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07 - Paradise Lost - John Milton · Philosophy and Faith

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Speaker 1: Book nine, Part one, the argument Man's transgression known. The
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Speaker 1: Guardian Angels for Sat paradise and return up to Heaven
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Speaker 1: to approve their vigilance, and are approved. God, declaring that
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Speaker 1: the entrance of Satan could not be by them prevented,
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Speaker 1: he sends his son to judge the transgressors, who descends
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Speaker 1: and give sentence accordingly. Then, in pity, clothes them both
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Speaker 1: and reascends sin and death, sitting till then at the
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Speaker 1: gates of Hell by wondrous sympathy, feeling the success of
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Speaker 1: Satan in this new world and the sin by man
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Speaker 1: there committed, resolved to sit no longer confined in Hell,
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Speaker 1: but to follow Satan, their sire, up to the place
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Speaker 1: of Man. To make the way easier from Hell to
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Speaker 1: this world, to and fro, they pave a broad highway
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Speaker 1: or bridge over chaos, according to the trap that Satan
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Speaker 1: first made. Then, preparing for Earth, they meet him, proud
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Speaker 1: of his success, returning to Hell their mutual gratulation. Satan
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Speaker 1: arrives at Pandemonium in full assembly, relates with boasting his
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Speaker 1: success against man. Instead of applause, is entertained with a
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Speaker 1: general hiss by all his audience transformed with himself also
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Speaker 1: suddenly into serpents, according to his doom given in paradise.
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Speaker 1: Then deluded with a shower of the forbidden tree springing
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Speaker 1: up before them, they greedily reaching to take of the fruit,
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Speaker 1: chee dust and bitter ashes. Meanwhile, the heinous and despiteful
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Speaker 1: act of Satan done in Paradise, and how he and
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Speaker 1: the serpent had perverted Eve her husband she to taste
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Speaker 1: the fatal fruit was known in heaven. For what can
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Speaker 1: scape the eye of God all seeing, or deceive his
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Speaker 1: heart omniscient, who, in all things wise and just hindered
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Speaker 1: not Satan to attempt the mind of man with strength,
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Speaker 1: in tire and free, well armed, complete to have discovered
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Speaker 1: and repulsed whatever whiles of foe or seeming friend. For
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Speaker 1: still they knew, and ought to have still remembered the
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Speaker 1: high injunction not to taste that fruit. Whoever tempted, which they,
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Speaker 1: not obeying incurred. What could they less the penalty and
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Speaker 1: manifolding sin deserved to fall up into Heaven from paradise
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Speaker 1: in haste a angelic guards ascended, mute and sad for man,
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Speaker 1: for of his state. By this they knew, much, wondering
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Speaker 1: how the subtle fiend had stolen entrance unseen. Soon as
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Speaker 1: the unwelcome news from Earth arrived at heaven gate, Displeased
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Speaker 1: all were who heard. Dim sadness did not spare that time.
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Speaker 1: Celestial visages, yet mixed with pity, violated not their bliss
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Speaker 1: about the new arrived in multitudes. The ethereal people ran
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Speaker 1: to hear and know how all thefell They towards the
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Speaker 1: throne Supreme Accountable made haste to make appear with righteous
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Speaker 1: plea their utmost vigilance, and easily approved when the most
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Speaker 1: High Eternal Father, from his secret cloud, amidst in thunder uttered,
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Speaker 1: Thus his voice assembled angels and ye powers returned from
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Speaker 1: unsuccessful charge. Be not dismayed nor troubled at these tidings
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Speaker 1: from Earth, which your sincerest care could not prevent. Foretold
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Speaker 1: so lately, what would come to pass when first this
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Speaker 1: tempter crossed the gulf from Hell? I told you, then
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Speaker 1: he should prevail and speed on his bad errand man
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Speaker 1: should be seduced and flattered out of all believing lies
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Speaker 1: against his maker. No decree of mind concurring to necessitate
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Speaker 1: his fall or touch with the lightest moment of impulse
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Speaker 1: his free will to her own inclining left in even scale.
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Speaker 1: But fallen he is. And now what rests but that
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Speaker 1: the mortal sentence pass on his transgression death denounced that day,
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Speaker 1: which he presumes already vain and void, because not yet
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Speaker 1: inflicted as he feared, by some immediate stroke, but soon
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Speaker 1: shall find forbearance no acquittance. Ere day end. Justice shall
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Speaker 1: not return as bounty scorned. But whom send I to
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Speaker 1: judge them? Whom but thee vice regent son to THEE.
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Speaker 1: I have transferred all judgment, whether in heaven or earth
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Speaker 1: or hell. Easy it may be seen that I intend mercy,
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Speaker 1: colleague with justice, sending THEE man's friend, his mediator, his
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Speaker 1: design both ransom and redeemer, voluntary and destined man himself
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Speaker 1: to judge man fallen. So spake the Father, and unfolding
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Speaker 1: bright towards the right hand, his glory on the sun
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Speaker 1: blazed forth unclouded deity, he full resplendent all his father
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Speaker 1: manifest expressed, and thus divinely answered Myles, Father, eternal Thine
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Speaker 1: is to decree mine, both in heaven and earth, to
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Speaker 1: do thy will supreme, that thou in me, thy son belov'd,
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Speaker 1: mayst ever rest well pleas'd I go to judge on
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Speaker 1: earth these thy transgressors. But thou knowest whoever judg'd the
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Speaker 1: worst on me most light, when time shall be for
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Speaker 1: so I undertook before THEE, and not repenting this obtain
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Speaker 1: of right, that I may mitigate their doom on me deriv'd.
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Speaker 1: Yet I shall temper so justice with mercy as may
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Speaker 1: illustrate most them fully satisfied, and THEE appease attendants. None
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Speaker 1: shall need nor train where none are to behold the judgment,
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Speaker 1: but the judg'd those two. The third best absent is condemn'd,
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Speaker 1: convict by flight, and revel 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 g golds glory him, thrones
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Speaker 1: and powers, princedoms and dominations. Ministrant accompanied to heaven Gate.
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Speaker 1: From whence Eden and all the coast in prospect lay down,
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Speaker 1: he descended straight. The speed of God's time counts not,
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Speaker 1: though with the swiftest minutes winged. Now was the sun
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Speaker 1: in western Cadence low from noon, and gentle airs due
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Speaker 1: at their hour to fan the earth now waked and
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Speaker 1: usher in the evening cool. When he from wrath more
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Speaker 1: cool came the mild judge, and intercess he both to
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Speaker 1: sentence man the voice of God they heard, now, walking
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Speaker 1: in the garden by soft winds brought to their ears
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Speaker 1: while day declined, they heard, and from his presence hid
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Speaker 1: themselves among the thickest trees, both man and wife, till
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Speaker 1: God approaching Thus to Adam, called aloud, where art thou, Adam,
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Speaker 1: wont with joy to meet my coming scene? Far off?
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Speaker 1: I miss thee here not pleased, Thus entertain'd with solitude
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Speaker 1: where obvious duty erewhile appear'd unsought, or come I less conspicuous?
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Speaker 1: Or 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 discompos'd. 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 answer'd 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, replied,
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Speaker 1: my voice, Thou oftest heard, and hast not fear'd, but
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Speaker 1: still rejoic'd. How is it now become so dreadful to
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Speaker 1: THEE that thou art naked, who hath told thee? Hast
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Speaker 1: 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 gavest 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
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Speaker 1: her thou didst resign thy manhood? And the place wherein
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Speaker 1: God 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 seem'd 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 thigh 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 than 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 altered 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 and fall light
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Speaker 1: lightning down from heaven. Prince of the Air, then rising
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Speaker 1: from his grave, spoiled principalities and powers, triumphed in open show,
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Speaker 1: and with ascension bright captivity led captive through the air,
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Speaker 1: the realm itself of Satan long usurped, 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 turned, 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 thou
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Speaker 1: hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and eaten
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Speaker 1: of the tree concerning which I charge thee, saying thou
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Speaker 1: shalt not eat thereof cursed is the ground for thy sake. Thou,
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Speaker 1: in sorrow shalt eat thereof all the days of thy life,
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Speaker 1: thorns also thistles, that shall bring thee forth unbid, And
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Speaker 1: thou shalt eat the herb of the field. In the
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Speaker 1: sweat of thy face. Shalt thou eat bread till thou
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Speaker 1: return unto the ground, For thou out of the ground
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Speaker 1: wast taken, know thy birth, for dost thou art, and
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Speaker 1: shalt to dust return. So judged he man, both judge
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Speaker 1: and savior, sent and instant stroke of death denounced that
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Speaker 1: day removed far off, then, pitying how they stood before him,
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Speaker 1: naked to the air, that now must suffer change, disdain
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Speaker 1: not to begin thenceforth the form of servant to assume,
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Speaker 1: as when he wash'd his servant's feet. So now, as
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Speaker 1: father of his family, he clad their nakedness with skins
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Speaker 1: of beasts or slain, or as the snake with youthful
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Speaker 1: coat repaid, and thought not much to clothe his enemies,
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Speaker 1: Nor he there outward only with the skins of beasts,
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Speaker 1: but inward nakedness much more approbrious, with his robe of
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Speaker 1: righteousness arraying covered from his father's sight to him with
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Speaker 1: swift assent, he up returned into his blissful bosom, reassumed
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Speaker 1: in glory as of old to him appeased, all though
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Speaker 1: all knowing what had passed with man recounted, mixing intercession sweet. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: ere Thus was sinned and judged on earth within the
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Speaker 1: gates of hell, sat sin and death in counterview, within
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Speaker 1: the gates that now stood open wide, belching outrageous flame,
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Speaker 1: far into chaos, since the fiend passed through sin opening,
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Speaker 1: who thus now to death began O son? Why sit
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Speaker 1: we hear each other viewing idly, while Satan, our great author,
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Speaker 1: thrives in other worlds, and happier seat provides for us
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Speaker 1: His offspring deer it cannot be, but that success attends him.
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Speaker 1: If mishap ere this, he had returned with fury, driven
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Speaker 1: by avengure. Since no place like this can fit his
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Speaker 1: punishment or 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 lest 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 thy power and mind not
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Speaker 1: unagreeable to found a path over this main from hell
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Speaker 1: to that new world where Satan now prevails a monument
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Speaker 1: of merit high to all the infernal host, easing their passage,
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Speaker 1: hence for intercourse or transmigration, as their lot shall lead.
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Speaker 1: Nor can I miss the way so strongly drawn by
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Speaker 1: this new felt attraction and instinct, whom thus the meager
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Speaker 1: shadow answered, soon go with a fate and inclination strong
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Speaker 1: leads thee. I shall not lag behind, nor e'er the
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Speaker 1: way 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 lye encamped, 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 Susa,
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Speaker 1: his Memnonian palet high, came to the sea and over
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Speaker 1: hellispont bridging his way Europe with Asia joined and scourged
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Speaker 1: with many a stroke th 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 vext 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 met of imperi in heaven and of this world.
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Speaker 1: And on the left hand Hell, with long reach interposed
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Speaker 1: three several ways in sight to each of these three
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Speaker 1: places led and now their way to Earth. They had
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Speaker 1: descried to Paradise, first tending when behold Satan, in likeness
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Speaker 1: of an angel, bright betwixt the centaur and the scorpions,
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Speaker 1: steering his zenith, while the sun in aries rose. Disguised
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Speaker 1: he came, but those his children deer. Their parents soon discerned.
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Speaker 1: Though in disguise he after Eve seduced unminded, slunk into
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Speaker 1: the wood, fast by and changing shape to observe the sequel,
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Speaker 1: saw his guileful act by Eve, though all unweting seconded
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Speaker 1: upon her husband saw their shame that sought vain covertures.
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Speaker 1: But when he saw descend the son of God to
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Speaker 1: judge them, terrified, he fled, not hoping to escape, but
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Speaker 1: shunned the present, fearing guilty what his wrath might suddenly
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Speaker 1: inflict that past. Returned by night and listening where the
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Speaker 1: hapless pair sat in their sad discourse and various plaint
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Speaker 1: thence gathered his own doom, which understood not instant but
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Speaker 1: of future time. With joy and tidings fraught to hell.
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Speaker 1: He now returned, and at the brink of chaos, near
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Speaker 1: the foot of this new wondrous pontifice, unhoped met who
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Speaker 1: to meet him came his offspring Deer. Great joy was
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Speaker 1: at their meeting, and at sight of that stupendous bridge,
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Speaker 1: his joy increased. Long he and biring stood till Sin
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Speaker 1: his fair enchanting daughter. Thus the silence broke, O parent,
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Speaker 1: These are thy magnific deeds, thy trophies, which thou view'st
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Speaker 1: as not thine own. Thou art their author and prime architect.
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Speaker 1: For I no sooner in my heart divined my heart,
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Speaker 1: which by a secret harmony still moves with Thine, joined
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Speaker 1: in connection suite that Thou on Earth hadst prospered, which
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Speaker 1: thy looks now also evidence but straight I felt, though
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Speaker 1: distant from thee worlds between, yet felt that I must
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Speaker 1: after THEE with this thy son, such fatal consequence unites
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Speaker 1: us three. Hell could no longer hold us in her bounds,
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Speaker 1: nor this unvoyageable gulf obscure detained from following thy illustrious track.
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Speaker 1: Thou hast achieved our liberty confined within hell gates, till
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Speaker 1: now thou ust empowered to fortify thus far and overlay
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Speaker 1: with this portentous bridge the dark abyss Thye now is
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Speaker 1: all this world. Thy virtue hath won what thy hands builded,
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Speaker 1: not thy wisdom gained with odds what war hath lost,
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Speaker 1: and fully avenged our foil in heavin. Here thou shalt
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Speaker 1: monarch reign there didst not there let him still victor
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Speaker 1: sway as battle. Hath adjudged from this new world, retiring
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Speaker 1: by his own doom, alienated, and henceforth monarchy, with THEE
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Speaker 1: divide of all things parted by them perial bounds, his
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Speaker 1: quadrature from thy orbicular world. Or try THEE now more
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Speaker 1: dangerous to his throne, whom thus the Prince of Darkness answered,
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Speaker 1: glad fair daughter and thou son and grandchild, both high proof,
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Speaker 1: Ye now have given to be the race of Satan.
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Speaker 1: For I glory in the name antagonist of Heaven's al
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Speaker 1: mighty king. Amply have merited of me of all the
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Speaker 1: infernal empire that so near Heaven's door, triumphal with triumphal
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Speaker 1: act of met mine with this glorious work, and made
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Speaker 1: one realm Hell, and this world one realm, one continent
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Speaker 1: of easy thoroughfare. Therefore, while I descend through darkness on
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Speaker 1: your road with ease to my associate, powers them to
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Speaker 1: acquaint with these successes, and with them rejoice you too.
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Speaker 1: This way among those numerous orbs, all yours right down
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Speaker 1: to Paradise, descend there, dwell and reigning bliss. Thence on
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Speaker 1: the earth dominion exercise, and in the air, chiefly on
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Speaker 1: man sole Lord, have all declared him. First, make sure
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Speaker 1: your thrall, and lastly kill my substitutes I send you,
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Speaker 1: and create plenty potent on earth of matchless might, issuing
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Speaker 1: from me on your joint vigor. Now my hold of
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Speaker 1: this new kingdom all depends through sin to death exposed
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Speaker 1: by my exploit. If your joint power prevail the fares
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Speaker 1: of hell, no detriment need fear, go and be strong. So,
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Speaker 1: saying he dismissed them, they with speed their course through
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Speaker 1: thickest constellations, held spreading their bane. The blastest star looked
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Speaker 1: wan and planet's planets struck real eclipsed, then suffered. The
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Speaker 1: other way, Satan went down the causeway to hell Gate.
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Speaker 1: On either side disparted, chaos overbuilt, exclaimed, and with rebounding surge,
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Speaker 1: the bars assailed that scorned his indignation. Through the gate,
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Speaker 1: wide open and unguarded, Satan passed and with all about
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Speaker 1: found desolate, for those appointed to sit there had left
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Speaker 1: their charge flown to the upper world. The rest were
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Speaker 1: Pandemonium City and proud seat of Lucifer. So by illusion
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Speaker 1: called of that bright star to Satan. Paragond there kept
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Speaker 1: their watch the legions, while the Grand in Council sat solicitous.
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Speaker 1: What chance might intercept their emperor sent so he departing,
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Speaker 1: gave command, and they observed as when the Tartar from
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Speaker 1: his Russian foe by Astra, Khan of the Snowy Plains retires,
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Speaker 1: or Bactrin Sophie from the horns of Turkish crescent leaves
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Speaker 1: all waste beyond the realm of Aladl In his retreat
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Speaker 1: to Taris or cas been so these the late heaven
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Speaker 1: banished host left desert utmost hell, many a dark league,
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Speaker 1: reduced in careful watch round their metropolis, and now expecting
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Speaker 1: each hour their great adventurer from the search of foreign worlds.
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Speaker 1: He through the midst un marked in show Plebeian angel,
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Speaker 1: militant of lowest order passed, and from the door of
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Speaker 1: that Plutonian hall invisible ascended his high throne, which, under
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Speaker 1: state of richest texture spread at upper end, was placed
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Speaker 1: in regal luster. Down a while he sat and round
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Speaker 1: about him sore, unseen. At last, as from a cloud,
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Speaker 1: his fulgent head and shaped starbright appeared or brighter, clad
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Speaker 1: with what permissive glory since his fall was left him
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Speaker 1: or false glit all amazed at that so sudden blaze.
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Speaker 1: The Stygian throng bent their aspect, and whom they wished
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Speaker 1: beheld their mighty chief, returned. Loud was the claim. Forth
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Speaker 1: rushed in haste the great consulting peers raised from their
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Speaker 1: 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,
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Speaker 1: powers for in possession such not only of right, I
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Speaker 1: call ye and declare ye now returned, successful beyond hope,
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Speaker 1: to lead ye forth triumphant, out of this infernal pit, abominable, accursed,
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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 grate achieved.
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Speaker 1: Long were to tell what I have done, what suffered,
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Speaker 1: with what pain? Voyage unris 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 alae arm,
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Speaker 1: to range in and to dwell an over man, to
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Speaker 1: rule as over all he should have ruled. True is
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Speaker 1: me also he hath judged, or rather mean not but
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Speaker 1: the brute serpent, in whose shape man I have deceived,
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Speaker 1: that which to me belongs his enmity, which he will
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Speaker 1: put 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 and 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 universal 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 visit 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
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Speaker 1: to forked tongue, For now were all transformed alike to serpents,
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Speaker 1: all as accessories to his bold riot. Dreadful was the
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Speaker 1: din of hissing through the hall, thick swarming now with
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Speaker 1: complicated monsters, head and tail, scorpion and asp and amphis
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Speaker 1: beIN a dyre kerastes horn, hydrus and Ilop's drea and dipsus.
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Speaker 1: Not so thick swarmed once the soil be dropped with
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Speaker 1: blood of Gorgon or the isle off Usa. But still
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Speaker 1: greatest teeth the midst now dragon, grown larger than whom
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Speaker 1: the sun engendered in the Pythian veil on slime, huge python,
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Speaker 1: and his power no less, he seemed above the rest,
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Speaker 1: still to retain they all him followed, issuing forth to
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Speaker 1: the open field, where all yet left of that revolted
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Speaker 1: route heaven fallen in station, stood or just array, sublime
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Speaker 1: with expectation. When to see in triumph, issuing forth their
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Speaker 1: glorious chief, they saw but other sight instead, a crowd
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Speaker 1: of ugly serpents. Horror on them fell, and horrid sympathy
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Speaker 1: for what they saw they felt themselves now changing down
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Speaker 1: their arms down, fell both spear and shield down they
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Speaker 1: as fast, and the dire hiss renewed, and the dire
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Speaker 1: form caught by contagion, like in punishment, as in their crime.
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Speaker 1: Thus was the plause they meant, turned to exploding hiss,
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Speaker 1: triumph to shame cast on them cells from their own mouths.
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Speaker 1: There stood a grove hard by sprung up with this
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Speaker 1: their change his will, who reigns above to aggravate their penance,
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Speaker 1: laden with fair fruit like that which grew in paradise,
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Speaker 1: the bait of eve used by the tempter on that prospect.
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Speaker 1: Strange Their earnest eyes they fixed, imagining for one forbidden tree,
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Speaker 1: and multitude now risen to work them further woe or shame,
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Speaker 1: yet parched with scolding, thirst and hunger fierce though to
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Speaker 1: delude them, scent could not abstain. But on they rolled
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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
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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
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Speaker 1: and thirst, constraining, drugged as oft with hatefullest disrelish, writhed
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Speaker 1: their jaws with soot and cinders filled so off they
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Speaker 1: fell into the same illusion, not as man, whom they
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Speaker 1: triumphed once lapsed. Thus were they plagued and worn with famine,
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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
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Speaker 1: certain numbered days, to dash their pride and joy for
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Speaker 1: man seduced. However, some tradition they dispersed among the heathen
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Speaker 1: of their purchase, got and fabled how the serpent, whom
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Speaker 1: they called Offion. 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 dic Tee and Jove
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Speaker 1: was born. End of part one of book nine