pain, implacable, and many a dolorous groan,
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  Speaker 1: long struggling underneath ere they could wind out of such prison,
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  Speaker 1: though spirits of purest light, purest at first, now gross
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  Speaker 1: by sinning grown the rest in imitation to like arms
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  Speaker 1: betook them, and the neighboring hills uptore so hills amid
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  Speaker 1: the air, encountered hills hurled to and fro with jaculation,
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  Speaker 1: dire that under ground they fought in dismal shade, infernal noise.
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  Speaker 1: War seem'd a civil game to this uproar, horrid confusion
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  Speaker 1: heaped upon confusion rose, and now all Heav'n had gone
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  Speaker 1: to rack with ruin overspread. Had not Almighty Father, where
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  Speaker 1: he sits shrined in his sanctuary of Heaven, secure consulting
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  Speaker 1: on the sum of things, foreseen this tumult and permitted
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  Speaker 1: all advis'd that his great purpose he might so fulfill
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  Speaker 1: to honor his anointed son, avenged upon his enemies, and
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  Speaker 1: to declare all power on him transferred. Whence to his son,
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  Speaker 1: the assessor of his throne. He thus began effulgence of
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  Speaker 1: my glory, son, beloved son, in whose face invisible is
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  Speaker 1: beheld visibly? What by deity I am? And in whose hand?
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  Speaker 1: What by decree I do? Second omnipotence, two days are past,
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  Speaker 1: two days as we compute the days of Heav'n. Since
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  Speaker 1: Michael and his powers went forth to tame these disobedient
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  Speaker 1: sore hath been their fight as likeliest was when two
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  Speaker 1: such foes met arm'd for to themselves I left them,
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  Speaker 1: and thou know'st equal in their creation they were form'd
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  Speaker 1: save what sin hath impair'd, which yet hath wrought insensibly,
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  Speaker 1: for I suspend their doom. Whence, in perpetual fight they
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  Speaker 1: needs must last endless, and no solution will be found.
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  Speaker 1: War wearied hath perform'd what war can do, and to
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  Speaker 1: disorder'd rage, let loose the reins with mountains, as with
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  Speaker 1: weapons arm'd, which makes wild work in Heav'n and dangerous
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  Speaker 1: to the main. Two days are therefore past. The third
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  Speaker 1: is thine for THEE. I have ordain'd it, and thus
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  Speaker 1: far have suffer'd, that the glory may be Thine of
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  Speaker 1: ending this great war, since none but thou can end
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  Speaker 1: it into THEE such virtue and grace immense I have
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  Speaker 1: transfus'd that all may know, in Heav'n and Hell, thy
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  Speaker 1: power above compare, and this perverse commotion governed thus to
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  Speaker 1: manifest THEE worthiest to be heir of all things, to
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  Speaker 1: be heir and to be king. By sacred unction thy
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  Speaker 1: deserv'd right. Go, Then, thou, mightiest, in thy father's might,
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  Speaker 1: Ascend my chariot, guide the rapid wheels that shake Heaven's basis.
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  Speaker 1: Bring forth all my war, my bow, and thunder my
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  Speaker 1: almighty arms. Gird on and soard upon thy puissant thigh.
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  Speaker 1: Pursue these sons of darkness, drive them out from all
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  Speaker 1: Heaven's bounds into thee uttered deep there let them learn
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  Speaker 1: as likes them to despise God and Messiah his anointed king.
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  Speaker 1: He said, and on his son with rays direct shone
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  Speaker 1: full he all his father full express'd ineffably into his
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  Speaker 1: face receiv'd. And thus the filial Godhead answering spake, O Father,
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  Speaker 1: O supreme of heav'nly thrones first, highest, holiest best. Thou
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  Speaker 1: always seek'st to glorify thy son, I always THEE as
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  Speaker 1: is most just this I my glory, account, my exaltation,
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  Speaker 1: and my whole delight that thou in me well pleas'd
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  Speaker 1: decla'st thy will fulfill'd, which to fulfill is all my
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  Speaker 1: bliss scepter and power thy giving, I assume, and gladlier
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  Speaker 1: shall resign when in the end thou shalt be all
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  Speaker 1: in all and I in THEE forever and in me
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  Speaker 1: all whom thou lov'st, but whom thou hatest I hate
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  Speaker 1: and can put on thy terrors, as I put thy
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  Speaker 1: mildness on image of THEE in all things, and shall
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  Speaker 1: soon arm'd with thy might rid heav'n of these rebell'd
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  Speaker 1: to their prepar'd ill mansion, driven down to chains of
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  Speaker 1: darkness and the undying worm, that from thy just obedience
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  Speaker 1: could revolt whom to obey is happiness entire. Then shall
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  Speaker 1: thy saints unmix'd, and from them pure far separate, circling
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  Speaker 1: thy holy mount unfeign'd, haigle lujahs to thee, seeing hymns
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  Speaker 1: of high praise, and I among them chief. So said
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  Speaker 1: he o'er, his scepter bowing, rose from the right hand
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  Speaker 1: of Glory where he sate, and the third sacred morn
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  Speaker 1: began to shine, dawning through heav'n forth rush'd with whirlwind sound,
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  Speaker 1: the chariot of paternal deity, flashing thick flames. Weeal within
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  Speaker 1: weeal undrawn itself instinct with spirit, but convoyed by four
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  Speaker 1: cherubic shapes, four faces e which had wondrous as with stars.
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  Speaker 1: Their bodies all and wings were set with eyes, with eyes,
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  Speaker 1: the wheels of beryl and careering fires between over their
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  Speaker 1: heads a crystal firmament, whereon a sapphire throne, inlaid with
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  Speaker 1: pure amber and colors of the showy arch. He in
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  Speaker 1: celestial panoply, all armed of radiant urim work, divinely wrought,
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  Speaker 1: ascended at his right hand Victory sate eagle winged. Beside
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  Speaker 1: him hung his bow and quiver with three bolted thunder stored,
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  Speaker 1: and from about him fierce effusion rolled of smoke and
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  Speaker 1: bickering flame and sparkles. Dire attended with ten thousand thousand saints.
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  Speaker 1: He onward came far off his coming shone and twenty
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  Speaker 1: thousand I their number heard chariots of God, half on
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  Speaker 1: each hand, were seen. He on the wings of cherub
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  Speaker 1: Rode sublime, on the crystalline sky in sapphire, thron'd illustrious
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  Speaker 1: far and wide, but by his own first seen then
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  Speaker 1: unexpected joy surpris'd when the great ensign of Messiah blaz'd
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  Speaker 1: aloft by angels, born his sign in heav'n, under whose
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  Speaker 1: conduct Michael soon reduced. His army circumfus'd on either wing
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  Speaker 1: under their head, embodied all in one before him, power divine,
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  Speaker 1: his way, prepar'd at his command, the uprooted hills retir'd
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  Speaker 1: each to his place. They heard his voice and went
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  Speaker 1: obsequious heaven, his wonted face renewed, and with fresh florets,
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  Speaker 1: Hill and valley smil'd. This saw his hapless foes, but
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  Speaker 1: stood abdur'd and to rebellious fight rallied their powers, insensate hope,
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  Speaker 1: conceiving from despair in heav'nly spirits. Could such perverseness dwell.
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  Speaker 1: But to convince the proud, what signs avail or wonders
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  Speaker 1: moved the abdura to relent? They harden'd more by what
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  Speaker 1: might most reclaim? Grieving to see his glory at the sight,
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  Speaker 1: took envy, and aspiring to his height, stood re embattl'd
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  Speaker 1: fierce by force or fraud, weening to prosper and at
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  Speaker 1: length prevail against God and Messiah, or to fall in
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  Speaker 1: universal ruin last and now to final battle drew, disdaining
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  Speaker 1: flight or faint retreat. When the Great Son of God,
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  Speaker 1: to all his host on either hand, thus spake stand
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  Speaker 1: still in bright array, Ye saints, here stand, ye angels,
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  Speaker 1: arm'd this day from battle, rest faithful, hath been your
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  Speaker 1: warfare and of God accepted fearless in his righteous cause.
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  Speaker 1: And as ye have receiv'd, so have ye done invincibly.
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  Speaker 1: But of this cursed crew, the punishment to other hand
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  Speaker 1: belongs vengeances his or whose he soul appoints number to
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  Speaker 1: this day's work is not ordain'd nor multitude stand only
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  Speaker 1: and behold God's indignation on these godless pour'd by me,
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  Speaker 1: not you, but me. They have despis'd, yet envied against
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  Speaker 1: me is all their rage. Because the Father to whom
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  Speaker 1: in heav'n supreme kingdom and power and glory appertains, hath
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  Speaker 1: honor'd me according to his will. Therefore to me their
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  Speaker 1: doom he hath assign'd that they may have their wish
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  Speaker 1: to try with me in battle, which the stronger proves
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  Speaker 1: they all or I alone against them, Since by strength
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  Speaker 1: they measure all of other excellence not emulous, nor care
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  Speaker 1: who them excels, nor other strife with them, do I vouchsafe.
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  Speaker 1: So spake the sun and into terror chang'd his countenance,
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  Speaker 1: too severe to be beheld, and full of wrath, bent
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  Speaker 1: on his enemies. At once, the four spread out their
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  Speaker 1: starry wings with dreadful shade, contiguous, and the orbs of
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  Speaker 1: his fierce chariot roll'd as with the sound of torrent
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  Speaker 1: floods or of a numerous host. He on his impious
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  Speaker 1: foes right onward, drove gloomy as night under his burning wheels.
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  Speaker 1: The steadfast Empyrean shook throughout all but the throne itself
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  Speaker 1: of God full soon among them he arriv'd in his
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  Speaker 1: right hand, grasping ten thousand thunders, which he sent before them,
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  Speaker 1: such as in their souls. In fix'd plagues, they astonish'd
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  Speaker 1: all resistance, lost, all courage, down, their idle weapons, dropp'd
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  Speaker 1: or shields and helms and helmed heads. He rode of
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  Speaker 1: thrones and mighty seraphim, prostrate that wish'd the MoU mountains
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  Speaker 1: now might be again thrown on them as a shelter
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  Speaker 1: from his eyre, nor less on either side. Tempestuous fell
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  Speaker 1: his arrows from the fourfold visag'd fore distinct with eyes,
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  Speaker 1: and from the living wheels, distinct alike, with multitude of eyes.
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  Speaker 1: One spirit in them ruled, and every eye glared lightning,
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  Speaker 1: and shot forth pernicious fire. Among the accursed, that withered
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  Speaker 1: all their strength and of their wonted vigor, left them drain'd, exhausted, spiritless, afflicted,
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  Speaker 1: fallen yet half his strength, he put not forth but
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  Speaker 1: check'd his thunder in mid volley, for he meant not
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  Speaker 1: to destroy, but root them out of heaven. The overthrown
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  Speaker 1: he rais'd, and as a herd of goats or timorous
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  Speaker 1: flock together thronged drove them before him, thunder struck, pursued
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  Speaker 1: with terrors and with furies, to the bounds and crystal
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  Speaker 1: wall of Heaven, which, opening wide, rolled inward, and a
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  Speaker 1: spaceacious gap disclosed into the wasteful deep. The monstrous sight
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  Speaker 1: struck them with horror backward, but far worse urged them
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  Speaker 1: behind headlong themselves. They threw down from the verge of Heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Eternal wrath burnt after them to the bottomless pit. Hell
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  Speaker 1: heard the unsufferable noise. Hell saw Heaven ruining from Heaven
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  Speaker 1: and would have fled affrighted, but strict fate had cast
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  Speaker 1: too deep her dark foundations, and too fast had bound.
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  Speaker 1: Nine days they fell confounded, Chaos roared, and felt tenfold
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  Speaker 1: confusion in their fall through his wild anarchy so huge
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  Speaker 1: a rout encumbered him with ruin. Hell at last, Yawning
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  Speaker 1: received them whole, and on them closed Hell. Their fit habitation,
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  Speaker 1: fraught with fire, unquenchable, the house of woe and pain disburdened.
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  Speaker 1: Heaven rejoiced and soon repaired her mural breach, returning whence
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  Speaker 1: roll'd sole victor from the expulsion of his foes, Messiah
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  Speaker 1: his triumphal chariot turn'd to meet him. All his saints,
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  Speaker 1: who silence stood eye witness of his almighty acts. With
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  Speaker 1: jubilee advanced, and as they went shaded with branching palm,
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  Speaker 1: each order bright sung triumph, and him sung victorious, King, son,
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  Speaker 1: heire and Lord to him dominion given worthiest to reign.
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  Speaker 1: He celebrated, rode triumphant through mid Heav'n into the courts
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  Speaker 1: and temple of his mighty father, throned on high, who
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  Speaker 1: into glory him receiv'd, where now he sits at the
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  Speaker 1: right hand of bliss, thus measuring things in Heav'n by
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  Speaker 1: things on earth at thy request, and that thou mayest
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  Speaker 1: beware by what is past to thee, I have revealed
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  Speaker 1: what might else to human race been hid, the discord
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  Speaker 1: which befell and war in Heav'n among the angelic powers,
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  Speaker 1: and the deep fall of those too high aspiring who
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  Speaker 1: rebelled with satan. He who envies now thy state, who
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  Speaker 1: now is plotting how he may seduce thee also from
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  Speaker 1: obedience that with him bereav'd of happiness, thou mayst partake
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  Speaker 1: his punishment eternal misery, which would be all his solace
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  Speaker 1: and revenge. As a despite done against the most high.
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  Speaker 1: THEE once to gain companion of his woe. But listen
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  Speaker 1: not to his temptations. Warn thy weaker. Let it profit
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  Speaker 1: THEE to have heard, by terrible example the reward of disobedience.
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  Speaker 1: Firm they might have stood, yet fell, Remember, and fear
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  Speaker 1: to transgress. End of Book six, Part two,