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02 - Paradise Lost - John Milton · Philosophy and Faith

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Speaker 1: Book eight, Part two. As when a ship by skillful
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Speaker 1: steersmen wrought nigh river's mouth or foreland, where the wind
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Speaker 1: veers oft as oft so steers and shifts her sail,
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Speaker 1: so varied he and of his tortuous train, curled many
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Speaker 1: a wanton wreath in sight of Eve to lure her eye.
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Speaker 1: She busied, heard the sound of rustling leaves, but minded not,
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Speaker 1: as used to such disport before her through the field
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Speaker 1: from every beast, more duteous at her call than at
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Speaker 1: circean call the herd disguised, he bolder, now uncalled before
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Speaker 1: her stood, but as in gaze admiring oft, he bowed
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Speaker 1: his turret crest and sleek enameled neck, fawning, and licked
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Speaker 1: the ground whereon she trod. His gentle, dumb expression turned
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Speaker 1: at length the eye of Eve to mark his play. He,
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Speaker 1: glad of her attention, gained with serpent tongue organic or
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Speaker 1: impulse of vocal air. His fraudulent temptation thus began wonder, not,
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Speaker 1: Sovereign Mistress, if perhaps thou canst who art sole wonder
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Speaker 1: much less arm thy looks the heaven of mildness with disdain,
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Speaker 1: displeased that I approached thee thus and gaze insatiate. I
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Speaker 1: thus single, nor have feared thy awful brow more awful,
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Speaker 1: Thus retired fairest resemblance of thy maker, fair thee, all
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Speaker 1: things living, Gaze on all things Thine by gift, and
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Speaker 1: thy celestial beauty adore with ravishment beheld their best beheld
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Speaker 1: where universally admired. But here in this enclosure wild these
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Speaker 1: beasts among beholders, rude and shallow to discern half what
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Speaker 1: in THEE is fair one man except who sees THEE.
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Speaker 1: And what is one who shouldst be seen? A goddess
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Speaker 1: among gods, adored and served by angels numberless. Thy daily
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Speaker 1: train so glowsed the tempter and his proem tuned into
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Speaker 1: the heart of Eve. His words made way, though at
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Speaker 1: the voice much marveling at length not unamazed. She thus,
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Speaker 1: in answer spake, what may this mean? Language of man
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Speaker 1: pronounced by tongue of brute and human sense expressed the first,
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Speaker 1: at least of these I thought denied to beasts, whom
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Speaker 1: God on their creation day created mute to all articulate sound.
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Speaker 1: The latter I demur, for in their looks much reason,
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Speaker 1: and in their actions oft appears thee serpent, subtlest beast
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Speaker 1: of all the field I knew, but not with human voice.
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Speaker 1: Endued redouble then this miracle, and say, how canst thou
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Speaker 1: speakable of mute? And how to me so friendly grown
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Speaker 1: above the rest of brutal kind that daily are in sight?
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Speaker 1: Say for such wonder claims attention do to whom the
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Speaker 1: guileful tempter thus replied, Empress of this fair, resplendent eve.
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Speaker 1: Easy to me it is to tell thee all what
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Speaker 1: thou command'st and right thou shouldst be obeyed. I was
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Speaker 1: at first as other beasts that grazed the trodden herb
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Speaker 1: of abject thoughts and low as was my food, nor
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Speaker 1: aught but food discerned or sex, and apprehended nothing high
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Speaker 1: till on a day roving the field I chanced a
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Speaker 1: goodly tree, far distant to behold, loaden with fruit of
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Speaker 1: fairest colors, mixed ruddy in gold. I nearer drew to gaze,
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Speaker 1: when from the boughs a savory odor blown grateful to appetite,
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Speaker 1: more pleased my sense than smell of sweetest fennel, or
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Speaker 1: the teats of eyewe, or goat dropping with milk at
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Speaker 1: even unsucked of lamb or kid, that tend their play
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Speaker 1: to satisfy the sharp desire I had of tasting those
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Speaker 1: fair apples, I resolved not to defer hunger and thirst.
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Speaker 1: At once powerful persuaders, quickened at the scent of that
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Speaker 1: alluring fruit, urged me so keen about the mossy trunk.
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Speaker 1: I wound me soon, for high from ground the branches
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Speaker 1: would require thy utmost reach or atoms round the tree.
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Speaker 1: All other beasts that saw with like desire, longing and envying, stood,
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Speaker 1: but could not reach amid the tree now got where
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Speaker 1: plenty hung, tempting so nigh to pluck and eat my fill.
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Speaker 1: I spared not for such pleasure. Till that hour at
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Speaker 1: feed or fountain. Never had I found sated at length
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Speaker 1: ere long I might perceive strange alteration in me to
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Speaker 1: degree of reason in my inward powers and speech wanted
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Speaker 1: not long though to this shape retained, thenceforth to speculations
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Speaker 1: high or deep. I turned my thoughts, and with capacious
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Speaker 1: mind considered all things visible in heaven or earth or middle,
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Speaker 1: all things fair and good, but all that fair and
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Speaker 1: good in thy divine semblance, and in thy beauty's heavenly
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Speaker 1: ray united, I beheld no fare to thine equivalent or second,
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Speaker 1: which compelled me thus though importune perhaps to come and
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Speaker 1: gaze and worship Thee of right, declared sovereign of creatures,
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Speaker 1: Universal Dame. So talk the spirited sly snake, and Eve
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Speaker 1: yet more amazed, unwary, thus replied serpent Thy overpraising leaves
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Speaker 1: in doubt the virtue of that fruit in thee first proved.
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Speaker 1: But say where grows the tree? From? Hence? How far?
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Speaker 1: For many are the trees of God that grow in paradise,
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Speaker 1: and various, yet unknown to us. In such abundance lies
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Speaker 1: our choice as leaves, a greater store of fruit untouched,
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Speaker 1: still hanging, incorruptible, till men grow up to their provision,
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Speaker 1: and more hands help to disburden nature of her birth,
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Speaker 1: to whom the wily adder blithe and glad empress. The
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Speaker 1: way is ready and not long. Behold a row of
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Speaker 1: myrtles on a flat fast by a fountain, one small
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Speaker 1: thicket past of blowing mrrh and balm. If thou accept
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Speaker 1: my conduct, I can bring thee thither soon. Lead, then
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Speaker 1: said Eve. He leading swiftly rolled in tangles and made
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Speaker 1: intricate seem straight to mischief, swift hope elevates and joy
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Speaker 1: brightens his crest. As when a wandering fire compact of
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Speaker 1: unctuous vapor, which the night condenses and the cold environs round,
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Speaker 1: kindled through agitation to a flame, which oft, they say,
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Speaker 1: some evil spirit attends, hovering and blazing with delusive light,
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Speaker 1: misleads the amazed night wanderer from his way to bogs
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Speaker 1: and mires, and oft through pond or pool there swallowed
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Speaker 1: up and lost from succor. Far so glistered the dire
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Speaker 1: snake and into fraud led Eve, our credulous mother, to
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Speaker 1: the tree of prohibition, root of all our woe, which,
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Speaker 1: when she saw thus to her guide she spake, serpent,
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Speaker 1: we might have spared our coming hither fruitless to me,
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Speaker 1: though fruit be here to excess, the credit of whose
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Speaker 1: virtue rest with thee wondrous. Indeed, if cause of such
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Speaker 1: effects but of this tree, we may not taste nor touch.
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Speaker 1: God so commanded and left that command sole daughter of
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Speaker 1: his voice. The rest we live law to ourselves. Our
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Speaker 1: reason is our law, to whom the tempter guilefully replied, Indeed,
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Speaker 1: hath God then said that of the fruit of all
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Speaker 1: these garden trees, ye shall not eat. Yet, lords declared
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Speaker 1: of all in earth or air, to whom thus eve
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Speaker 1: yet sinless of the fruit of each tree in the
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Speaker 1: garden we may eat. But of the fruit of this
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Speaker 1: fair tree amidst the garden, God hath said, ye shall
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Speaker 1: not eat thereof, nor shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
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Speaker 1: She scarce had said, though brief, when now more bold
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Speaker 1: the tempter, but with show of zeal and love to man,
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Speaker 1: and indignation at his wrong new part, art puts on,
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Speaker 1: and as to passion moved fluctuates, disturbed, yet comely and
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Speaker 1: in act raised as of some great matter, to begin,
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Speaker 1: as when of old some orator renowned in Athens or
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Speaker 1: free Rome, where eloquence flourished, since mute to some great
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Speaker 1: cause addressed, stood in himself collected, while each part motion,
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Speaker 1: each act, one audience ere the tongue, sometimes in height,
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Speaker 1: began as no delay of preface, brooking through his zeal
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Speaker 1: of right, so standing moving or to height, upgrown the tempter,
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Speaker 1: all impassioned. Thus began o sacred, wise and wisdom giving plant,
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Speaker 1: mother of science. Now I feel thy power within me, clear,
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Speaker 1: not only to discern things in their causes, but to
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Speaker 1: trace the ways of highest agents deemed. However, wise, queen
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Speaker 1: of this universe, do not believe those rigid threats of death.
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Speaker 1: Ye shall not die, How should ye by the fruit
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Speaker 1: it gives you life to knowledge by the threatener. Look
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Speaker 1: on me me, who have touched and tasted, yet both
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Speaker 1: live and life more perfect have attained than fate meant
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Speaker 1: me by venturing higher than my lot? Shall that be
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Speaker 1: shut to man, which to the beast is open? Or
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Speaker 1: will God incense his ire for such a petty trespass
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Speaker 1: and not praise rather your dauntless virtue, whom the pain
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Speaker 1: of death denounced. Whatever thing death be deterred, not from
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Speaker 1: achieving what might lead to happier life, knowledge of good
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Speaker 1: and evil? Of good, how just of evil? If what
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Speaker 1: is evil be real? Why not known? Since easier shunned
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Speaker 1: God therefore cannot hurt ye and be just? Not just?
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Speaker 1: Not God not feared then, nor obeyed your fear itself
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Speaker 1: of death removes the fear? Why then was this forbid?
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Speaker 1: Why but to awe? Why but to keep ye low
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Speaker 1: and ignorant His worshipers. He knows that in the day
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Speaker 1: ye eat thereof your eyes that seem so clear, Yet
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Speaker 1: are but dim shall perfectly be then opened and cleared,
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Speaker 1: and ye shall be as gods, knowing both good and evil,
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Speaker 1: as they know that ye should be as gods, Since I,
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Speaker 1: as man internal man, is but proportioned meat, I of
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Speaker 1: brute human, ye of human gods. So ye shall die,
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Speaker 1: perhaps by putting off human, to put on God's death,
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Speaker 1: to be wished, though threatened, which no worse than this
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Speaker 1: can bring. And what are gods that man may not become?
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Speaker 1: As they participating godlike food? The gods are first, and
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Speaker 1: that advantage use on our belief that all from them proceeds.
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Speaker 1: I question it, for this fair earth I see, warmed
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Speaker 1: by the sun, producing every kind, them nothing, if they
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Speaker 1: all things who enclosed no knowledge of good and evil?
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Speaker 1: In this tree, that whoso eatch thereof forthwith attains wisdom
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Speaker 1: without their leave? And wherein lies the offense that man
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Speaker 1: should thus attain to know? What can your knowledge hurt him?
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Speaker 1: Or this tree impart against his will? If all be his?
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Speaker 1: Or is it envy? And can envy dwell in heavenly breasts?
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Speaker 1: These these and many more causes import your need of
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Speaker 1: this fair fruit, Goddess, humane reach then and freely taste.
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Speaker 1: He ended, and his words replete with guile, into her
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Speaker 1: heart too easy entrance. One fixed on the fruit she gazed,
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Speaker 1: which to behold might tempt alone, and in her ears,
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Speaker 1: the sound, yet wrung of his persuasive words, imprened with
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Speaker 1: reason to her seeming and with truth. Meanwhile, the hour
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Speaker 1: of noon drew on and waked an eager appetite, raised
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Speaker 1: by the smell so savory of that fruit, which, with
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Speaker 1: desire inclinable, now grown to touch or taste, solicited her
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Speaker 1: longing eye. Yet first pausing awhile thus to herself, she mused,
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Speaker 1: great are thy virtues, doubtless best of fruits, though kept
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Speaker 1: from man, and worthy to be admired, whose taste too
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Speaker 1: long forborn At first essay, gave elocution to the mute,
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Speaker 1: and taught the tongue not made for speech, to speak
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Speaker 1: thy praise, Thy praise. He also, who forbids thy use,
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Speaker 1: conceals not from us, naming THEE the tree of knowledge,
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Speaker 1: knowledge both of good and evil, forbids us then to taste.
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Speaker 1: But his forbidding commends THEE more while it infers the
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Speaker 1: good by THEE communicated, and our want for good unknown
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Speaker 1: sure is not had or had, And yet unknown is
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Speaker 1: as not had at all in plain? Then what forbids
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Speaker 1: he but to know? Forbids us good, forbids us to
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Speaker 1: be wise. Such prohibitions bind not, But if death bind
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Speaker 1: us with after bads, what profits then are inward freedom?
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Speaker 1: In the day we eat of this fair fruit, our
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Speaker 1: doom is we shall die? How dies the serpent he
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Speaker 1: hath eaten, and lives, and knows, and speaks, and reasons
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Speaker 1: and discerns irrational till then for us alone was death
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Speaker 1: invented or to us denied? This intellectual food for beasts,
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Speaker 1: reserved for beasts. It seems yet that one beast, which
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Speaker 1: first hath tasted, envies not, but brings with joy the
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Speaker 1: good befallen him author unsuspect, friendly to man, far from
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Speaker 1: deceit or guile. What fear I, then, rather, what know
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Speaker 1: to fear? Under this ignorance of good and evil of God,
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Speaker 1: or death, of law or penalty? Here grows the cure
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Speaker 1: of all this fruit, divine, fair to the eye, inviting
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Speaker 1: to the taste of virtue to make wise. What hinders
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Speaker 1: then to reach and feed at once both body and mind?
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Speaker 1: So saying her rash hand in evil hour, forth reaching
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Speaker 1: to the fruit she plucked, she ate earth, felt the wound,
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Speaker 1: and nature from her seat, sighing through all her works
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Speaker 1: gave signs of woe that all was lost. Back to
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Speaker 1: the thicket, slunk the guilty serpent, and well might for
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Speaker 1: Eve intent now wholly on her taste, nought else regarded
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Speaker 1: such delight till then, as seemed in fruit, she never tasted,
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Speaker 1: whether true or fancied. So through expectation, high of knowledge,
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Speaker 1: nor was Godhead from her thought. Greedily she engorged without restraint,
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Speaker 1: and knew not eating death. Sat She ate at length
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Speaker 1: and heightened, as with wine, jocned and boone. Thus to
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Speaker 1: herself she pleasingly began O sovereign, virtuous, precious of all
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Speaker 1: trees in paradise of operation, blessed to sapiens. Hitherto two obscured,
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Speaker 1: infamed and thy fair fruit. Let hang as to no
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Speaker 1: end created. But henceforth my early care, not without song
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Speaker 1: each morning and due praise, shall tend thee and the
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Speaker 1: fertile burden ease of thy full branches, offered free to all,
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Speaker 1: till dieted by THEE. I grow mature in knowledge as
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Speaker 1: the gods who all things know, though others envy what
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Speaker 1: they cannot give. For had the gift been theirs, it
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Speaker 1: had not here thus grown experience next to THEE, I
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Speaker 1: owe best guide. Not following THEE, I had remained in ignorance.
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Speaker 1: Thou openest Wisdom's way and givest access. Though secret, she retire,
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Speaker 1: and I perhaps am secret. Heaven is high, high and
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Speaker 1: remote to see from, thence distinct each thing on earth,
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Speaker 1: and other care perhaps may have diverted from continual watch.
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Speaker 1: Our great forbidder, safe with all his spies about him.
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Speaker 1: But to act in what sort shall I appear? Shall
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Speaker 1: I to him make known as yet my change, and
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Speaker 1: give him to partake full happiness with me? Or rather not,
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Speaker 1: but keep the odds of knowledge in my power without
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Speaker 1: co partner, So to add what wants in female sex,
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Speaker 1: the more to draw his love and render me more
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Speaker 1: equal and perhaps a thing not undesirable, sometime superior for
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Speaker 1: inferior who is free. This may be well, But what
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Speaker 1: if God have seen and death ensue, Then I shall
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Speaker 1: be no more, and Adam, wedded to another Eve, shall
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Speaker 1: live with her, enjoying I extinct. A death to think confirmed,
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Speaker 1: then I resolve, Adam shall share with me in bliss
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Speaker 1: or woe, so dear I love him, that with him
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Speaker 1: all deaths I could endure. Without him, live no life. So,
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Speaker 1: saying from the tree her step, she turned, but first
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Speaker 1: low reverenced as to the power that dwelt within, whose
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Speaker 1: presence had infused into the plant's sciential sap derived from
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Speaker 1: nectar drink of gods. Adam, the while waiting, desirous her return,
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Speaker 1: had wove of choicest flowers a garland to adorn her
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Speaker 1: tresses and her rural labor's crown. As reapers oft are
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Speaker 1: wont their harvest. Queen great joy, he promised to his
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Speaker 1: thoughts and knew solace in her return, so long delayed.
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Speaker 1: Yet oft his heart, divine of something ill misgave him.
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Speaker 1: He the faltering measure felt, and forth to meet her,
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Speaker 1: went the way she took that morn, when first they
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Speaker 1: parted by the tree of knowledge, he must pass there
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Speaker 1: he her met scarce from the tree, returning in her
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Speaker 1: hand a bow of fairest fruit that downy smiled, new
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Speaker 1: gathered and ambrosial smell diffused to him. She hasted in
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Speaker 1: her face. Excuse came prolog and apology to prompt, which
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Speaker 1: with bland words at will she thus a dressed hast
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Speaker 1: thou not wandered adam at my stay thee I have missed,
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Speaker 1: and thought it long deprived thy presence, agony of love
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Speaker 1: till now not felt, nor shall be twice, for nevermore
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Speaker 1: mean I to try what rash untried. I sought the
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Speaker 1: pain of absence from thy sight. But strange hath been
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Speaker 1: the cause and wonderful to hear. This tree is not,
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Speaker 1: as we are told, a tree of danger tasted, nor
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Speaker 1: to evil unknown opening the way, but of divine effect
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Speaker 1: to open eyes and make them gods who taste. And
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Speaker 1: hath been tasted such the serpent, wise or not restrained
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Speaker 1: as we or not obeying, hath eaten of the fruit,
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Speaker 1: and is become not dead as we are threatened, but
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Speaker 1: thenceforth endued with human voice and human sense, reasoning to admiration,
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Speaker 1: and with me persuasively. Hath so prevailed that I have
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Speaker 1: also tasted, and have also found the effects to correspond,
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Speaker 1: opener mine eyes, dim erst dilated spirits, amp her heart,
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Speaker 1: and growing up to Godhead, which for THEE chiefly I sought.
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Speaker 1: Without THEE can despise for bliss, as thou hast part
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Speaker 1: to me is bliss, tedious, unshared with THEE, and odious. Soon,
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Speaker 1: Thou therefore also taste that equal lot may join us
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Speaker 1: equal joy as equal love. Lest thou, not tasting different degree,
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Speaker 1: disjoin us, and I, then, too late, renounce deity for
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Speaker 1: thee when fate will not permit. Thus, Eve, with countenance
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Speaker 1: blythe her story told, but in her cheek distemper flushing
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Speaker 1: glowed on the other side. Adam, soon as he heard
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Speaker 1: the fatal trespass done by Eve, amazed, a stonied, stood
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Speaker 1: and blank, while horror chill ran through his veins, and
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Speaker 1: all his joints relaxed from his slack hand. The garland
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Speaker 1: wreathed for Eve down dropped, and all the faded roses shed. Speechless,
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Speaker 1: he stood and pale, till thus at length, first to himself,
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Speaker 1: he inward silence broke O fairest of creation, last and
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Speaker 1: best of all God's works, creature, in whom excelled whatever
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Speaker 1: can to sight or thought be formed wholly, divine, good,
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Speaker 1: amiable or sweet. How art thou lost, How on a
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Speaker 1: sudden lost defaced thee flowered and now to death devote Rather,
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Speaker 1: how hast thou yielded to transgress the strict forbiddence. How
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Speaker 1: to violate the sacred fruit forbidden? Some cursed fraud of
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Speaker 1: enemy hath beguiled, THEE yet unknown, and me with THEE
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Speaker 1: hath ruined. For with THEE certain, my resolution is to die.
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Speaker 1: How can I live without THEE? How forego thy sweet
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Speaker 1: converse and love so dearly joined? To live again in
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Speaker 1: these wild woods? Forlorn? Should God create another Eve and
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Speaker 1: I another rib afford? Yet loss of THEE would never
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Speaker 1: from my heart, No, no, I feel the link of
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Speaker 1: nature draw me flesh of flesh, bone of my bone.
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Speaker 1: Thou art, and from thy state mine never shall be
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Speaker 1: parted bliss or woe. So, having said, as one from
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Speaker 1: sad dismay, recomforted and after thoughts disturbed, submitting to what
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Speaker 1: seemed remediless. Thus, in calm mood his words to Eve,
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Speaker 1: he turned bold deed. Thou hast presumed adventurous Eve, and
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Speaker 1: peril great provoked. Who thus hath dared had it been
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Speaker 1: only coveting to eye that sacred fruit, sacred to abstinence,
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Speaker 1: much more to taste it under band to touch, but
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Speaker 1: past who can recall or done undo, Not God, omnipotent,
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Speaker 1: nor fate. Yet so perhaps thou shalt not die. Perhaps
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Speaker 1: the fact is not so heinous. Now foretasted fruit profaned
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Speaker 1: first by the serpent, by him first made common and
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Speaker 1: unhallowed ere our taste, nor yet on him found deadly,
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Speaker 1: he yet lives, lives as thou saidst and gains to
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Speaker 1: live as man. Higher degree of life inducements strong to
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Speaker 1: us as likely tasting to attain proportional assent, which cannot
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Speaker 1: be but to be God's or angels demigods. Nor can
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Speaker 1: I think that God, Creator, wise though threatening, will in
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Speaker 1: earnest so destroy us his prime creatures, dignified so high
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Speaker 1: set over all his works, which in our fall for
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Speaker 1: us created needs with us must fail, dependent made. So
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Speaker 1: God shall uncreate, be frustrate, do undo and labor lose.
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Speaker 1: Not well conceived of God, who, though his power creation
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Speaker 1: could repeat, yet would beloathe us to abolish. Lest the
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Speaker 1: adversary triumphant say fickle their state. Whom God most favors,
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Speaker 1: who can please him long me first He ruin now mankind,
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Speaker 1: whom will ennext matter of scorn, not to be given
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Speaker 1: the foe. However, I, with THEE have fixed my lot,
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Speaker 1: certain to undergo like doom if death consort with THEE.
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Speaker 1: Death is to me as life, so forcible within my heart,
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Speaker 1: I feel the bond of nature draw me to my own,
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Speaker 1: my own in THEE. For what thou art is mine.
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Speaker 1: Our state cannot be severed. We are one, one flesh
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Speaker 1: to lose THEE were to lose myself. So Adam and
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Speaker 1: thus Eve to him replied, O glorious trial of exceeding love,
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Speaker 1: illustrious evidence, example high engaging me to emulate. But short
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Speaker 1: of thy perfection, how shall I attain? Adam, from whose
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Speaker 1: dear sight I boast me sprung and gladly of our union.
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Speaker 1: Hear THEE speak one heart, one soul in both whereof
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Speaker 1: good proof this day affords, declaring THEE resolved rather than death,
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Speaker 1: or aught than death. More dread shall separate us LinkedIn love.
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Speaker 1: So dear to undergo with me one guilt, one crime,
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Speaker 1: if any be of tasting this fair fruit, whose virtue
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Speaker 1: for of good still good proceeds direct or by occasion,
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Speaker 1: hath presented this happy trial of thy love, which else
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Speaker 1: so eminently never had been known. Were it I thought
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Speaker 1: death menaced would ensue this my attempt, I would sustain
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Speaker 1: alone the worst and not persuade thee rather die deserted
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Speaker 1: than oblige THEE with a fact pernicious to thy. Peace
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Speaker 1: chiefly assured, remarkably so late of thy, so true, so
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Speaker 1: faithful love unequaled. But I feel far otherwise. The event
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Speaker 1: not death, but life augmented, opened eyes, new hopes, new joys.
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Speaker 1: Taste so divine that what of sweet before hath touched
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Speaker 1: my sense flat seems to this and harsh on my experience,
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Speaker 1: adam freely taste and fear of death delivered to the winds,
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Speaker 1: so saying, she embraced him, and for joy ohey tenderly
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Speaker 1: wept much one that he his love, had so ennobled
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Speaker 1: as of choice to incur divine displeasure for her sake
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Speaker 1: or death in recompense for such compliance bad such recompense
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Speaker 1: best merits from the bow. She gave him of that fair,
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Speaker 1: enticing fruit with liberal hand. He scrupled not to eat,
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Speaker 1: against his better knowledge. Not deceived, but fondly overcome with
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Speaker 1: female charm. Earth trembled from her entrails as again in pangs,
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Speaker 1: and nature gave a second groan. Sky lowered, and muttering thunder,
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Speaker 1: some sad drops wept at completing of the mortal sin original,
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Speaker 1: while Adam took no thought eating his fill, nor Eve
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Speaker 1: to iterate her former trespass, feared the more to soothe
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Speaker 1: him with her loved society. That now, as with new wine, intoxicated,
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Speaker 1: both they swim in mirth and fancy that they feeled
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Speaker 1: divinity within them, breeding wings wherewith to scorn the earth.
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Speaker 1: But that false fruit, if far other operation first displayed
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Speaker 1: Colonel desire in flaming he on Eve began to cast
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Speaker 1: lascivious eyes, she him as wantonly repaid in lust, they
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Speaker 1: burn till Adam thus gan Eve to dalliance. Move Eve.
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Speaker 1: Now I see thou art exactive taste and elegant of
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Speaker 1: sapience no small part, since to each meaning savor we
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Speaker 1: apply and pallate, called judicious I the praise yield thee
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Speaker 1: so well this day thou hast purveyed much pleasure we
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Speaker 1: have lost while we abstained from this delightful fruit, nor
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Speaker 1: known till now true relish tasting. If such pleasure be
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Speaker 1: in things to us forbidden, it might be wished. For
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Speaker 1: this one tree had been forbidden ten, but come so
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Speaker 1: well refreshed. Now let us play as meat is after
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Speaker 1: such delicious fair For never did thy beauty, since the
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Speaker 1: day I saw thee first and wedded thee, adorned with
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Speaker 1: all perfections, so inflame my sense with ardor to enjoy
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Speaker 1: thee fairer now than ever bounty of this virtuous tree,
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Speaker 1: so said he, And forbore not glance or toy of
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Speaker 1: amorous intent. Well understood of Eve, whose eye darted contagious fire.
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Speaker 1: Her hand he seized, and to a shady bank, thick overhead,
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Speaker 1: with verdant roof embowered, he led her nothing loathe flowers,
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Speaker 1: with a couch, pansies and violets, and Asphodel and Hyacinth
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Speaker 1: earth's freshest softest lap. There they their fill of love,
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Speaker 1: and love's disport took largely of their mutual guilt, the
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Speaker 1: seal the solace of their sin, till dewy sleep oppressed them,
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Speaker 1: wearied with their amorous play. Soon as the force of
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Speaker 1: that fallacious fruit, that, with exhilarating vapor bland about their spirits,
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Speaker 1: had played and inmost powers made err was now exhaled,
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Speaker 1: and grosser sleep, bred of unkindly fumes, with conscious dreams encumbered,
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Speaker 1: now had left them up. They rose as from unrest,
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Speaker 1: and each the other viewing. Soon found their eyes how opened,
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Speaker 1: and their minds how darkened, innocence that as a veil
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Speaker 1: had shadowed them from knowing, ill was gone just confidence
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Speaker 1: and native righteousness and honor from about them, naked, left
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Speaker 1: to guilty shame, he covered, but his robe uncovered. More
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Speaker 1: so rose the Danite, strong, Herculean Samson from the harlot
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Speaker 1: lap of Philistine Dolly law and waked, shorn of his strength,
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Speaker 1: they destitute and bear of all their virtue, silent and
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Speaker 1: in face confounded. Long they sat as struck in mute,
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Speaker 1: till Adam, though not less than Eve, abashed, at length,
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Speaker 1: gave utterance to these words. Constrained, O Eve, in evil hour,
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Speaker 1: thou didst give ear to that false worm, of whomsoever
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Speaker 1: taught to counterfeit Man's voice, true in our fall, false
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Speaker 1: in our promised rising. Since our eyes eyes opened, we find, indeed,
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Speaker 1: and find we know both good and evil, good lost
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Speaker 1: and evil God bad fruit of knowledge, if this be
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Speaker 1: to know, which leaves us naked thus of honor, void
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Speaker 1: of innocence, of faith, of purity, our wonted ornaments now
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Speaker 1: soiled and stained, and in our face is evident the
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Speaker 1: signs of foul concupiscence, whence evil store even shame, the
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Speaker 1: last of evils of the first be sure, then how
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Speaker 1: shall I behold the face henceforth of God or angel
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Speaker 1: erst with joy and rapture so oft beheld those heavenly
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Speaker 1: shapes will dazzle now this earthly with their blaze insufferably bright. Oh,
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Speaker 1: might I here in solitude live savage in some glade obscured,
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Speaker 1: where highest woods, impenetrable to star or sunlight, spread their umbrage,
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Speaker 1: broad and brown as evening cover me. Ye pines, ye cedars,
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Speaker 1: with innumerable boughs, hide me where I may never see
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Speaker 1: them more. But let us, now, as in bad plight,
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Speaker 1: devise what best may for the present serve to hide
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Speaker 1: the parts of each from other that seem most to
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Speaker 1: shame obnoxious and unseemlest scene. Some tree, whose broad, smooth leaves,
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Speaker 1: together sowed and girded on our loins, may cover round
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Speaker 1: those middle parts that this newcomer shame. There sit not
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Speaker 1: and reproach us as unclean. So counseled he and both
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Speaker 1: together went into the thickest wood. There Soon they chose
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Speaker 1: the fig tree, not that kind for fruit renowned, but
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Speaker 1: such as at this day to Indians, known in Malabar
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Speaker 1: or Decan, spreads her arms, branching so broad and long
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Speaker 1: that in the ground the bended twigs take root, and
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Speaker 1: daughters grow about the mother tree. A pillared shade, high
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Speaker 1: overarched and echoing walks between thereof the Indian herdsman, shunning heat,
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Speaker 1: shelters in cool and tends his pasturing herds at loop
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Speaker 1: holes cut through the thickest shade. Those leaves they gathered
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Speaker 1: broad as Amazonian charge, and with what skill they had
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Speaker 1: together sowed to gird their waste, vain covering if to
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Speaker 1: hide their guilt and dreaded shame, Oh hawanlike to that
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Speaker 1: first naked glory such of late Columbus found the Americans
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Speaker 1: so girt with feathered cincture, naked else and wild among
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Speaker 1: the trees on isles and woody shores. Thus fenced, and
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Speaker 1: as they thought their shame in part covered, but not
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Speaker 1: at rest or ease of mind, they sat them down
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Speaker 1: to weep. Nor only tears reigned at their eyes, but
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Speaker 1: high winds worse within began to rise. High passions, anger, hate, mistrust, suspicion, discord,
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Speaker 1: and shook sore their inward state of mind. Calm region,
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Speaker 1: once and full of peace, now tossed and turbulent, for
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Speaker 1: understanding ruled not, and the will heard not her lore,
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Speaker 1: both in subjection now to sensual appetite, who from beneath
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Speaker 1: usurping over sovereign reason, claimed superior sway from thus distempered
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Speaker 1: breast Adam, estranged in look and altered style speech intermitted
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Speaker 1: Thus to Eve renewed, would thou hadst tarkened my words
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Speaker 1: and stayed with me as I besought thee, when that
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Speaker 1: strange desire of wandering, this unhappy morn I know not,
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Speaker 1: whence possess thee? We had then remained still happy, Not
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Speaker 1: as now despoiled of all our good, shamed, naked, miserable.
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Speaker 1: Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve the faith
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Speaker 1: they owe. When earnestly they seek such proof conclude they
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Speaker 1: then begin to fail, to whom soon moved with touch
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Speaker 1: of blame. Thus, Eve, what words have passed thy lips?
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Speaker 1: Adam severe imputes thou that to my default or will
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Speaker 1: of wandering, as thou call'st it, which who knows, but
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Speaker 1: might as ill have happened thou being by or to thyself,
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Speaker 1: Perhaps hadst thou been there or hear the attempt. Thou
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Speaker 1: couldst not have discerned fraud in the serpent, speaking as
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Speaker 1: he spake, no ground of enmity between us, known why
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Speaker 1: he should mean me ill or seek to harm? Was
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Speaker 1: I to have never parted from thy side? As good
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Speaker 1: have grown there still a lifeless rib? Being as I am?
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Speaker 1: Why didst not thou the head command me absolutely not
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Speaker 1: to go going into such danger? As thou saidst too facile?
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Speaker 1: Then thou didst not much gainsay, nay didst permit, approve
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Speaker 1: and fair dismiss? Hadst thou been firm and fixed in
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Speaker 1: thy descent? Neither had I transgressed, nor thou with me,
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Speaker 1: to whom then first incensed, Adam replied, Is this the love?
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Speaker 1: Is this the recompense of mind to thee? In grateful
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Speaker 1: eve expressed immutable when thou wert lost? Not I, who
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Speaker 1: might have lived and enjoyed immortal bliss, yet willingly chose
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Speaker 1: rather death with THEE? And am I now upbraided as
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Speaker 1: the cause of thy transgressing not enough severe? It seems
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Speaker 1: in thy restraint? What could I more? I warned THEE?
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Speaker 1: I admonish THEE foretold the danger and the lurking enemy
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Speaker 1: that lay in wait. Beyond this had been force, and
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Speaker 1: force upon free will hath here no place but confidence.
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Speaker 1: Then bore THEE on secure, either to meet the danger
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Speaker 1: or to find matter of glorious trial. And perhaps I
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Speaker 1: also erred in over much admiring what seemed in THEE
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Speaker 1: so perfect, that I thought no evil durst attempt THEE.
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Speaker 1: But I rue that error now which is become my crime,
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Speaker 1: and thou the accuser. Thus it shall befall him who
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Speaker 1: to worth in women, overtrusting lets her will rule, restraint,
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Speaker 1: she will not brook, and left to herself. If evil,
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Speaker 1: thence ensue she first, his weak indulgence will accuse. Thus they,
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Speaker 1: in mutual accusation, spent the fruitless hours, but neither self condemning,
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Speaker 1: and of their vain contest appeared no end. End of
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