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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Recorded by Greg Bryant. Paradise Lost
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  Speaker 1: by John Milton, Book eight, Part two. As when a
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  Speaker 1: ship by skillful steersmen wrought nigh river's mouth or foreland,
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  Speaker 1: where the wind veers oft as oft so steers and
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  Speaker 1: shifts her sail, so varied he and of his tortuous train,
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  Speaker 1: curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve to
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  Speaker 1: lure her eye. She busied, heard the sound of rustling leaves,
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  Speaker 1: but minded not as used to such disport before her
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  Speaker 1: through the field from every beast, more dutious at her
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  Speaker 1: call than at circean call the herd disguised, he bolder,
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  Speaker 1: now uncalled before her stood, but as in gaze, admiring oft,
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  Speaker 1: he bowed his turret crest and sleek enameled neck, fawning
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  Speaker 1: and licked the ground whereon she trod. His gentle dumb expression,
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  Speaker 1: turn'd at length the eye of Eve to mark his play,
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  Speaker 1: He glad of her attention, gained with serpent tongue, organic
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  Speaker 1: or 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 God,
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  Speaker 1: 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, Impress of this fair world, 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
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  Speaker 1: gaze when from the boughs a savory odor blown grateful
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  Speaker 1: to appetite, more pleased my sense than smell of sweetest fennel,
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  Speaker 1: or the teats of eyewe, or goat dropping with milk,
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  Speaker 1: at even unsucked of lamb 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 th thoughts, and with
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  Speaker 1: capacious mind considered all things visible in heaven or earth
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  Speaker 1: or middle, all things fair and good. But all that
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  Speaker 1: fair and good in thy divine semblance, and in thy
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  Speaker 1: beauty's heavenly ray united, I beheld no fair to Thine
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  Speaker 1: equivalent or second, which compelled me. Thus, though importune perhaps
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  Speaker 1: to come and gaze and worship Thee of right declared
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  Speaker 1: sovereign of creatures, universal Dame. So talk the spirited sly
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  Speaker 1: snake and eve, yet more amazed, unwary, thus replied serpent,
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  Speaker 1: Thy over praising leaves in doubt the virtue of that
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  Speaker 1: fruit in thee first proved. But say where grows the tree? From? Hence?
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  Speaker 1: How far? For many are the trees of God that
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  Speaker 1: grow in paradise, and various, yet unknown to us. In
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  Speaker 1: such abundance lies our choice as leaves a greater store
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  Speaker 1: of fruit untouched, still hanging, incorruptible, till men grow up
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  Speaker 1: to their provision, and more hands help to disburden nature
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  Speaker 1: of her birth, to whom the wily adder, blithe and
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  Speaker 1: glad empress. The way is ready, and not long. Behold
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  Speaker 1: a row of myrtles on a flat fast by a fountain,
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  Speaker 1: one small thicket, past of blowing mrrh and balm. If
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  Speaker 1: thou accept my conduct, I can bring thee thither soon. Lead,
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  Speaker 1: then said Eve, he leading swiftly rolled in tangles, and
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  Speaker 1: made intricate seem straight to mischief. Swift hope elevates and
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  Speaker 1: joy brightens his crest, As when a wandering fire compact
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  Speaker 1: of unctuous vapor, which the night condenses and the cold
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  Speaker 1: environs round, kindled through agitation to a flame, which oft,
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  Speaker 1: they say, some evil spirit attends, hovering and blazing with
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  Speaker 1: delusive light, misleads the amazed night wanderer from his way
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  Speaker 1: to bogs and mires, and oft through pond or pool.
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  Speaker 1: There swallowed up and lost from succor. Far so glistered
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  Speaker 1: the dire snake, and into fraud. Led Eve, our credulous mother,
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  Speaker 1: to the tree of prohibition, root of all our woe,
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  Speaker 1: which 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 effects,
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  Speaker 1: but of this tree, we may not taste nor touch God.
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  Speaker 1: So commanded, and left that command sole daughter of his voice.
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  Speaker 1: The rest we live law to ourselves. Our reason is
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  Speaker 1: our law, to whom the tempter guilefully replied, Indeed, hath
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  Speaker 1: God then said that of the fruit of all these
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  Speaker 1: garden trees ye shall not eat. Yet, Lords declared, of
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  Speaker 1: all in earth or air, to whom thus eve yet sinless,
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  Speaker 1: of the fruit of each tree in the garden we
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  Speaker 1: may eat. But of the fruit of this fair tree
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  Speaker 1: amidst the garden, God hath said, ye shall not eat
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  Speaker 1: thereof nor shall ye touch it, lest ye die. She
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  Speaker 1: scarce had said, though brief, when now more bold the tempter,
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  Speaker 1: but with show of zeal and love to man and
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  Speaker 1: indignation at his wrong, new part, puts on, and as
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  Speaker 1: to passion, moved, fluctuates, disturbed, yet comely and in act
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  Speaker 1: raised as of some great matter, to begin, as when
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  Speaker 1: of old some orator renowned in Athens or free Rome,
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  Speaker 1: where eloquence flourished, since mute to some great cause addressed,
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  Speaker 1: stood in himself collected, while each part motion, each act,
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  Speaker 1: one audience ere the tongue sometimes in height, began as
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  Speaker 1: no delay of preface, brooking through his zeal of right,
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  Speaker 1: so standing, moving or to height, upgrown the tempter, all impassioned.
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  Speaker 1: Thus began O sacred, wise and wisdom giving plant, mother
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  Speaker 1: 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 or 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 proportion meet 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 gods, 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 knowledge of good and evil in
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  Speaker 1: this tree, that whoso eat thereof forthwith attains wisdom without
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  Speaker 1: their leave, And wherein lies the offense that man should
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  Speaker 1: 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? These,
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  Speaker 1: these and many more causes, import your need of this
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  Speaker 1: fair fruit, Goddess humane, reach then and freely taste, He ended,
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  Speaker 1: and his words, replete with guile, into her heart, too
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  Speaker 1: easy entrance. One fixed on the fruit, she gazed, which
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  Speaker 1: to behold might tempt alone, and in her ears the
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  Speaker 1: sound yet wrung of his purson words impreened with reason
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  Speaker 1: to her seeming and with truth. Meanwhile, the hour of
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  Speaker 1: noon drew on and waked. An eager appetite, raised by
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  Speaker 1: the smell so savory of that fruit, which, with desire inclinable,
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  Speaker 1: now grown to touch or taste, solicited her longing eye. Yet,
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  Speaker 1: first pausing awhile, thus to herself, she mused, great are
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  Speaker 1: thy virtues, doubtless best of fruits, though kept from man,
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  Speaker 1: and worthy to be admired, whose taste too long forborn
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  Speaker 1: At first essay, gave elocution to the mute, and taught
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  Speaker 1: the tongue not made for speech, to speak thy praise,
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  Speaker 1: Thy praise. He also who forbids thy use conceals not
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  Speaker 1: from us, naming thee the tree of knowledge, knowledge, both
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  Speaker 1: of good and evil. Forbids us then to taste, But
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  Speaker 1: his forbidding commends thee more, while it infers the good
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  Speaker 1: by thee communicated. And our want for good unknown sure
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  Speaker 1: is not had or had, and yet unknown is as
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  Speaker 1: not had at all. In plain, then what forbids he
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  Speaker 1: but to know, forbids us good, forbids us to be wise.
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  Speaker 1: Such prohibitions bind not. But if death bind us with
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  Speaker 1: after bands, what profits then are inward freedom? In the
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  Speaker 1: day we eat of this fair fruit, our doom is
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  Speaker 1: we shall die? How dies the serpent he hath eaten,
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  Speaker 1: and lives, and knows and speaks, and reasons and discerns
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  Speaker 1: irrational till then for us alone was death invented or
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  Speaker 1: to us denied? This intellectual food for beasts reserved for beasts.
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  Speaker 1: It seems yet that one beast, which first hath tasted,
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  Speaker 1: envies not, but brings with joy the good befallen him author, unsuspect,
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  Speaker 1: friendly to man, far from deceit or guile. What fear I, then, rather,
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  Speaker 1: what know to fear? Under this ignorance of good and evil,
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  Speaker 1: of God, or death, of law or penalty? Here grows
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  Speaker 1: the cure of all this fruit divine, fair to the eye,
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  Speaker 1: inviting to the taste of virtue to make wise what
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  Speaker 1: hinders then to reach and feed at once both body
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  Speaker 1: and mind. So saying her rash hand in evil hour. Forth,
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  Speaker 1: reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she et earth, felt
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  Speaker 1: the wound, and nature from her seat, sighing through all
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  Speaker 1: her works, gave signs of woe that all was lost.
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  Speaker 1: Back to the thicket, slunk the guilty serpent, and well might.
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  Speaker 1: For Eve intent now wholly on her taste, naught else
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  Speaker 1: regarded such delight till then as seemed in fruit she
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  Speaker 1: never tasted, whether true or fancied. So through expectation high
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  Speaker 1: of knowledge, nor was Godhead from her thought. Greedily she
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  Speaker 1: engorged without restraint, and knew not eating death. Say she
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  Speaker 1: he ate at length and heightened, as with wine, jocund
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  Speaker 1: and boon. Thus to herself she pleasingly began o sovereign, virtuous,
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  Speaker 1: precious of all trees, in paradise of operation, blest to sapiens.
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  Speaker 1: Hitherto obscured, infamed and thy fair fruit, let hang as
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  Speaker 1: to no end created. But henceforth my early care, not
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  Speaker 1: without song each morning and due praise, shall tend thee
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  Speaker 1: and the fertile burden ease of thy full branches, offered
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  Speaker 1: free to all, till dieted by THEE. I grow mature
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  Speaker 1: in knowledge as the gods who all things know, though
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  Speaker 1: others envy what they cannot give, For had the gift
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  Speaker 1: been theirs, it had not. Here thus grown experience next
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  Speaker 1: to THEE, I owe best guide. Not following THEE, I
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  Speaker 1: had remained in ignorance. Thou openest Wisdom's way and givest access,
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  Speaker 1: though secret, she retire, and I perhaps am seek. Heaven
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  Speaker 1: is high, high and remote to see from, thence distinct
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  Speaker 1: each thing on earth, and other care perhaps may have
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  Speaker 1: diverted from continual watch. Our great forbidder safe with all
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  Speaker 1: his spies about him. But to Adam in what sort
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  Speaker 1: shall I appear? Shall I to him make known as
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  Speaker 1: yet my change, and give him to partake full happiness
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  Speaker 1: with me, or rather not, but keep the odds of
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  Speaker 1: knowledge in my power without co partner. So to add
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  Speaker 1: what wants in female sex, the more to draw his
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  Speaker 1: love and render me more equal, and perhaps a thing
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  Speaker 1: not undesirable, sometime superior for inferior who is free. This
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  Speaker 1: may be well, But what if God have seen and
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  Speaker 1: death ensue, then I shall be no more, and Adam,
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  Speaker 1: wedded to another, Eve, shall live with her, enjoying I
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  Speaker 1: extinct a death to think confirmed, then and I resolve
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  Speaker 1: Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe. So
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  Speaker 1: dear I love him, that with him all deaths I
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  Speaker 1: could endure. Without him live no life. So, saying from
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  Speaker 1: the tree her step, she turned, but first low reverence
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  Speaker 1: done as to the power that dwelt within, whose presence
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  Speaker 1: had infused into the plant's sciential sap derived from nectar
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  Speaker 1: 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 tresses,
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  Speaker 1: and her rural labor's crown. As reapers oft are wont
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  Speaker 1: their harvest. Queen great joy, he promised to his thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: and knew solace in her return, so long delayed. Yet
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  Speaker 1: oft his heart, divine of something ill misgave him. He
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  Speaker 1: the faltering measure felt, and forth to meet her went
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  Speaker 1: the way she took that morn. When first they parted
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  Speaker 1: by the tree of knowledge, he must pass there he
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  Speaker 1: her met scarce from the tree, returning in her hand
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  Speaker 1: a bow of fairest fruit that downy smiled, new gathered
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  Speaker 1: and ambrosial smell diffused to him. She hasted in her face.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse came prolog and apology to prompt, which with bland
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  Speaker 1: words at will she thus addressed, hast thou not wandered,
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  Speaker 1: adam at my stay thee I have missed, and thought
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  Speaker 1: it long deprived thy presence, agony of love till now
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  Speaker 1: not felt, nor shall be twice for nevermore mean I
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  Speaker 1: to try what rash untried. I sought the pain of
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  Speaker 1: absence from thy sight. But strange hath been the cause
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  Speaker 1: and wonderful to hear. This tree is not as we
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  Speaker 1: are told, a tree of danger tasted, nor to evil
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  Speaker 1: unknown opening the way, but of divine effect to open
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  Speaker 1: eyes and make them gods who taste. And hath been
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  Speaker 1: tasted such the serpent wise or not restrained as we
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  Speaker 1: or not obeying, hath eaten of the fruit, and is
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  Speaker 1: become not dead as we are threatened, but thenceforth endued
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  Speaker 1: with human voice and human sense, reasoning to admiration, and
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  Speaker 1: with me persuasively. Hath so prevailed that I have also tasted,
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  Speaker 1: and have also found the effects to correspond. Opener mine eyes,
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  Speaker 1: dim erst dilated spirits, ampler heart, and growing up to Godhead,
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  Speaker 1: which for THEE chiefly I sought. Without THEE can despise
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  Speaker 1: for bliss as thou hast part to me is bliss, tedious,
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  Speaker 1: unshared with THEE, and odious. Soon Thou therefore also taste
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  Speaker 1: that equal lot may join us equal joy as equal love.
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  Speaker 1: Lest thou, not tasting different degree, disjoin us, and I, then,
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  Speaker 1: too late renounce deity for THEE when fate will not permit.
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  Speaker 1: Thus Eve, with countenance, blithe her story told, but in
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  Speaker 1: her cheek distemper flushing glowed. On the other side. Adam,
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  Speaker 1: soon as he heard the fatal trespass done by Eve, amazed,
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  Speaker 1: A stonied, stood and blank, while horror chill ran through
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  Speaker 1: his veins, and all his joints relaxed from his slack hand.
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  Speaker 1: The garland wreathed for Eve down dropped, and all the
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  Speaker 1: faded roses shed. Speechless, he stood and pale, till thus
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  Speaker 1: at length, first to himself, he inward silence broke o
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  Speaker 1: fairest of creation, last and best of all God's works,
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  Speaker 1: creature in whom excelled whatever can to sight or thought
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  Speaker 1: be formed wholly divine, good, amiable or sweet? How art
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  Speaker 1: thou lost? How on a sudden lost, defaced, deflowered, and
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  Speaker 1: now to death devote? Rather, how hast thou yielded to
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  Speaker 1: transgress the strict forbiddence, How to violate the sacred fruit forbidden?
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  Speaker 1: Some cursed fraud of enemy hath beguiled, THEE yet unknown,
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  Speaker 1: and me with THEE hath ruined. For with THEE certain,
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  Speaker 1: my resolution is to die? How can I live without THEE?
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  Speaker 1: How forego thy sweet converse and love so dearly joined?
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  Speaker 1: To live again in these wild woods forlorn? Should God
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  Speaker 1: create another Eve and I another rib afford? Yet loss
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  Speaker 1: of THEE would never from my heart? No, no, I
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  Speaker 1: feel the link of nature draw me flesh of flesh,
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  Speaker 1: bone of my bone, Thou art, and from thy state
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  Speaker 1: mine never shall be parted bliss or woe. So having said,
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  Speaker 1: as one from sad dismay, recomforted and after thoughts disturbed,
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  Speaker 1: submitting to what seemed remediless. Thus, in calm mood his
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  Speaker 1: words to Eve, he turned bold deed, Thou hast presumed
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  Speaker 1: adventurous Eve, and peril great provoked. Who thus hath dared
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  Speaker 1: had it been only coveting to eye that sacred fruit,
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  Speaker 1: sacred to abstinence, much more to taste it under band
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  Speaker 1: to touch, but past who can recall or done undo,
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  Speaker 1: not God omnipotent, nor fate. Yet, so perhaps thou shalt
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  Speaker 1: not die. Perhaps the fact is not so heinous. Now
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  Speaker 1: foretasted fruit profaned first by the serpent, by him first
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  Speaker 1: made common and unhallowed ere our taste, nor yet on
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  Speaker 1: him found deadly, He yet lives lives as thou saidst
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  Speaker 1: and gains to live as man higher degree of life.
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  Speaker 1: Inducement strong to us as likely tasting to attain proportional assent,
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  Speaker 1: which cannot be but to be gods or angels demigods.
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  Speaker 1: Nor can I think that God, Creator, wise though threatening,
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  Speaker 1: will in earnest so destroy us his prime creatures, dignified
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  Speaker 1: so high set over all his works, which in our
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  Speaker 1: fall for us created needs with us must fail dependent made.
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  Speaker 1: So God shall uncreate, be frustrate, do undo and labor lose,
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  Speaker 1: not well conceived of God, God who though his power
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  Speaker 1: creation could repeat, yet would beloathe us to abolish, lest
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  Speaker 1: the adversary triumph and say fickle their state whom God
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  Speaker 1: most favors, who can please him long me first he
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  Speaker 1: ruin now mankind, whom will nxt matter of scorn, not
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  Speaker 1: to be given the foe. However, I with THEE have
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  Speaker 1: fixed my lot, certain to undergo like doom if death
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  Speaker 1: consort with THEE. Death is to me as life, so
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  Speaker 1: forcible within my heart, I feel the bond of nature
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  Speaker 1: draw me to my own, my own in THEE. For
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  Speaker 1: what thou art is mine. Our state cannot be severed.
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  Speaker 1: We are one, one flesh to lose THEE were to
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  Speaker 1: lose myself, so Adam and thus Eve to him replied,
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  Speaker 1: O glorious trial of exceeding love, illustrious evidence example high
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  Speaker 1: engaging me to emulate. But short of thy perfection, how
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  Speaker 1: shall I attain Adam, from whose my dear side I
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  Speaker 1: boast me sprung and gladly of our union. Hear THEE
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  Speaker 1: speak one heart, one soul in both where of good
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  Speaker 1: 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 linked
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  Speaker 1: in love, So dear to undergo with me one guilt,
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  Speaker 1: one crime, if any be of tasting this fair fruit,
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  Speaker 1: whose virtue for of good still good proceeds direct or
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  Speaker 1: by occasion hath presented this happy trial of thy love,
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  Speaker 1: which else so eminently never had been known. Were it
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  Speaker 1: I thought death, menaced would ensue this my attempt. I
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  Speaker 1: would sustain alone the worst, and not persuade thee. Rather
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  Speaker 1: die deserted than oblige thee with a fact pernicious to
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  Speaker 1: thy peace chiefly assured, remarkably so late of thy so true,
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  Speaker 1: so faithful love unequaled. But I feel far otherwise the
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  Speaker 1: event not death, but life augmented, opened eyes, new hopes,
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  Speaker 1: new joys, tastes so divine that what of sweet before
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  Speaker 1: Hath touched my sense flat seems to this and harsh
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  Speaker 1: on my experience adam freely taste and fear of death
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  Speaker 1: delivered to the winds so saying she embraced him, and
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  Speaker 1: for joy tenderly wept much one that he his love,
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  Speaker 1: had so ennobled as of choice to incur divine displeasure
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  Speaker 1: for her sake, or death in recompense for such compliance
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  Speaker 1: bad such recompense best merits from the bow. She gave
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  Speaker 1: him of that fair, enticing fruit with liberal hand. He
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  Speaker 1: scrupled not to eat, against his better knowledge. Not deceived,
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  Speaker 1: but fondly overcome with female charm. Earth trembled from her
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  Speaker 1: entrails as again in pangs, and nature gave a second groan,
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  Speaker 1: sky lowered and muttering thunder, Some sad drops wept at
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  Speaker 1: completing of the mortal sin original, while Adam took no
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  Speaker 1: thought eating his fill, nor Eve to iterate her former trespass,
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  Speaker 1: feared the more to soothe him with her loved society.
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  Speaker 1: That now, as with new wine, intoxicated, both they swim
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  Speaker 1: in mirth and fancy that they feel divinity within them,
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  Speaker 1: breeding wings wherewith to scorn the earth. But that false
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  Speaker 1: fruit far other operation first displayed Colonel desire. In flaming
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  Speaker 1: he on Eve began to cast lascivious eyes. She him
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  Speaker 1: as wantonly repaid in lust, they burn till Adam thus
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  Speaker 1: gan Eve to dalliance. Move Eve. Now I see thou
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  Speaker 1: art exact of taste and elegant of sapience, no small part,
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  Speaker 1: since to each meaning savor we apply and pallate call judicious.
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  Speaker 1: I the praise yield thee so well this day thou
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  Speaker 1: hast purveyed much pleasure we have lost while we abstained
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  Speaker 1: from this delightful fruit, nor known till now true relish tasting.
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  Speaker 1: If such pleasure be in things to us forbidden. It
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  Speaker 1: might be wished for this one tree had been forbidden
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  Speaker 1: ten but come so well refreshed. Now let us play
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  Speaker 1: as meat his after such delicious fair For never did
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  Speaker 1: thy beauty since the day I saw thee first and
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  Speaker 1: wetted thee adorned with all perfections, so inflame my sense
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  Speaker 1: with ardor to enjoy thee fairer now than ever bounty
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  Speaker 1: of this virtuous tree, so said he, And forbore not
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  Speaker 1: glance or toy of amorous intent. Well understood of Eve,
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  Speaker 1: whose eye darted contagious fire. Her hand he seized, And
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  Speaker 1: to a shady bank, thick overhead, with verdant roof embowered,
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  Speaker 1: he led her nothing loathe. Flowers were a couch, pansies
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  Speaker 1: and violets, and Asphodel and Hyacinth earth's freshest softest lap.
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  Speaker 1: There they their fill of love, and love's disport took
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  Speaker 1: largely of their mutual guilt, the seal the solace of
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: their sin, till dewy sleep oppressed them, wearied with their
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  Speaker 1: amorous play. Soon as the force of that fallacious fruit
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  Speaker 1: that with exhilarating vapor bland about their spirits had played,
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: and inmost powers made err was now exhaled, and grosser, sleep,
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  Speaker 1: bred of unkindly fumes, with conscious dreams encumbered, now had
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  Speaker 1: left them up. They rose as from unrest, and each
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  Speaker 1: the other viewing, soon found their eyes how opened, and
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: their minds how darkened. Innocence that as a veil had
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  Speaker 1: shadowed them from knowing, ill was gone, just confidence and
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  Speaker 1: native righteousness and honor from about them, Naked, left to
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  Speaker 1: guilty shame, he covered, but his robe uncovered. More so
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  Speaker 1: rose the Danite, strong, Herculean samson from the harlot lap
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  Speaker 1: of Philistine dolly law, and waked, shorn of his strength,
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  Speaker 1: they destitute and bare 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 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
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: shall I behold the face henceforth of God or angel
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: erst with joy and rapture so oft beheld those heavenly
• 29:51
  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 lad obscured,
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  Speaker 1: where highest woods impenetrable to star or sunlight, spread their
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  Speaker 1: umbrage broad and brown as evening cover me. Ye pines,
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  Speaker 1: ye cedars, with innumerable boughs, hide me where I may
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  Speaker 1: never see them more. But let us, now, as in
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  Speaker 1: bad plight, devise what best may for the present serve
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  Speaker 1: to hide the parts of each from other that seem
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  Speaker 1: most to shame, obnoxious and unseemlest scene. Some tree, whose broad,
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  Speaker 1: smooth leaves, together sowed and girded on our loins, may
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  Speaker 1: cover round those middle parts that this newcomer shame. There
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  Speaker 1: sit not and reproach us as unclean, So counseled he
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: and both together went into the thickest wood. There Soon
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: they chose the fig tree, not that kind for fruit renowned,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: but such as at this day to Indians known in
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: Malabar or Decan, spreads her arms, branching so broad and
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  Speaker 1: long that in the ground the bended twigs take root,
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  Speaker 1: and daughters grow about the mother tree. A pillared shade,
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  Speaker 1: high overarched and echoing walks between thereof the Indian herdsman,
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  Speaker 1: shunning heat, shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds
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  Speaker 1: at loop holes cut through thickest shade. Those leaves they gathered,
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  Speaker 1: broad as Amazonian targe, 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 gilt 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 elves and wild among
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  Speaker 1: the trees on ales 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 reined at their eyes, but
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  Speaker 1: high winds worse within began to rise, high passions, anger, hate,
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  Speaker 1: mistrust suspicion, discord, and shook sore their inward state of mind,
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  Speaker 1: calm region, once and full of peace, now tossed and turbulent.
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  Speaker 1: For 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 distemper'd
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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 imputest 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
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: he spake, no ground of enmity between us, known why
• 33:28
  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
• 33:35
  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 fix'd in
• 33:56
  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
• 34:10
  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
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: or to find matter of glorious trial. And perhaps I
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: also erred in overmuch, admiring what seemed in THEE so
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: perfect that I thought no evil durst attempt THEE. But
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: I rue that error now which is become my crime,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: and thou the accuser. Thus it shall befall him who
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  Speaker 1: to worth in women over trusting, lets her will rule restraint,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: she will not brook, and left to herself. If evil
• 35:10
  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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  Speaker 1: Book eight, Part two