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017 - Book Nine Part 1 · Paradise Lost

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  Speaker 1: This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in
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  Speaker 1: visit LibriVox dot org. Paradise Lost by John Milton, Book nine,
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  Speaker 1: Part one, The argument Man's transgression known the Guardian Angels
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  Speaker 1: for Saint Paradise and return up to Heaven to approve
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  Speaker 1: their vigilance, and are approved. God, declaring that the entrance
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  Speaker 1: of Satan could not be by them prevented, he sends
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  Speaker 1: his son to judge the transgressors, who descends and give
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  Speaker 1: sentence accordingly. Then, in pity, clothes them both and reascends
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  Speaker 1: sin and death, sitting till then at the gates of
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  Speaker 1: Hell by wondrous sympathy, feeling the success of Satan in
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  Speaker 1: this new world and the sin by man there committed,
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  Speaker 1: resolved to sit no longer confine in Hell, but to
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  Speaker 1: follow Satan, their sire, up to the place of man.
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  Speaker 1: To make the way easier from Hell to this world,
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  Speaker 1: to and fro they pave a broad highway or bridge
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  Speaker 1: over chaos, according to the trap that Satan first made. Then,
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  Speaker 1: preparing for Earth, they meet him, proud of his success.
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  Speaker 1: Returning to Hell, their mutual gratulation. Satan arrives at Pandemonium
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  Speaker 1: in full assembly, relates with boasting his success against man.
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  Speaker 1: Instead of applause, is entertained with a general hiss by
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  Speaker 1: all his audience transformed with himself also suddenly into serpents,
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  Speaker 1: according to his doom given in Paradise. Then deluded with
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  Speaker 1: a shower of the forbidden tree springing up before them,
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  Speaker 1: they greedily reaching to take of the fruit, chew dust
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  Speaker 1: and bitter ashes. Meanwhile, the heinous un despiteful act of
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  Speaker 1: Satan done in Paradise, and how he in the serpent,
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  Speaker 1: had perverted Eve her husband, she to taste the fatal
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  Speaker 1: fruit was known in heaven. For what can scape the
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  Speaker 1: eye of God all seeing, or deceive his heart omniscient, who,
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  Speaker 1: in all things wise and just hindered not Satan to
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  Speaker 1: attempt the mind of man with strength, in tire and free,
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  Speaker 1: well armed, complete to have discovered and repulsed whatever whiles
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  Speaker 1: of foe or seeming friend. For still they knew and
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  Speaker 1: ought to have still remembered the high injunction not to
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  Speaker 1: taste that fruit. Whoever tempted, which they, not obeying incurred.
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  Speaker 1: What could they less the penalty and manifolding sin deserved
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  Speaker 1: to fall up into Heaven from paradise in haste. The
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  Speaker 1: angelic guards ascended, mute and sad for man for of
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  Speaker 1: his state. By this they knew much, wondering how the
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  Speaker 1: subtle fiend had stolen entrance unseen. Soon as th unwelcome
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  Speaker 1: news from Earth arrived at heaven gate, displeased all were
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  Speaker 1: who heard dim sadness did not spare that time celestial visages,
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  Speaker 1: yet mix'd with pity, violated not their bliss about the
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  Speaker 1: new arrived in multitudes. The ethereal people ran to hear
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  Speaker 1: and know how all befell They towards the throne Supreme accountable,
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  Speaker 1: made haste to make appear with righteous plea their utmost vigilance,
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  Speaker 1: and easily approv'd when the most High Eternal Father, from
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  Speaker 1: his secret cloud amidst in thunder uttered, Thus his voice
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  Speaker 1: assembled angels, and yet powers returned from unsuccessful charge. Be
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  Speaker 1: not dismayed nor troubled at these tidings from Earth, which
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  Speaker 1: your sincerest care could not prevent. Foretold so lately, what
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  Speaker 1: would come to pass when first this tempter crossed the
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  Speaker 1: gulf from Hell? I told ye, then he should prevail
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  Speaker 1: and speed on his bad errand man should be seduced
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  Speaker 1: and flattered out of all believing lies against his maker.
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  Speaker 1: No decree of mine concurring to necessitate his fall, or
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  Speaker 1: touch with the lightest moment of impulse, his free will
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  Speaker 1: to her own inclining left in even scale. But fallen
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  Speaker 1: he is. And now what rests but that the mortal
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  Speaker 1: sentence pass on his transgression, death denounced that day, which
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  Speaker 1: he presumes already vain and void, because not yet inflicted
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  Speaker 1: as he feared by some immediate stroke, but soon shall
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  Speaker 1: find forbearance no acquittance ere day end. Justice shall not
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  Speaker 1: return as bounty scorned. But whom send I to judge them?
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  Speaker 1: Whom but thee vice regent son to THEE. I have
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  Speaker 1: transferred all judgment, whether in heaven or earth or hell.
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  Speaker 1: Easy it may be seen that I intend mercy, colleague
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  Speaker 1: with justice, sending thee man's friend, his mediator, his design
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  Speaker 1: both ransom and redeemer, voluntary and destined man himself to
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  Speaker 1: judge man fallen. So spake the Father and unfolding bright
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  Speaker 1: towards the right hand, his glory on the sun blazed
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  Speaker 1: forth unclouded deity, he full resplendent all his Father manifest expressed,
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  Speaker 1: and thus divinely answered, mild Father, eternal Thine is to
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  Speaker 1: decree mine, both in heaven and earth, to do thy
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  Speaker 1: will supreme, that thou in me, thy son beloved, mayst
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  Speaker 1: ever rest well pleased. I go to judge on earth
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  Speaker 1: these thy transgressors. But thou knowest whoever judged the worst
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  Speaker 1: on me most light, when time shall be for so
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  Speaker 1: I undertook before THEE, and not repenting this obtain of right,
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  Speaker 1: that I may mitigate their doom on me derived Yet
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  Speaker 1: I shall temper so justice with mercy as may illustrate
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  Speaker 1: most them fully satisfied, and THEE appease attendance. None shall
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  Speaker 1: need nor train where none are to behold the judgment,
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  Speaker 1: but the judged those two. The third best absence is condemned,
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  Speaker 1: convict by flight and rebel to all law. Conviction to
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  Speaker 1: the serpent, none belongs. Thus, saying, from his radiant seat,
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  Speaker 1: he rose of high collateral glory him thrones and powers,
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  Speaker 1: princedoms and dominations. Ministrant accompanied to heaven gate. From whence
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  Speaker 1: Eden and all the coast in prospect lay down, he
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  Speaker 1: descended straight. The speed of God's time counts not, though
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  Speaker 1: with the swiftest minutes winged. Now was the sun in
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  Speaker 1: western cadence low from noon, and gentle heirs due at
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  Speaker 1: their hour to fan the earth now waked and usher
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  Speaker 1: in the evening cool. When he, from wrath more cool,
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  Speaker 1: came the mild judge and intercessor both to sentence man
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  Speaker 1: the voice of God they heard, now walking in the
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  Speaker 1: garden by soft winds brought to their ears while day declined,
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  Speaker 1: they heard, and from his presence hid themselves among the
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  Speaker 1: thickest trees, both man and wife, till God approaching Thus
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  Speaker 1: to Adam, called aloud, Where art thou, Adam, wont with
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  Speaker 1: joy to meet my coming? Seen far off? I miss
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  Speaker 1: thee here not please? Thus entertained with solitude where obvious
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  Speaker 1: duty erewhile appeared unsought, Or come I less conspicuous? Or
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  Speaker 1: what change absents thee? Or what chance detains come forth?
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  Speaker 1: He came, and with him Eve more loathe, though first
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  Speaker 1: to offend, discountenanced both and discomposed. Love was not in
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  Speaker 1: their looks, either to God or to each other, but
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  Speaker 1: apparent guilt and shame, and perturbation and despair, anger and obstinacy,
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  Speaker 1: and hate and guile. Whence Adam faltering long, thus answered brief,
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  Speaker 1: I heard THEE in the garden, and of thy voice, afraid,
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  Speaker 1: being naked, hid myself to whom the gracious judge, without revile,
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  Speaker 1: replied my voice. Thou oftest heard, and hast not feared,
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  Speaker 1: but still rejoiced. How is it now become so dreadful
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  Speaker 1: to THEE that thou art naked? Who hath told thee?
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  Speaker 1: Hast thou eaten of the tree whereof I gave THEE charge?
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  Speaker 1: Thou shouldst not eat to whom? Thus Adam sore beset replied,
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  Speaker 1: Oh heaven, in evil strait, this day I stand before
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  Speaker 1: my judge, either to undergo myself the total crime, or
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  Speaker 1: to accuse my other self, the partner of my life,
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  Speaker 1: whose failing, while her faith to me remains, I should
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  Speaker 1: conceal and not exposed to blame by my complaint. But
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  Speaker 1: strict necessity subdues me, and calamitous constraint lest on my head.
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  Speaker 1: Both sin and punishment, however insupportable, be all devolved. Though
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  Speaker 1: should I hold my peace, Yet thou wouldst easily detect
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  Speaker 1: what I conceal. This woman, who thou madest to be
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  Speaker 1: my help and gave me as thy perfect gift so good,
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  Speaker 1: so fit, so acceptable, so divine, that from her hand
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  Speaker 1: I could suspect no ill. And what she did whatever,
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  Speaker 1: in itself, her doings seemed to justify the deed she
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  Speaker 1: gave me of the tree, and I did eat to
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  Speaker 1: whom the sovereign presence thus replied, was she thy God
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  Speaker 1: that her thou didst obey before his voice? Or was
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  Speaker 1: she made thy guide superior? Or but equal that to her?
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  Speaker 1: Thou didst resign thy manhood? And the place wherein God
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  Speaker 1: set thee above her, made of thee, and for thee,
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  Speaker 1: whose perfection far excelled hers in all real dignity adorned
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  Speaker 1: she was indeed and lovely to attract thy love, not
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  Speaker 1: thy subjection. And her gifts were such as under government
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  Speaker 1: well seemed unseemly to bear rule, which was thy part
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  Speaker 1: and person. Hadst thou known thyself aright? So having said
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  Speaker 1: he thus to Eve in few, say, woman, what is
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  Speaker 1: this which thou hast done to whom sad Eve with
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  Speaker 1: shame nigh overwhelm'd, confessing soon yet not before her judge
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  Speaker 1: bold or aquacious, thus abashed replied, the serpent me beguiled,
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  Speaker 1: and I did eat, which when the Lord God heard
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  Speaker 1: without delay to judgment. He proceeded on the cues serpent,
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  Speaker 1: though brute, unable to transfer the guilt on him, who
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  Speaker 1: made him instrument of mischief and polluted from the end
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  Speaker 1: of his creation, justly then accursed as vitiated in nature
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  Speaker 1: more to know, concerned not man, since he no further
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  Speaker 1: new nor alter'd his offense. Yet God at last to
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  Speaker 1: Satan first in sin, his doom applied, though in mysterious terms,
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  Speaker 1: judged as then best, and on the serpent. Thus his
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  Speaker 1: curse let fall. Because thou hast done this, Thou art
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  Speaker 1: a cursed above all cattle, each beast of the field,
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  Speaker 1: upon thy belly groveling, Thou shalt go, and dust shalt
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  Speaker 1: eat all the days of thy life. Between thee and
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  Speaker 1: the woman, I will put enmity, and between thine and
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  Speaker 1: her seed, her seed shall bruise thy head, thou bruise
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  Speaker 1: his heel. So spake this oracle then verified, when Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: son of Mary second Eve, saw Satan fall like lightning
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  Speaker 1: down from heav'n prince of the air, then rising from
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  Speaker 1: his grave, spoil'd principalities and powers triumph'd in open show
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  Speaker 1: and with assension bright captivity, led captive through the air,
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  Speaker 1: the realm itself of Satan long usurp'd, whom he shall
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  Speaker 1: tread at last under our feet, even he who now
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  Speaker 1: foretold his fatal bruise. And to the woman, thus his
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  Speaker 1: sentence turn'd thy sorrow, I will greatly multiply by thy
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  Speaker 1: conception children, Thou shalt bring in sorrow forth, and to
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  Speaker 1: thy husband's will thine shall submit He over thee shall
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  Speaker 1: rule on Adam last. Thus judgment he pronounced, because else
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  Speaker 1: thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife and
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  Speaker 1: eaten of the tree concerning which I charge thee, saying
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  Speaker 1: thou shalt not eat thereof cursed is the ground for
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  Speaker 1: thy sake. Thou in sorrow shalt eat thereof all the
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  Speaker 1: days of thy life. Thorns also and thistles, that shall
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  Speaker 1: bring thee forth unbid, And thou shalt eat the herb
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  Speaker 1: of the field in the sweat of thy face. Shalt
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  Speaker 1: thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground, For
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  Speaker 1: thou out of the ground wast taken, know thy birth,
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  Speaker 1: for dost thou art, and shalt to dust return So
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  Speaker 1: judged he man both judge and savior sent and instant
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  Speaker 1: stroke of death denounced that day removed far off, then,
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  Speaker 1: pitying how they stood before him, naked to the air,
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  Speaker 1: that now must suffer change, disdain not to begin, thenceforth
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  Speaker 1: the form of servant to assume, as when he washed
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  Speaker 1: his servant's feet. So now as far of his family
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  Speaker 1: he clad their nakedness with skins of beasts or slain,
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  Speaker 1: or as the snake with youthful coat repaid, and thought
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  Speaker 1: not much to clothe his enemies, Nor he there outward
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  Speaker 1: only with the skins of beasts, but inward nakedness much
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  Speaker 1: more opprobrious, with his robe of righteousness, arraying covered from
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  Speaker 1: his father's sight to him with swift assent, he up
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  Speaker 1: returned into his blissful bosom, reassumed in glory as of old,
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  Speaker 1: to him appeased, all though all knowing what had passed
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  Speaker 1: with man, recounted, mixing intercession sweet. Meanwhile, ere thus was
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  Speaker 1: sinned and judged on earth within the gates of hell
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  Speaker 1: sat sin and death in counterview, within the gates that
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  Speaker 1: now stood open wide, belching outrageous flame far into chaos,
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  Speaker 1: since the fiend passed through sin opening, who thus now
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  Speaker 1: to death began o sun. Why sit we hear each
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  Speaker 1: other viewing idly, while Satan, our great author, thrives in
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  Speaker 1: other worlds, and happier seat provides for us his offspring deer.
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  Speaker 1: It cannot be but that success attends him. If mishap
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  Speaker 1: ere this, he had returned with fury, driven by his advengure,
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  Speaker 1: since no place like this can fit his punishment or
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  Speaker 1: their revenge. Methinks I feel new strength within me, rise,
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  Speaker 1: wings growing, and dominion given me large. Beyond this deep
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  Speaker 1: whatever draws me on, or sympathy, or some cannatural force
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  Speaker 1: powerful at greatest distance, to unite with secret amity things
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  Speaker 1: of like kind by secretist conveyance. Thou, my shade, inseparable,
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  Speaker 1: must with me along for death from sin. No power
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  Speaker 1: can separate, but less the difficulty of passing back stay
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  Speaker 1: his return perhaps over this gulf, impassable, impervious. Let us
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  Speaker 1: try adventurous work. Yet to thee my power and mine
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  Speaker 1: not unagreeable to found a path over this main from
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  Speaker 1: hell to that new world where Satan now prevails. A
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  Speaker 1: monument of merit high to all the infernal host, easing
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  Speaker 1: their passage, hence for intercourse or transmigration as their lot
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  Speaker 1: shall lead, nor can I miss the way so strongly
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  Speaker 1: drawn by this new felt attraction and instinct, whom thus
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  Speaker 1: the meager shadow answered, soon go with a fate and
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  Speaker 1: inclination strong leads THEE. I shall not lag behind nor
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  Speaker 1: earth away Thou leading such as scent I draw of carnage,
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  Speaker 1: pray innumerable, and taste the savor of death from all
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  Speaker 1: things there that live. Nor shall I to the work
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  Speaker 1: Thou enterprisest be wanting, but afford thee equal aid. So
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  Speaker 1: saying with delight, he snuffed the smell of mortal change
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  Speaker 1: on earth, as when a flock of ravenous fowl, though
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  Speaker 1: many a league remote against the day of battle, to
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  Speaker 1: a field where armies lying camped, come flying, lured with
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  Speaker 1: scent of living carcasses designed for death. The following day
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  Speaker 1: in bloody fight, so scented the grim feature and upturned
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  Speaker 1: his nostril wide into the murky air, sagacious of his
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  Speaker 1: quarry from so far. Then, both from out hell gates
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  Speaker 1: into the waste wide anarchy of chaos, damp and dark
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  Speaker 1: flew divers, and with power. Their power was great. Hovering
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  Speaker 1: upon the waters, what they met solid or slimy, as
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  Speaker 1: in a raging sea, tossed up and down. Together crowded
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  Speaker 1: drove from each side, shoaling towards the mouth of Hell
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  Speaker 1: as when to polar winds blowing adverse upon the Cronian Sea.
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  Speaker 1: Together drive mountains of ice that stopped the imagined way
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  Speaker 1: beyond Petsaura, eastward to the rich Cathayan coast. The aggregated
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  Speaker 1: soil Death with his mace patrific, cold and dry as
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  Speaker 1: with a trident smote, and fixed as firm as de loss,
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  Speaker 1: floating once the rest his look bound with Gorgonian rigor
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  Speaker 1: not to move, and with asphaltic slime, broad as the
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  Speaker 1: gate deep to the roots of Hell. The gathered beach
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  Speaker 1: they fastened, and the mole immense wrought on over the
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  Speaker 1: foaming deep high arched a bridge of length prodigious, joining
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  Speaker 1: to the wall immovable of this now fence this world
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  Speaker 1: forfeit to death. From hence a passage broad, smooth, easy, inoffensive,
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  Speaker 1: down to Hell. So if great things to small may
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  Speaker 1: be compared, Xerxes, the liberty of Greece to yoke from
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  Speaker 1: Susa his Memnonian palace high, came to the sea and
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  Speaker 1: over hellispont, bridging his way Europe with Asia joined and
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  Speaker 1: scourged with many a stroke indignant waves. Now had they
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  Speaker 1: brought the work by wondrous art pontifical a ridge of
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  Speaker 1: pendent rock over the vexed abyss, following the track of
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  Speaker 1: Satan to the self same place where he first lighted
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  Speaker 1: from his wing and landed safe from out of chaos,
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  Speaker 1: to the outside bear of this round world. With pins
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  Speaker 1: of adamant and chains they made all fast, too fast
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  Speaker 1: they made and durable, And now in little space the
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  Speaker 1: confines mat of imperian heaven and of this world, and
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  Speaker 1: on the left hand Hell, with long reach interposed three
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  Speaker 1: several ways in sight to each of these three places
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  Speaker 1: led and now their way to Earth. They had descried
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  Speaker 1: to Paradise, first tending when behold Satan, in likeness of
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  Speaker 1: an angel, bright betwixt the centaur and the scorpions, steering
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  Speaker 1: his zenith, while the sun in aries rose. Disguised he came,
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  Speaker 1: but those his children deer, their parents soon discerned. Though
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  Speaker 1: in disguise he, after Eve seduced, unminded, slunk into the wood,
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  Speaker 1: fast by, and changing shape to observe the sequel, saw
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  Speaker 1: his guileful act by Eve, though all unweeting seconded upon
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  Speaker 1: her husband saw their shame that sought vain covertures. But
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  Speaker 1: when he saw descend the son of God to judge them, terrified,
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  Speaker 1: he fled, not hoping to escape, but shunned the present,
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  Speaker 1: fearing guilty what his wrath might suddenly inflict that past.
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  Speaker 1: Returned by night and listening where the hapless pair sat
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  Speaker 1: in their sad discourse and various plaint. Thence gathered his
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  Speaker 1: own doom, which understood not instant but of future time.
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  Speaker 1: With joy and tidings fraught to hell, he now returned,
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  Speaker 1: and at the brink of chaos, near the foot of
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  Speaker 1: this new wondrous pontifice, unhoped met who to meet him
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  Speaker 1: came his offspring Deer. Great joy was at their meeting,
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  Speaker 1: and at sight of that stupendous bridge, his joy increased.
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  Speaker 1: Long he and Birring stood till sin his fair enchanting daughter.
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  Speaker 1: Thus the silence broke, O parent, These are thy magnific deeds,
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  Speaker 1: thy trophies, which thou view'st as not thine own. Thou
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  Speaker 1: art their author and prime architect. For I no sooner
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  Speaker 1: in my heart divined my heart, which by a secret
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  Speaker 1: harmony still moves with thine joined in connection suite that
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  Speaker 1: Thou on Earth hadst prospered, which thy looks now also
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  Speaker 1: evidence but straight I felt, though distant from THEE worlds between,
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  Speaker 1: yet felt that I must after THEE with this thy son.
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  Speaker 1: Such fatal consequence unites us three. Hell could no longer
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  Speaker 1: hold us in her bounds, nor this unvoyageable gulf obscure
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  Speaker 1: detained from following thy illustrious track. Thou hast achieved our
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  Speaker 1: liberty confined within hell gates till now thou ut empowered
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  Speaker 1: to fortify thus far and overlay with this portentous bridge
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  Speaker 1: the dark abyss Thy now is all this world. Thy
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  Speaker 1: virtue hath won what thy hands builded, not thy wisdom
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  Speaker 1: gain'd with odds what war hath lost, and fully aveng'd
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  Speaker 1: our foil in heaven. Here Thou shalt monarch reign there,
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  Speaker 1: didst not there let him still victor sway as battle,
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  Speaker 1: hath adjudg'd from this new world, retiring by his own doom, alienated,
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  Speaker 1: and henceforth monarchy with THEE divide of all things parted
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  Speaker 1: by them perial bounds his quadrature from thy orbicular world,
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  Speaker 1: or try thee ow more dangerous to his throne, whom
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  Speaker 1: thus the Prince of Darkness answered glad fair daughter, and
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  Speaker 1: thou son and grandchild, both high proof ye now have
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  Speaker 1: given to be the race of Satan, for I glory
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  Speaker 1: in the name antagonist of Heaven's al mighty king. Amply
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  Speaker 1: have merited of me of all the infernal empire that
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  Speaker 1: so near Heaven's door, triumphal with triumphal act of met
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  Speaker 1: mine with this glorious work, and made one realm hell,
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  Speaker 1: and this world one realm, one continent of easy thoroughfare. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: while I descend through darkness on your road with ease
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  Speaker 1: to my associate, powers them to acquaint with these successes,
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  Speaker 1: and with them, rejoice you too. This way among those
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  Speaker 1: numerous orbs, all yours right down to Paradise. Descend there
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  Speaker 1: dwell and reigning bliss. Thence on the earth dominion, exercise,
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  Speaker 1: and in the air, chiefly on man sole Lord have
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  Speaker 1: all declared him. First, make sure your thrall, and lastly
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  Speaker 1: kill my substitutes I send you, and create plenty potent
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  Speaker 1: on earth of matchless might, issuing from me on your
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  Speaker 1: joint vigor. Now my hold of this new kingdom all
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  Speaker 1: depends through sin to death exposed by my exploit. If
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  Speaker 1: your joint power prevail the fairs of Hell, no detriment
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  Speaker 1: need fear go and be strong. So, saying he dismiss'd them,
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  Speaker 1: they with speed their course through thickest constellations, held, spreading
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  Speaker 1: their bane. The blastest stars looked wan and planet's planet
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  Speaker 1: struck real eclipsed, then suffer'd the other way. Satan went
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  Speaker 1: down the causeway to hell gate on either side disparted,
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  Speaker 1: Chaos overbuilt, exclaimed, and with rebounding surge, the bars assailed
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  Speaker 1: that scorned his indignation. Through the gate wide open and unguarded,
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  Speaker 1: Satan passed and with all about found desolate for those
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  Speaker 1: appointed to sit there had left their charge flown to
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  Speaker 1: the upper world. The rest were all far to the inland,
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  Speaker 1: retired about the walls of Pandemonium City and proud seat
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  Speaker 1: of Lucifer. So by illusion called of that bright star
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  Speaker 1: to Satan. Paragond there kept their watch the legions, while
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  Speaker 1: the grand in Council sat solicitous what chance might intercept
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  Speaker 1: their emperor sent So he departing, gave command, and they
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  Speaker 1: observed as when the Tartar from his Russian foe by
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  Speaker 1: Astra Khan over the snowy plains retires or Bactrin Sophie
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  Speaker 1: from the horns of Turkish crescent, leaves all waste beyond
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  Speaker 1: the realm of Aladl in his retreat to Taris or Casben.
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  Speaker 1: So these the late heaven banished host left desert utmost hell,
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  Speaker 1: many a dark league, reduced in careful watch round their metropolis,
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  Speaker 1: and now expecting each hour their great adventurer from the
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  Speaker 1: search of foreign worlds. He through the midst unmarked in
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  Speaker 1: show Plebeian angel, militant of lowest order, passed, and from
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  Speaker 1: the door of that Plutonian hall invisible ascended his high throne, which,
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  Speaker 1: under state of richest texture spread at upper end, was
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  Speaker 1: laced in regal luster down a while he sat and
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  Speaker 1: round about him sore, unseen at last, as from a cloud,
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  Speaker 1: his fulgent head and shape star bright appeared, or brighter,
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  Speaker 1: clad with what permissive glory since his fall was left
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  Speaker 1: him or false glitter. All amazed at that so sudden
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  Speaker 1: blaze a stygian throng bent their aspect, and whom they
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  Speaker 1: wished beheld them mighty Chief returned loud, was the claim.
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  Speaker 1: Forth rushed in haste the great consulting peers raised from
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  Speaker 1: their dark divan, and with like joy congratulant approached him who,
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  Speaker 1: with hand silence and with these words attention one thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers,
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  Speaker 1: for in possession such not only of right, I call
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  Speaker 1: ye and declare ye now returned, successful beyond hope, to
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  Speaker 1: lead ye forth triumphant, out of this infernal pit, abominable, cursed,
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  Speaker 1: the house of woe and dungeon of our tyrant, now
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  Speaker 1: possess as lords a spacious world to our native heaven,
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  Speaker 1: little inferior by my adventure, hard with peril, greate achieved.
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  Speaker 1: Long were to tell what I have done, what suffered, with,
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  Speaker 1: what pain, voyaged, unreal, vast, unbounded, deep of horrible confusion,
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  Speaker 1: over which by sin and death a broad way now
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  Speaker 1: is paved to expedite your glorious march. But I toiled
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  Speaker 1: out my uncouth passage, forced to ride the untractable abyss,
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  Speaker 1: plunged in the womb of unoriginal knight and chaos wild, that,
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  Speaker 1: jealous of their secrets, fiercely opposed my journey strange with
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  Speaker 1: clamorous uproar, protesting Fate supreme. Thence how I found the
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  Speaker 1: new created world, which fame in heaven long had foretold
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  Speaker 1: a fabric wonderful of absolute perfection therein man placed in
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  Speaker 1: a paradise by our exile, made happy him by fraud
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  Speaker 1: I have seduced from his creator, And the more to
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  Speaker 1: increase your wonder with an apple he thereat offended worth
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  Speaker 1: your laughter. Hath given up both his beloved man and
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  Speaker 1: all his world to sin and death, a prey, and
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  Speaker 1: so to us, without our hazard, labor or alarm, to
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  Speaker 1: range in and to dwell, an over man to rule
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  Speaker 1: as over all he should have ruled. True is me
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  Speaker 1: also he hath judged, or rather me not, but the
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  Speaker 1: brute serpent, in whose shape man I have deceived, that
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  Speaker 1: which to me belongs his enmity, which he will put
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  Speaker 1: between me and mankind. I am to bruise his heel,
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  Speaker 1: his seed, when is not set, shall bruise my head
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  Speaker 1: a world who would not purchase with a bruise or
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  Speaker 1: much more grievous pain. Ye have the count of my performance.
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  Speaker 1: What remains, ye gods, but up an enter now into
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  Speaker 1: full bliss. So having said a while, he stood expecting
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  Speaker 1: their universe or shout and high applause to fill his ear.
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  Speaker 1: When contrary he hears on all sides, from innumerable tongues,
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  Speaker 1: a dismal, universal hiss, the sound of public scorn. He wondered,
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  Speaker 1: but not long had leisure, wondering at himself. Now more,
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  Speaker 1: his visage drawn, he felt to sharpened spare. His arms
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  Speaker 1: clung to his ribs, his legs entwining each other, till
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  Speaker 1: supplanted down he fell a monstrous serpent on his belly, Prone, reluctant,
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  Speaker 1: but in vain. A greater power now ruled him, punished
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  Speaker 1: in the shapey sind According to his doom, he would
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  Speaker 1: have spoke, but hiss, for hiss, returned with forked tongue
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: to forked tongue, For now were all transformed alike to serpents,
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: all as accessories to his bold riot. Dreadful was the
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: din of hissing through the hall. Thick swarming now with
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: complicated monsters, head and tail, scorpion and aspis, beIN adre kerastes,
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  Speaker 1: horned hydrus, and ilop's drear and dipsus. Not so thick
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  Speaker 1: swarmed once the soil bedropped with blood of Gorgon or
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  Speaker 1: the isle off Usa, But still greatest teeth the midst,
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  Speaker 1: now dragon grown larger than whom the sun engendered in
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  Speaker 1: the Pythian veil on slime, huge python, and his power
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  Speaker 1: no less, he seemed above the rest still to retain.
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  Speaker 1: They all him followed, issuing forth to the open field,
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  Speaker 1: where all yet left of that revolted route heaven fallen
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  Speaker 1: in station, stood or just array, sublime with expectation. When
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  Speaker 1: to see in triumph, issuing forth their glorious chief, they
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  Speaker 1: saw but other sight instead, a crowd of ugly serpents.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Horror on them fell, and horrid sympathy for what they
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: saw they felt themselves now changing down their arms down,
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  Speaker 1: fell both spear and sheer down they as fast, and
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  Speaker 1: the dire hiss renewed, and the dire form caught by contagion,
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  Speaker 1: like in punishment, as in their crime. Thus was the
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  Speaker 1: plause they meant, turned to exploding hiss, triumph to shame
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  Speaker 1: cast on themselves from their own mouths. There stood a
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  Speaker 1: grove hard by sprung up with this their change his will,
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  Speaker 1: who reigns above to aggravate their penance, laden with fair
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  Speaker 1: fruit like that which grew in paradise, the bait of
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: eve used by the tempter on that prospect strange their
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: earnest eyes they fixed, imagining for one forbidden tree, and
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  Speaker 1: multitude now risen to work them further woe or shame,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: Yet parched with scolding, thirst and hunger fierce though to
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: delude them, scent could not abstain. But on they rolled
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: in heaps and up the trees, climbing sat thicker than
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  Speaker 1: the snaky locks that curled Megeira. Greedily they plucked the
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  Speaker 1: fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew near that
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: bituminous lake where sodom flamed. This more delusive, not the touch,
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  Speaker 1: but taste. Deceived, they fondly, thinking to allay their appetite
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  Speaker 1: with gust. Instead of fruit, chewed bitter ashes, which the
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  Speaker 1: fended taste with spattering noise rejected Off they essayed hunger
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: and thirst, constraining, drugged as oft with hatefullest disrelish, writhed
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: their jaws with soot and cinders filled so off they
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: fell into the same illusion, not as man, whom they
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: triumphed once lapsed. Thus were they plagued and worn with famine,
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: long and ceaseless hiss, till their lost shape permitted they
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  Speaker 1: resumed yearly, enjoyed. Some say to undergo this annual humbling
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: certain numbered days to dash their pride and joy for
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: man seduced. However, some tradition they dis first among the
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  Speaker 1: heathen of their purchase got and fabled how the serpent
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  Speaker 1: whom they called Ophion, with the uryinumy, the wide encroaching eve,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps had first the rule of High Olympus, thence by
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  Speaker 1: satin driven and ops ere. Yet dictyan Jove was born.
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  Speaker 1: End of part one of book nine