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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Paradise Lost by John Milton, Book nine,
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  Speaker 1: Part two, the Argument the Proceedings of Sin and Death.
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  Speaker 1: God foretells the final victory of his son over them,
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  Speaker 1: and the renewing of all things, But for the present
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  Speaker 1: commands his angels to make several alterations in the heavens
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  Speaker 1: and elements. Adam more and more, perceiving his fallen condition,
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  Speaker 1: heavily bewails, rejects the condolement of Eve. She persists and
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  Speaker 1: at length appeases him. Then, to evade the curse likely
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  Speaker 1: to fall on their offspring, proposes to Adam violent ways,
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  Speaker 1: which he approves not, but conceiving better hope, puts her
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  Speaker 1: in mind of the late promise made them that her
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  Speaker 1: seed should be revenged on the serpent, and exhorts her
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  Speaker 1: with him to seek peace of the offended deity by
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  Speaker 1: repentance and supplication. Meanwhile, in Paradise, the hellish pair too
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  Speaker 1: soon arrived sin therein power before once actual now in body,
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  Speaker 1: and to dwell habitual habitant behind her death close following
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  Speaker 1: pace for pace not mounted yet on his pale horse,
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  Speaker 1: to whom Sin thus began, second of Satan sprung all
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  Speaker 1: conquering death. What think'st thou of our empire now, though
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  Speaker 1: earned with trabile difficult, not better far than still at
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  Speaker 1: Hell's dark threshold, to have sat watch, unnamed, undreaded, and
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  Speaker 1: thyself half starved. Whom thus the sin born monster answered
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  Speaker 1: soon to me, who, with eternal famine pine alike, is
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  Speaker 1: Hell or Paradise or heath their best where most with
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  Speaker 1: ravin I may meet, which here, though plenteous, all too
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  Speaker 1: little seems to stuff this more, this vast, unhide bound corpse,
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  Speaker 1: to whom the incestuous mother thus replied, thou. Therefore on
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  Speaker 1: these herbs and fruits and flowers, feed first on each
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  Speaker 1: beast next, and fish and fowl, no homely morsels, and
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  Speaker 1: whatever thing the scythe of time mows down, devour unspared,
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  Speaker 1: till I in man, residing through the race. His thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: his looks, words, actions all infect and season him thy
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  Speaker 1: last and sweetest prey. This said. They both betook them
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  Speaker 1: several ways, both to destroy or unimmortal make all kinds,
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  Speaker 1: and for destruction to mature sooner or later, which Thou Almighty,
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  Speaker 1: seeing from his transcendent seat the saints among to those
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  Speaker 1: bright orders, uttered thus his voice, See with what heat
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  Speaker 1: these dogs of Hell advance to waste and have it
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  Speaker 1: yonder world, which I, so fair and good created, and
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  Speaker 1: had still kept in that state, had not the folly
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  Speaker 1: of man let in these wasteful furies who impute folly
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  Speaker 1: to me. So doth the Prince of Hell and his adhorrance, that,
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  Speaker 1: with so much ease I suffer them to enter and
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  Speaker 1: possess a place so heavenly and conniving, seem to gratify
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  Speaker 1: my scornful enemies, that laugh, as if transported with some
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  Speaker 1: fit of passion, I to them had quitted all at random,
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  Speaker 1: yielded up to their misrule, And know not that I
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  Speaker 1: call'd and drew them thither my hell hounds, to lick
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  Speaker 1: up the draft and filth which man's polluting sin with
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  Speaker 1: taint hath shed on what was pure, till crammed and gorg'd,
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  Speaker 1: nigh burst with suck'd and glutted offal at one sling
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  Speaker 1: of thy victorious arm well, pleasing son both sin and death,
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  Speaker 1: and yawning grave at last through chaos, hurld obstruct the
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  Speaker 1: mouth of Hell for ever and seal up his ravenous jaws.
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  Speaker 1: Then Heaven and Earth renewed shall be made pure to sanctity,
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  Speaker 1: that shall receive no stain till then the curse pronounced
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  Speaker 1: on both proceeds he ended, and the heavenly audience loud
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  Speaker 1: sung Hallelujah, as the sound of seas through multitude that sung.
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  Speaker 1: Just are Thy ways, righteous, are Thy decrees on all
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  Speaker 1: thy works? Who can extenuate thee next to the sun
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  Speaker 1: destined restorer of mankind, by whom you Heaven and Earth,
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  Speaker 1: shall to the age's rise, or down from Heaven descend.
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  Speaker 1: Such was their song, while the Creator, calling forth by
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  Speaker 1: name his mighty angels, gave them several charge as sorted
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  Speaker 1: best with present things. The Sun had first his precepts,
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  Speaker 1: so to move so shine as might effect the earth
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  Speaker 1: with cold and heat scarce tolerable, and from the north
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  Speaker 1: to cool decrepit winter, from the south to bring solsticial
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  Speaker 1: summer's heat to the blank moon her office. They prescribed
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  Speaker 1: to the other five their planetary motions and aspects in sextile,
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  Speaker 1: square and trine and opposite of noxious efficacy, and when
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  Speaker 1: to join in sinnred unbeign, and taught the fixed their
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  Speaker 1: influence malignant when to shower, which of them, rising with
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  Speaker 1: the sun or falling should prove tempestuous to the winds,
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  Speaker 1: They set their corners. When with blusters too confound sea,
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  Speaker 1: air and shore, the thunder went to roll with terror
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  Speaker 1: through the darker aerial hall. Some say he bid his
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  Speaker 1: angels turn askance the poles of Earth twice ten degrees
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  Speaker 1: and more from the Sun's axle. They with labor pushed
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  Speaker 1: oblique the centric globe. Some say the Sun was bid
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  Speaker 1: turned rains from the quinoctial road like distant Breadth to Taurus,
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  Speaker 1: with the seven Atlantic Sisters and the Spartan twins up
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  Speaker 1: to the Tropic crab, thence down a main by Leo
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  Speaker 1: and the Virgin, and the scales as deep as Capricorn,
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  Speaker 1: to bring in change of seasons to each climb. Else
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  Speaker 1: had the spring perpetual smiled on Earth, with vernant flowers
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  Speaker 1: equal in days and nights, except to those beyond the
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  Speaker 1: polar circles. To them, day had unbeknighted shone, while the
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  Speaker 1: low sun, to recompense his distance in their sight, had
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  Speaker 1: rounded still the horizon and not known of east or west,
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  Speaker 1: which had forbid the snow from cold as stotty Land,
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  Speaker 1: and south as far beneath mcgellen at that tasted fruit,
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  Speaker 1: the sun, as from Thyestian banquet, turned his course intended
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  Speaker 1: else How had the world inhabited, though sinless, more than
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  Speaker 1: now avoided pinching cold and scorching heat. Changes in the heavens,
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  Speaker 1: though slow, produced like change on sea and land, sidiral blast,
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  Speaker 1: vapor and mist and exhalation, hot, corrupt and pestilent. Now
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  Speaker 1: from the north of Norumbega and the Samoyed shore, bursting
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  Speaker 1: their brazen dungeon, armed with ice and snow and hail
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  Speaker 1: and stormy gust and floor Boreus and Kaikios, and our
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  Speaker 1: guestes loud and Thrascius rend the woods and seas upturn
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  Speaker 1: with adverse blast, upturns them from the south, Notus and
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  Speaker 1: Apha black with thundrous clouds, from Sera Leonia, thwart of
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  Speaker 1: these as fierce forth rush the leavant and the ponent
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  Speaker 1: winds Eurus and Zephyr, with their lateral noise. Sirocco and Libecco.
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  Speaker 1: Thus began outrage from liveless things, but discord first daughter
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  Speaker 1: of sin among the rational death introduced through fierce antipathy.
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  Speaker 1: Beast now with beast, and and foul with foul, and
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  Speaker 1: fish with fish to graze the herb, all leaving devoured
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  Speaker 1: each other, nor stood much in awe of man, but
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  Speaker 1: fled him, or with countenance grim glared on him passing.
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  Speaker 1: These were from without the growing miseries which Adam saw
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  Speaker 1: already in part, though hid in gloomiest shade to sorrow, abandoned,
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  Speaker 1: but worse felt within and in a troubled sea of passion,
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  Speaker 1: tossed thus to disburden sort with sad complaint, Oh, miserable
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  Speaker 1: of happy? Is this the end of this new glorious world?
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  Speaker 1: And me so late the glory of that glory, who
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  Speaker 1: now become a cursed of blest Hide me from the
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  Speaker 1: face of God, whom to behold was then my height
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  Speaker 1: of happiness. Yet well, if here would end the misery,
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  Speaker 1: I deserved it, and would bear my own deservings. But
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  Speaker 1: this will not serve. All that I eat, or drink
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  Speaker 1: or shall beget is propagated curse voice once heard, delightfully
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  Speaker 1: increase and multiply, Now death to hear, For what can
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  Speaker 1: I increase or multiply, but curses on my head, who
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  Speaker 1: of all ages to succeed, but feeling the evil on
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  Speaker 1: him brought by me, will curse my head ill fare
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  Speaker 1: our ancestor impure. For this we may thank Adam Bud.
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  Speaker 1: His thanks shall be the execration, so besides mine own
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  Speaker 1: that bide upon me, all from me shall with a
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  Speaker 1: fierce reflux on me redowned on me as on their
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  Speaker 1: natural center light heavy though in their place, oh, fleeting
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  Speaker 1: joys of paradise, dear bought with lasting woes? Did I
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  Speaker 1: request thee maker from my clay to mold me? Man?
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  Speaker 1: Did I solicit thee from darkness to promote me? Or
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  Speaker 1: here place in this delicious garden, as my will concurred
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  Speaker 1: not to my being, it were but right and equal
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  Speaker 1: to reduce me to my dust, desirous to resign and
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  Speaker 1: render back all I received, unable to perform thy terms
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  Speaker 1: too hard by which I was to hold the good
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  Speaker 1: I sought, not to the loss of that sufficient penalty.
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  Speaker 1: Why hast thou added the sense of endless woes inexplicable?
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  Speaker 1: Thy justice seems yet to say truth too late? I
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  Speaker 1: thus contest, then, should have been refused those terms whatever
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  Speaker 1: when they were proposed, Thou didst accept them? Wilt thou
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  Speaker 1: enjoy the good? Then cavil the conditions? And though God
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  Speaker 1: made THEE without thy leave? What if thy son proved
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  Speaker 1: disobedient and reprov'd retort? Wherefore didst thou beget me? I
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  Speaker 1: sought it? Not? Wouldst thou admit for his contempt of
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  Speaker 1: thee that proud excuse yet him, not thy election, but
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  Speaker 1: natural necessity begot God made thee of choice, his own,
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  Speaker 1: and of his own to serve him. Thy reward was
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  Speaker 1: of his grace. Thy punishment, then justly is at his will?
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  Speaker 1: Be it so for I submit his doom? Is fair
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  Speaker 1: that dust I am, and shall to dust returned, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: welcome hour whenever? Why delays his hand to execute what
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  Speaker 1: his decree fixed on this day? Why do I overlive?
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  Speaker 1: Why am I mocked with death and lengthened out to
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  Speaker 1: deathless pain? How gladly would I meet mortality my sentence
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  Speaker 1: and be earth insensible? How glad would lay me down
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  Speaker 1: as in my mother's lap? There I should rest and
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  Speaker 1: sleep secure his dreadful voice. No more with thunder in
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  Speaker 1: my ears, no fear of worse to me and to
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  Speaker 1: my offspring. Would torment me with cruel expectation. Yet one
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  Speaker 1: doubt pursues me still lest all I cannot die, lest
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  Speaker 1: that pure breath of life, the spirit of man, which
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  Speaker 1: God inspired, cannot together perish with this corporeal clod. Then
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  Speaker 1: in the grave or in some other dismal place. Who knows,
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  Speaker 1: But I shall die a living death? Oh thought horrid?
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  Speaker 1: If true? Yet why it was but breath of life
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  Speaker 1: that sinned? What dies? But what had life? And sin?
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  Speaker 1: The body? Properly? Hath neither all of me then shall die?
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  Speaker 1: This appeased the doubt, since humane reach no further knows.
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  Speaker 1: For though the Lord of all be infinite, is his
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  Speaker 1: wrath also be it? Man is not so but mortal doomed.
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  Speaker 1: How can he exercise wrath without end on man whom
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  Speaker 1: death must end? Can he make deathless? Death? That were
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  Speaker 1: to make strange contradiction, which to God himself impossible, is
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  Speaker 1: held as argument of weakness, not of power. Will he
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  Speaker 1: draw out, for anger's sake finite to infinite in punished man,
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  Speaker 1: to satisfy his rigor satisfied, Never that were to extend
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  Speaker 1: his sentence beyond dust and nature's law by which all
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  Speaker 1: causes else according still to the reception of their matter,
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  Speaker 1: act not to the extent of their own sphere. But
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  Speaker 1: say that death be not one's stroke, as I supposed,
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  Speaker 1: bereaving sense, but endless misery from this day onward, which
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  Speaker 1: I feel begun both in me and without me, and
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  Speaker 1: so last to perpetuity me that fear comes thundering back
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  Speaker 1: with dreadful revolution on my defenseless head. Both death and
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  Speaker 1: eye are found eternal and incorporate both, Nor I on
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  Speaker 1: my part single in me, all posterity stands cursed fair
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  Speaker 1: patrimony that I must lead Ye sons, Oh, were I
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  Speaker 1: able to waste it all myself and leave ye none
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  Speaker 1: so disinherited, how would ye bless me now your curse? Ah?
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  Speaker 1: Why should all mankind for one man's fault, thus guiltless
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  Speaker 1: be condemned? If guiltless but from me, what can proceed
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  Speaker 1: but all corrupt, both mind and will depraved? Not to
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  Speaker 1: do only but to will the same with me? How
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  Speaker 1: can they acquitted stand in sight of God Him? After
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  Speaker 1: all disputes forced, I absolve all my evasions, vain and reasonings,
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  Speaker 1: though through mazes leads me still, but to my own
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  Speaker 1: conviction first and last on me me only as the
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  Speaker 1: source and spring of all corruption, all the blame lights
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  Speaker 1: due so might the fond wish, couldst thou support that
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  Speaker 1: burden heavier than the earth to bear than all the world,
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  Speaker 1: much heavier though divided with that bad woman. Thus what
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  Speaker 1: thou desist, and what thou fiercet alight, destroys all hope
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  Speaker 1: of refuge and concludes thee miserable beyond all past, example
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  Speaker 1: and future to satan only like both crime and doom,
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  Speaker 1: O conscience, into what abyss of fears and horrors hast
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  Speaker 1: thou driven me, out of which I find no way,
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  Speaker 1: but deep to deeper plunged. Thus Adam to himself lamented
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  Speaker 1: loud through the still night, not now as air man
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  Speaker 1: fell wholesome and cool and mild, but with black air,
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  Speaker 1: accompanied with damps and dreadful gloom, which to his evil
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  Speaker 1: conscience represented all things with double terror. On the ground outstretched,
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  Speaker 1: he lay on the cold ground, and Oft cursed his
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  Speaker 1: creation death, as Oft accused of tardy execution, since denounced
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  Speaker 1: the day of his offense, Why comes not death? Said he,
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  Speaker 1: with one thrice acceptable stroke to end me? Shall truth
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  Speaker 1: fail to keep her word? Justice divine not hastened to
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  Speaker 1: be just, but death comes not at call. Justice Divine
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  Speaker 1: mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries o woods,
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  Speaker 1: old fountains, hillocks, dales, and bowers with other echo late,
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  Speaker 1: I tort your shades to answer and resound far other song,
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  Speaker 1: whom thus afflicted. When sad Eve beheld desolate where she sat,
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  Speaker 1: approaching nigh soft words to his fierce passion, she essayed,
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  Speaker 1: But her with stern regard, he thus repelled out of
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  Speaker 1: my sight. Thou, serpent, that name best befits THEE. With him,
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  Speaker 1: lead thyself as al and hateful. Nothing wants but that
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  Speaker 1: thy shape, like his and color serpentine, may show thy
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  Speaker 1: inward fraud to warn all creatures from thee. Henceforth, lest
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  Speaker 1: that too heavenly form pretended to hellish falsehood sneer them.
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  Speaker 1: But for THEE I had persisted happy, had not thy
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  Speaker 1: pride and wandering vanity when least was safe, rejected my
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  Speaker 1: fore warning and disdained not to be trusted, longing to
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  Speaker 1: be seen though by the devil himself, him overweening to overreach.
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  Speaker 1: But with the serpent meeting fooled and beguiled by him,
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  Speaker 1: Thou aye by THEE to trust thee from my side,
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  Speaker 1: imagined wise, constant, mature, proof against all assaults, and understood
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  Speaker 1: not all was but a show rather than solid virtue,
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  Speaker 1: all but a rib crooked by nature, bent as now
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  Speaker 1: appears more to the part sinister from me, drawn well,
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  Speaker 1: if thrown out as supernumerus to my just number, found
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  Speaker 1: a Why did God create a wise that peopled highest
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  Speaker 1: heaven with spirits masculine, Create at last this novelty on earth,
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  Speaker 1: this fair defect of nature, and not fill the world
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  Speaker 1: at once with men as angels without feminine, or find
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  Speaker 1: some other way to generate mankind. This mischief had not
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  Speaker 1: then befallen, and more that shall befall innumerable disturbances on
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  Speaker 1: earth through female snares and straight conjunction with his sex.
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  Speaker 1: For either he never shall find out fit mate, but
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  Speaker 1: such as some misfortune brings him, or mistake, or whom
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  Speaker 1: he wishes most, shall seldom gain through her perverseness, but
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  Speaker 1: shall see her gained by a far worse Or if
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  Speaker 1: she love withheld by parents, or his happiest choice too late,
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  Speaker 1: shall meet already linked and wedlock bound to a fell
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  Speaker 1: adversary his hate or shame, which infinite calamities shall calls
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  Speaker 1: to human life and household peace confound, he added not,
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  Speaker 1: and from her turn, but Eve not so repulsed with
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  Speaker 1: tears that ceased not flowing, and tresses all disordered at
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  Speaker 1: his feet, fell humble, and embracing them, besought his peace,
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  Speaker 1: and thus preceded in her plaint. Forsake me not Thus
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  Speaker 1: Adam witness Heaven, what love sincere and reverence in my
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  Speaker 1: heart I bear thee and unwitting have offended, unhappily deceived,
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  Speaker 1: Thy suppliant, I beg and clasp thy knees, bereave me
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  Speaker 1: not whereon I live, Thy gentle looks, thy aid, thy counsel.
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  Speaker 1: In this uttermost distress my only strength, and stay forlorn
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  Speaker 1: of thee. Whither shall I betake me where subsist, while
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  Speaker 1: yet we live scarce one short hour perhaps between us two,
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  Speaker 1: Let there be peace, both joining as joined in injuries,
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  Speaker 1: one enmity against a foe by doom express assigned us
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  Speaker 1: that cruel serpent on me. Exercise thy hatred for this
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  Speaker 1: misery befam on me, already lost me than thyself, more
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  Speaker 1: miserable both of sin, But thou against God only I
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  Speaker 1: against God, and thee, and to the place of judgment,
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  Speaker 1: will return therewith my cries in fortune heaven, that all
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  Speaker 1: the sentence from thy head removed may light on me
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  Speaker 1: sole cause to THEE of all this woe me me
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  Speaker 1: only just object of all his ire. She ended, weeping,
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  Speaker 1: and her lowly plight immovable, till peace obtained from fault
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  Speaker 1: acknowledged and deplored in Adam wrought commiseration. Soon his heart
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  Speaker 1: relented towards her, his life so late, and soul delight
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  Speaker 1: now at his feet, submissive in distress, creature so fair,
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  Speaker 1: his reconcilement, seeking his counsel, whom she had displeased, his
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  Speaker 1: aid as one disarmed his anger, all he lost, and thus,
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  Speaker 1: with peaceful words upraised her. Soon and where gry and
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  Speaker 1: too desirous as before, So now of what thou know'st not,
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  Speaker 1: who disast the punishment all on thyself, alas bear thine
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  Speaker 1: own first, ill able to sustain his full wrath, Whose
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  Speaker 1: thou feel'st as yet least part, and my displeasure be'st
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  Speaker 1: So ill, if prayers could alter high decrees, I to
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  Speaker 1: that place, would speed before THEE and be louder heard
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  Speaker 1: that on my head all might be visited, thy frouty
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  Speaker 1: and infirmer sex forgiven to me, committed and by me exposed.
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  Speaker 1: But rise, Let us no more contend or blame each other,
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  Speaker 1: blamed enough elsewhere, but strive in offices of love, how
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  Speaker 1: we may lighten each other's burden in our share of woe.
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  Speaker 1: Since this day's death denounced, if aught, I see will
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  Speaker 1: prove no sudden but a slow pacede evil, a long
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  Speaker 1: day's dying, to augment our pain, and to our seed,
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  Speaker 1: O hapless seed derived to whom thus eve recovering heart,
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  Speaker 1: replied Adam, by sad experiment, I know how little weight
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  Speaker 1: my words with THEE confined found so erroneous, thence by
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  Speaker 1: just event found so unfortunate, nevertheless restored by THEE vile.
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  Speaker 1: As I am to place of new acceptance, hopeful to
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  Speaker 1: regain thy love, the sole contentment of my heart, living
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  Speaker 1: or dying from THEE, I will not hide what thoughts
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  Speaker 1: in my unquiet breast are risen tending to some relief
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  Speaker 1: of our extremes or end, though sharp and sad, yet
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  Speaker 1: tolerable as in our evils, and of easier choice, if
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  Speaker 1: care of our descent perplex us most which must be
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  Speaker 1: borne to certain woe, devoured by death at last, and
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  Speaker 1: miserable it is to be to others cause of misery
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  Speaker 1: our own begotten and of our loins, to bring into
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  Speaker 1: this cursed world a woeful race that, after wretched life,
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  Speaker 1: must be at last food for so foul a monster
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  Speaker 1: in thy power. It lie as yet ere conception to
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  Speaker 1: prevent the race unblest, to being yet unbegot childless. Thou
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  Speaker 1: art childless, remain so death shall be deceiv'd his glut,
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  Speaker 1: and with us too be forced to satisfy his ravenous more.
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  Speaker 1: But if thou judge it hard and difficult conversing looking loving,
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  Speaker 1: to abstain from love's do rights, nuptial embraces sweet and
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  Speaker 1: with desire, to languish without hope before the present object,
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  Speaker 1: languishing with light desire, which would be misery and torment,
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  Speaker 1: less than none of what we dread. Then both ourselves
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  Speaker 1: and seed at once to free from what we fear.
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  Speaker 1: For both, let us make short. Let us seek death
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  Speaker 1: or he not found supply with our own hands his
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  Speaker 1: office on ourselves. Why stand we longer shivering under fears
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  Speaker 1: that show no end but death, and have the power
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  Speaker 1: of many ways to die the shortest, choosing destruction with
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  Speaker 1: destruction to destroy, she ended here, or vehement despair broke
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  Speaker 1: off the rest so much of death her thoughts had entertained,
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  Speaker 1: as dyed her cheeks with pale. But Adam with such
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  Speaker 1: counsel nothing swayed to better hopes. His more attentive mind
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  Speaker 1: laboring had raised. And thus to Eve replied, Eve, thy
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  Speaker 1: contempt of life and pleasure seems to argue in THEE
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  Speaker 1: something more sublime and excellent than what thy mind condemns,
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  Speaker 1: but self destruction. Thereforsought refutes that excellence thought in THEE,
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  Speaker 1: and implies not thy contempt, but anguish and regret for
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  Speaker 1: loss of life and pleasure over loved. Or if thou
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  Speaker 1: covet death as utmost end of misery, so thinking to
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  Speaker 1: evade the penalty, pronounced doubt not. But God hath wiselier
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  Speaker 1: armed his vengeful are than so to be forestalled much
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  Speaker 1: more I fear lest death, So snatch'd will not exempt
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  Speaker 1: us from the pain we are by doom to pay. Rather,
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  Speaker 1: such acts of contumacy will revoke the highest to make
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  Speaker 1: death in us live. Then let us seek some safer resolution,
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  Speaker 1: which methinks I have in view, calling to mind with
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  Speaker 1: heed part of our sentence that thy seed shall bruise
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  Speaker 1: the serpent's head. Piteous amends unless be meant whom I
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  Speaker 1: conjecture our grand foe, Satan, who in the serpent hath
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  Speaker 1: contrived against us. This deceit to crush his head, would
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  Speaker 1: be revenge, indeed, which will be lost by death brought
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  Speaker 1: on ourselves or childish days resolved as thou proposest, so
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  Speaker 1: our foe shall escape his punishment ordained, and we instead
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  Speaker 1: shall double hours upon our heads. No more be mentioned
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  Speaker 1: than of violence against ourselves and wilful barrenness that cuts
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  Speaker 1: us off from hope, and save us only rancor and pride, impatience,
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  Speaker 1: and despite reluctance against God and his just yoke laid
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  Speaker 1: on our necks. Remember with what mild and gracious temper
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  Speaker 1: he both heard and judged, without wrath or reviling. We
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  Speaker 1: expected immediate dissolution, which we thought was meant by death
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  Speaker 1: that day, when low to thee pains only in child
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  Speaker 1: bearing were foretold and bringing forth soon recompensed with joy
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  Speaker 1: fruit of Thy womb on me. The curse of slope
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  Speaker 1: glanced on the ground with labor I must earn my bread.
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  Speaker 1: What harm idleness had been worse. My labor will sustain me,
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  Speaker 1: and less cold or heat should injure us his timely
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  Speaker 1: care hath unbesought provided, and his hands clothed us unworthy
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  Speaker 1: pitying while he judged. How much more if we pray him,
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  Speaker 1: will his ear be open and his heart to pity
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  Speaker 1: incline and teach us further by what means to shun
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  Speaker 1: th inclement seasons, rain, ice, hail, and snow, which now
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  Speaker 1: the sky with various face begins to show us in
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  Speaker 1: this mountain, while the winds blow, moist and keen, shattering
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  Speaker 1: the graceful locks of these fair spreading trees, which bids
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  Speaker 1: us seek some better shroud, some better warmth, to cherish
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  Speaker 1: our limbs benumbed ere this diurnal star leave cold the night.
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  Speaker 1: How we his gathered beams reflected may with matter sear foment,
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  Speaker 1: or by collision of two bodies, grind the air atrite
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  Speaker 1: to fire. As late the clouds ustling or pushed with
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  Speaker 1: winds rude in their shock, tying the slant lightning, whose
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  Speaker 1: thwart flame driven down, kindles the gummy bark of fir
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  Speaker 1: or pine, and sends a comfortable heat from far, which
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  Speaker 1: might supply the sun such fire to use, and what
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  Speaker 1: may else be remedy or cure to evils which our
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  Speaker 1: own misdeeds are brought. He will instruct us praying and
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  Speaker 1: of grace, beseeching him, so as we need not fear
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  Speaker 1: to pass commodiously this life sustained by him with many comforts,
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  Speaker 1: till we end in dust, our final rest and native home.
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  Speaker 1: What can we do than to the place repairing where
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  Speaker 1: he judged us prostrate fall before him, reverent, and there
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  Speaker 1: confess humbly our faults and pardon beg with tears, watering
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  Speaker 1: the ground, and with our sighs the air frequenting sent
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  Speaker 1: from heart's contrite, in sign of sorrow unfeigned and humiliation meek.
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  Speaker 1: Undoubtedly he will relent and turn from his displeasure, in
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  Speaker 1: whose look serene, when angry most he seemed, and most severe,
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  Speaker 1: What else but favor, grace and mercy shone, So spake
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  Speaker 1: our father, penitent nor eve felt less remorse. They forthwith
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  Speaker 1: to the place repairing where he judged them prostrate, fell
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  Speaker 1: before him, reverent, and both confessed humbly their faults and
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  Speaker 1: pardon begged with tears watering the ground, and with their
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  Speaker 1: sighs the air frequenting sent from heart's contrite, in sign
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  Speaker 1: of sorrow, unfeigned and humiliation. Meet and of Part two
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  Speaker 1: of Book nine of Paradise Lost by John Milton