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20 - Paradise Lost - John Milton · Philosophy and Faith

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Speaker 1: Book two, Part two. The Stygian Council thus dissolved, and
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Speaker 1: forth in order came the grand infernal peers. Midst came
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Speaker 1: their mighty paramount, and seemed alone the antagonist of Heaven,
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Speaker 1: nor less than Hell's red Emperor, with pomp, supreme and
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Speaker 1: godlike imitated state him round a globe of fiery seraphim,
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Speaker 1: enclosed with bright emblazonry and horrent arms. Then of their
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Speaker 1: session ended, they bid cry with trumpets regal sound the
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Speaker 1: great result toward the four winds, for speedy cherubim put
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Speaker 1: to their mouths. The sounding alchemy by Harold's voice, explained
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Speaker 1: the hollow abyss heard far and wide, and all the
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Speaker 1: host of Hell, with deafening shout, returned them loud acclaim.
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Speaker 1: Thence more at ease their minds, and somewhat raised by
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Speaker 1: false presumptuous hope, the ranged powers disband and wandering, each
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Speaker 1: his several way pursues as inclination or sad choice leads
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Speaker 1: him perplexed where he may likeliest find truce to his
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Speaker 1: restless thoughts, and entertain the irksome hours till his great
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Speaker 1: chief return, part upon the plain or in the air,
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Speaker 1: sublime upon the wing, or in swift race contend as
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Speaker 1: at the Olympian Games or Pythian Fields, part curb their
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Speaker 1: fiery steeds or shun the goal with rapid wheels, or
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Speaker 1: fronted brigades form as when to worn proud cities. War
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Speaker 1: appears waged in the troubled sky, and armies rush to
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Speaker 1: battle in the clouds before each van prick forth the
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Speaker 1: airy nights and couch their spears till thickest legions close
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Speaker 1: with feats of arms. From either end of heaven. The
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Speaker 1: welkin burns others with vast typhean rage. More fell rend
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Speaker 1: up both rocks and hills and ride the air in
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Speaker 1: whirlwind hell Scarce holds the wild uproar, as when Alcides
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Speaker 1: from Ohalia crowned with conquest, felt the venomed robe and
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Speaker 1: tore through pane up by the rooms Thlascian pines, and
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Speaker 1: Lichus from the top of ore Eta threw into the
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Speaker 1: Euboic sea. Others more mild retreated in a silent valley,
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Speaker 1: sing with notes angelical to many a harp their own
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Speaker 1: heroic deeds and hapless fall by doom of battle, and
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Speaker 1: complain that fate free virtue should enthrall to force or chance.
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Speaker 1: Their song was partial, but the harmony what could it less?
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Speaker 1: When spirits immortal sing suspended hell and took with ravishment
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Speaker 1: the thronging audience in discourse more sweet for eloquence, the
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Speaker 1: soul song charms the sense others apart, sat on a hill,
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Speaker 1: retired in thoughts, more elevate and reasoned, high of providence, foreknowledge,
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Speaker 1: will and fate fixed, fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, and
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Speaker 1: found no end in wandering mazes, lost of good and evil.
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Speaker 1: Much they argued then, of happiness and final misas, passion
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Speaker 1: and apathy, and glory and shame, vain wisdom, awe and
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Speaker 1: false philosophy. Yet with a pleasing sorcery could champagne for
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Speaker 1: a while, or anguish and excite fallacious hope, or arm
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Speaker 1: the dured breast with stubborn patience, as with triple steel.
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Speaker 1: Another part in squadrons and gross bands on bold adventure
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Speaker 1: to discover wide that dismal world, if any climb perhaps
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Speaker 1: might yield them easier habitation. Bend foe ways, their flying
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Speaker 1: march along the banks four infernal rivers that disgorge into
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Speaker 1: the burning lake. Their baleful streams are broad styx. The
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Speaker 1: flood of deadly hate, sad acheron of sorrow, black and
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Speaker 1: deep coccitis, named of lamentation, loud heard on a rueful stream,
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Speaker 1: fierce Fledgerton, whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.
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Speaker 1: Far off from these, a slow and sight silent stream Leith,
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Speaker 1: the river of oblivion, rules her watery labyrinth, whereof who
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Speaker 1: drinks forthwith his former state and being forgets, forgets both
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Speaker 1: joy and grief, pleasure and pain. Beyond this flood, a
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Speaker 1: frozen continent lies, dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms
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Speaker 1: of whirlwind and dire hail, which on firm land thaws
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Speaker 1: not but gathers heap and ruin seams of ancient pile.
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Speaker 1: All else deep snow and ice, a gulf profound as
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Speaker 1: that Sabonian bog betwixt Damiata and Mount Cassius Old, where
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Speaker 1: armies whole have sunk. The parching air burns fraw, and
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Speaker 1: cold performs the effect of fire thither by harpy footed
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Speaker 1: furies hailed at certain revolutions, all the damned abroad, and
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Speaker 1: feel by turns the bitter change of fierce extremes, extremes
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Speaker 1: by change more fierce from beds of raging fire, to
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Speaker 1: starve in ice, their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine, immovable,
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Speaker 1: infixed and frozen round periods of time. Thence hurried back
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Speaker 1: to fire, they ferry over Thiselethian sound, both to and
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Speaker 1: fro their sorrow, to augment and wish, and struggle as
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Speaker 1: they pass, to reach the tempting stream with one small
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Speaker 1: drop to loose in sweet forgetfulness, all pain and woe,
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Speaker 1: all in one moment, and so near the brink. But
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Speaker 1: fate withstands and to oppose the tempt Medusa, with Gorgonian terror,
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Speaker 1: guards the ford and of itself. The water flies all
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Speaker 1: taste of living white, as once it fled the lip
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Speaker 1: of Tantalus. Thus roving on in confused march. Forlorn, the
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Speaker 1: dventurous bands, with shuddering horror, pale and eyes aghast, viewed
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Speaker 1: first their lamentable lot and found no rest. Through many
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Speaker 1: a dark and dreary veil they passed, and many a
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Speaker 1: region dolorus, oh many a frozen many, a fiery alp, rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens,
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Speaker 1: and shades of death, a universe of death which God
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Speaker 1: by curse created evil for evil only good, where all
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Speaker 1: life dies, death lives, and nature breeds. Perverse, all monstrous,
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Speaker 1: all prodigious things, abominable, unutterable, and worse than fables yet
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Speaker 1: have feigned or fear conceived Gorgons and hydras and Shimera's dire. Meanwhile,
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Speaker 1: the adversary of God and Man, Satan, with thoughts inflamed
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Speaker 1: of highest design, puts on swift wings, and toward the
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Speaker 1: gates of Hell, explores his solitary flight. Sometimes he scours
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Speaker 1: the right hand coast, sometimes the left now shaves with
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Speaker 1: a level wing the deep then saws up to the
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Speaker 1: fiery concave, touring high, as when far off at sea,
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Speaker 1: a fleet descried hangs in a clown by equinoctial winds,
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Speaker 1: close sailing from Bengola, or the aisles of Ternate and
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Speaker 1: Tidor whence merchants bring their spicy drugs. They on the
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Speaker 1: trading flood through the wide Ethiopian to the cape, ply
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Speaker 1: stemming nightly toward the pole. So seamed far off, the
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Speaker 1: flying fiend at last appear Hell bounds high, reaching to
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Speaker 1: the horrid roof, and thrice threefold the gates. Three folds
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Speaker 1: were brass, three iron, three of adamantine rock, impenetrable, impaled
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Speaker 1: with circling fire, yet unconsumed. Before the gates, there sat
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Speaker 1: on either side a formidable shape, the one seemed woman
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Speaker 1: to the waist and fair, but ended foul in many
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Speaker 1: a scaly fold, voluminous and vast, a serpent armed with
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Speaker 1: mortal sting about her middle round a cry of hell
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Speaker 1: hounds never ceased, barking with wide serber and mouths full loud,
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Speaker 1: and wrung a hideous peal. Yet when they list would
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Speaker 1: creep if out disturbed their noise into her womb and kennel.
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Speaker 1: There yet there still barked and howled within, unseen, Far
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Speaker 1: less abhorred than these vexed skyla bathing in the sea
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Speaker 1: that parts Calabria from the horse Trinacrian shore, nor uglier
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Speaker 1: follow the night Hag when called in secret. Riding through
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Speaker 1: the air, she comes, lured with the smell of infant blood,
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Speaker 1: to dance with lapland witches, while the laboring moon eclipses
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Speaker 1: at their charms. The other shape, if shape, it might
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Speaker 1: be called, that shape, had none distinguishable in member, joint,
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Speaker 1: or limb, or substance, might be called that shadow seemed,
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Speaker 1: for each seemed either blacket stood as night, fierce as
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Speaker 1: ten furies, terrible as hell, and shook a dreadful dart.
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Speaker 1: What seemed on his head the likeness of a kingly
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Speaker 1: crown had on Satan was now at hand, and from
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Speaker 1: his seat the monster, moving onward, came as fast, with
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Speaker 1: horrid strides, held trembled as he strode th undaunted fiend,
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Speaker 1: what this might be? Admired? Admired, not feared? God and
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Speaker 1: his son accept created thing, nought valued, he nor shunned,
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Speaker 1: And with disdainful look thus first began. Whence and what
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Speaker 1: art thou excorrable shape that dareest through grim and terrible
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Speaker 1: advance thy miscreated front hathwart my way to yonder gates?
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Speaker 1: Through them, I mean to pass, that be assured without leave,
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Speaker 1: asked of thee, retire, or taste thy folly, and learn
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Speaker 1: by proof hell born not to contend with spirits of Heaven,
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Speaker 1: to whom the goblin full of wrath replied, Art thou,
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Speaker 1: that traitor angel, Art thou, he who first broke peace
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Speaker 1: in Heaven and faith till then, unbroken and in proud
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Speaker 1: rebellious arms drew after him. The third part of Heaven's
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Speaker 1: Sons conjured against the Highest, for which both thou and
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Speaker 1: they outcast from God are here condemned to waste eternal
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Speaker 1: days in woe and pain and reckon'st Thou thyself, with
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Speaker 1: spirits of Heaven hell, doomed and breathest defiance here and scorn,
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Speaker 1: where I reign King, and to enrage thee more thy
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Speaker 1: king and Lord. Back to thy punishment, false fugitive, and
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Speaker 1: to thy speed ad wings lest with a whip of scorpions,
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Speaker 1: I pursue thy lingering, or with one stroke of this
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Speaker 1: dart strange horror sees thee and pangs unfelt before so
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Speaker 1: spake the grisly terror, and in shape, so speaking and
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Speaker 1: so threatening, grew tenfold more dreadful and deform. On the
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Speaker 1: other side, incensed with indignation, Satan stood unterrified, and like
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Speaker 1: a comet burned that fires the length of Efucus huge
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Speaker 1: in arctic sky, and from his horrid hair shakes pestilence
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Speaker 1: and war, each at the head, leveled his deadly aim
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Speaker 1: their fatal hands. No second stroke intend, and such a
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Speaker 1: each cast at the other, as when two black clouds
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Speaker 1: with Heaven's artillery fraught come rattling on over the Caspian
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Speaker 1: then stand front to front, hovering a space till winds
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Speaker 1: the signal blow to join their dark encounter in mid air.
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Speaker 1: So frowned the mighty combatants that Hell grew darker at
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Speaker 1: their frown. So matched they stood for never, but once
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Speaker 1: more was either like to meet so great a foe.
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Speaker 1: And now great deeds had been achieved, whereof all Hell
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Speaker 1: had rung, had not the snaky sorceress that sat fast
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Speaker 1: by hell gate and kept the fatal key risen, and
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Speaker 1: with hideous outcry, rushed between O father, What intends thy hand?
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Speaker 1: She cried, against thy only son, what furio son possesses
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Speaker 1: thee to bend that mortal dart against thy father's head,
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Speaker 1: and knowst for whom, for him who sits above and
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Speaker 1: laughs the while at thee ordains his drudge to execute
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Speaker 1: whate'er his wrath, which he calls just bids, his wrath,
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Speaker 1: which one day will destroy ye. Both she spake, and
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Speaker 1: at her words the hellish pest forebore. Then these to
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Speaker 1: her Satan returned so strange thy outcry and thy words,
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Speaker 1: so strange thou interposest, that by my sudden hand prevented
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Speaker 1: spares to tell THEE, yet by deeds what it intends?
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Speaker 1: Till first I know of THEE? What thing thou art
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Speaker 1: thus double formed? And why in this internal veil first
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Speaker 1: met thou callest me father, and that phantasm call'st my son.
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Speaker 1: I know THEE, not nor ever saw till now sight
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Speaker 1: more detestable than him and THEE to whom thus the
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Speaker 1: portress of Helgate replied, hast thou forgot me then? And
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Speaker 1: do I seem now in thine eye so foul once
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Speaker 1: deemed so fair in heaven? When at the assembly and
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Speaker 1: in sight of all the seraphim with THEE, combined in
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Speaker 1: bold conspiracy against Heaven's king, all on a sudden miserable
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Speaker 1: pain surprised THEE. Dim thine eyes and dizzy swum in darkness,
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Speaker 1: while thy head flames thick and fast, drew forth till
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Speaker 1: on the left side, opening wide, likest THEE in shape
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Speaker 1: and countenance bright, then shining heavenly fair. A goddess armed
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Speaker 1: out of thy head. I sprung amazement, seized all the
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Speaker 1: host of Heaven back. They recoiled, afraid at first, and
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Speaker 1: called me sin, and for a sign portentous held me
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Speaker 1: but familiar groan I pleased and with attractive graces one
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Speaker 1: the most diverse, THEE chiefly who full aft thyself in
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Speaker 1: me thy perfect image viewing became st enamored, and such
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Speaker 1: joy thou tooxt with me in secret, that my womb
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Speaker 1: conceived a growing burden. Meanwhile, war arose, and fields were
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Speaker 1: fought in heaven wherein remained for what could else to
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Speaker 1: our almighty foe, clear victory to our part loss and
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Speaker 1: rout through all the Empyrean Down they fell, driven headlong
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Speaker 1: from the pitch of heaven down into this deep and
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Speaker 1: in the general fall. I also, at which time this
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Speaker 1: powerful key into my hand was given, with charge to
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Speaker 1: keep these gaits for ever shut, which none can pass
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Speaker 1: without my opening. Pensive here I sat alone, but long
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Speaker 1: I sat, not till my womb pregnant by THEE, and
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Speaker 1: now excessive groan, prodigious motion, felt and rueful throes. At last,
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Speaker 1: this odious offspring, whom thou seest thine own begotten, breaking
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Speaker 1: violent way, tore through my entrails, that, with fear and pain,
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Speaker 1: distorted all my nether shape thus grew transformed. But he,
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Speaker 1: my inbred enemy, forth issued brandishing his fatal dart made
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Speaker 1: to destroy I fled and cried out death. Hell trembled
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Speaker 1: at the hideous name, and sighed from all her caves,
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Speaker 1: and back resounded death. I fled, but he pursued, though
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Speaker 1: more it seems inflamed with lust than rage, and swift
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Speaker 1: far me overtook his mother, all dismayed and in embraces
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Speaker 1: forcible and foul, engendering with me of that rape begot
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Speaker 1: these yelling monsters that, with ceaseless cry, surround me as
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Speaker 1: thou sawest, hourly conceived and hourly born, with sorrow infinite
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Speaker 1: to me. For when they list into the womb that
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Speaker 1: bred them, they return and howl, and nor my bowels
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Speaker 1: there are past, then bursting forth afresh with conscious terrors,
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Speaker 1: vex me round that rest or intermission. None I find
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Speaker 1: before mine eyes in opposition sits grim death, my son
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Speaker 1: and foe who sets them on and me his parent
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Speaker 1: would full soon devour for want of other prey. But
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Speaker 1: that he knows his end with mine involved, and knows
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Speaker 1: that I should prove a bitter morsel and his bane
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Speaker 1: whenever that shall be so fate pronounced. But thou, o father,
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Speaker 1: I forewarn thee shun his deadly arrow, neither vainly hope
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Speaker 1: to be invulnerable in those bright arms, though tempered heavy,
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Speaker 1: for that mortal dint. Save he who reigns above, none
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Speaker 1: can resist, she finished, and the subtle fiend his law
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Speaker 1: soon learned now milder, and thus answered, smooth, dear daughter,
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Speaker 1: since thou claim'st me for thy sire and my fair son,
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Speaker 1: here showst me the dear pledge of deliance had with
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Speaker 1: THEE in heaven and joys then sweet now sad to
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Speaker 1: mention through dire change befallen us unforeseen unthought of know
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Speaker 1: I come no enemy, but to set free from out
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Speaker 1: this dark and dismal house of pain, both him and THEE,
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Speaker 1: and all the heavenly host of spirits that, in our
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Speaker 1: just pretenses armed fell with us from one high from them,
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Speaker 1: I go, this uncouth errand soul, and one for all
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Speaker 1: myself expose with lonely steps to tread the unfounded deep,
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Speaker 1: and through the void immense, to search with wandering quest
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Speaker 1: a place foretold should be, and by concurring signs ere
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Speaker 1: now created of our dust and round a place of
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Speaker 1: bliss in Appolus of heaven, and therein placed a race
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Speaker 1: of upstart creatures to supply perhaps our vacant room, though
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Speaker 1: more removed least heavens surcharged with potent multitude might hap
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Speaker 1: to move new broils, be this or out than this,
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Speaker 1: more secret now designed I haste to know, And this,
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Speaker 1: once known, shall soon return and bring ye to the
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Speaker 1: place where thou and Death shalt dwell at ease, and
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Speaker 1: up and down unseen, wing silently the buxom air embalmed
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Speaker 1: with odors. There ye shall be fed and filled immeasurably.
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Speaker 1: All things shall be your prey. He ceased, for both
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Speaker 1: seemed highly pleased, and Death grinned horrible, a ghastly smile
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Speaker 1: to hear his famine should be filled and blessed is
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Speaker 1: more destined that good hour no less rejoiced his mother bad,
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Speaker 1: and thus bespake her sire the key of this infernal
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Speaker 1: pit by dew and by command of Heaven's all powerful kreing,
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Speaker 1: I keep by him forbidden to unlock these adamantine gates
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Speaker 1: against all force. Death ready stands to interpose his dart,
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Speaker 1: fearless to be o'ermatched by living might. But what o
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Speaker 1: I to his commands above? Who hates me and hath
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Speaker 1: hither thrust me down into this gloom of Tartarus, profound
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Speaker 1: to sit in hateful office here, confined, inhabitant of heaven
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Speaker 1: and heavenly born, here in perpetual agony and pain, with
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Speaker 1: terrors and with clamours compassed round of mine own brood,
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Speaker 1: that on my bowels feed Thou art, my father, thou
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Speaker 1: my author, Thou my being gafst me whom should I obey,
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Speaker 1: but thee whom follow Thou wilt bring me soon to
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Speaker 1: that new world of light and bliss among the gods
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Speaker 1: who live at ease, where I shall reign at thy
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Speaker 1: right hand, voluptuous as beseems thy daughter and thy darling
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Speaker 1: without end. Thus saying from her side the fatal key, sad,
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Speaker 1: insane trum, and of all our woe, she took, and
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Speaker 1: towards the gate, ruling her bestial train forthwith the huge
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Speaker 1: poor cullis high updrew, which but herself, not all Astygian powers,
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Speaker 1: could once have moved. Then in the keyhole turns lyintricate wards,
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Speaker 1: and every bolt and bar of massy iron or solid rock,
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Speaker 1: with ease unfastens on a sudden open fly, with impetuous
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Speaker 1: recoil and jarring sound, with infernal doors, and on their
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Speaker 1: hinges great harsh thunder, that the lowest bottom shook of erebus.
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Speaker 1: She opened, but to shut excelled her power. The gates
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Speaker 1: wide open, stood that with extended wings, a bannered host
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Speaker 1: under spread ensign's marching might pass through, with horse and
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Speaker 1: chariots ranked in loose ray, so wide they stood, and
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Speaker 1: like a furnace mouth cast forth redounding smoke and ruddy
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Speaker 1: flame before their eyes. In sudden view appear the secrets
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Speaker 1: of the hoary Deep, a dark, illimitable ocean without bound,
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Speaker 1: without dimension, where length, breadth and height, and time and
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Speaker 1: place are lost, Where eldest knight and chaos, ancestors of
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Speaker 1: nature hold eternal anarchy amidst the noise of endless wars,
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Speaker 1: and by confusion stand for hot, cold, moist and dry.
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Speaker 1: Four champions fierce strive here for mastery and to battle,
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Speaker 1: bring their embryon atoms. They around the flag of each
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Speaker 1: his faction. In their several clans, light armed or heavy, sharp, smooth,
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Speaker 1: swift or slow swarm populace unnumbered as the sands of
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Speaker 1: Barker or Syrenees, torrid soil, leavid to side with warring winds,
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Speaker 1: and poise their lighter wings to whom these most adhere
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Speaker 1: he rules a moment chaos umpire sits, and by decision
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Speaker 1: more embroils the fray by which he reigns. Next him,
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Speaker 1: high arbiter Chance governs all into this wild abyss, the
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Speaker 1: womb of nature and perhaps her grave of Neither sea
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Speaker 1: nor shore, nor air nor fire, but all these, in
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Speaker 1: their pregnant causes, mixed confusedly, and which thus must ever fight,
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Speaker 1: unless the Almighty make of them, ordain his dark materials
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Speaker 1: to create more worlds into this wild abyss. The wary
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Speaker 1: fiend stood on the brink of hell and looked awhile
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Speaker 1: pondering his voyage, for no narrow frith he had to cross,
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Speaker 1: Nor was his ear less peeled with noises loud and ruinous.
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Speaker 1: To compare great things with small than when Bellona storms
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Speaker 1: with all her battering engines, bent to raise some capital city,
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Speaker 1: or less than if this frame of heaven were falling,
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Speaker 1: and these elements in mutiny had from her axle torn
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Speaker 1: the steadfast earth. At last his sail board veins he
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Speaker 1: spreads for flight, and in the surging smoke uplifted spurns
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Speaker 1: the ground. Thence many a league as in a cloudy
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Speaker 1: chair ascending rides audacious, but that seat soon failing, meets
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Speaker 1: a vast vacuity, all unawares, fluttering his pennons vain plum down,
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Speaker 1: he drops ten thousand fadden deep, and to this hour
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Speaker 1: down had been falling, had not, by ill chance, the
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Speaker 1: strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud instinct with fire and nitra,
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Speaker 1: hurried him as many miles aloft, that fury stayed quenched
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Speaker 1: in a boggy surface, neither sea nor good dry land,
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Speaker 1: nigh foundered on. He fares treading the crude consistence, half
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Speaker 1: on foot, half flying. Behooves him now both awe and sail.
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Speaker 1: As when a griffin through the wilderness with winged course
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Speaker 1: o'er hill or maury Dale pursues the Arimaspian, who by
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Speaker 1: stealth had from his wakeful custody purloined the guarded gold.
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Speaker 1: So eagerly the fiend o'er bog or steep through straight, rough,
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Speaker 1: dense or rare, with head, hands, wings or feet, pursues
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Speaker 1: his way and swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps
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Speaker 1: or flies at length. A universal hubbub wild of stunning
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Speaker 1: sounds and voices, all confused borne through the hollow dark
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Speaker 1: assaults his ear with loudest vehemence. Thither he plies, undaunted,
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Speaker 1: to meet there whatever power or spirit of the nethermost
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Speaker 1: abyss might in that noise reside of whom to ask
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Speaker 1: which way the nearest coast of darkness lies bordering on light?
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Speaker 1: When straight behold the throne of Chaos and his dark
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Speaker 1: pavilions spread wide on a wasteful deep, with him enthroned
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Speaker 1: sat sable, vested Night, eldest of things, the consort of
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Speaker 1: his reign, And by them stood Orcus and Ades and
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Speaker 1: the dreaded name of Demagorgon, Rumor Next, and chance and tumult, confusion,
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Speaker 1: all embroiled and discord with a thousand various mouths, to
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Speaker 1: whom Satan turning boldly. Thus, ye powers and spirits of
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Speaker 1: this nethermost Abyss, Chaos and Ancient Knight. I come no
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Speaker 1: spy with purpose to explore or to disturb the secrets
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Speaker 1: of your realm, but by constraint, wondering this darksome desert,
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Speaker 1: as my way lies through your spacious empire, up to light,
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Speaker 1: Alone and without guide, half lost, I seek what readiest
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Speaker 1: path leads where your gloomy bounds confine with Heaven, or
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Speaker 1: if some other place from your dominion ie the ethereal
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Speaker 1: king possesses lately thither to arrive. I travel this profound direct,
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Speaker 1: my course directed, no mean recompense. It brings to your
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Speaker 1: behoof if I that region lost, or the usurpation thus expelled,
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Speaker 1: reduce to her original darkness and your sway, which is
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Speaker 1: my present journey, and once more erect the standard there
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Speaker 1: of ancient night. Yours be the advantage all mine, the
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Speaker 1: revenge thus Satan and him. Thus the annok Old, with
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Speaker 1: faltering speech and visage incomposed, answered, I know thee stranger
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Speaker 1: who thou art, that mighty leading angel, who of late
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Speaker 1: made head against Heaven's king. Though overthrown, I saw and
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Speaker 1: heard for such a numerous host fled not in silence
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Speaker 1: through the frighted deep, with ruin upon ruin, rout on rout,
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Speaker 1: confusion worse confounded, and heaven gates poured out by millions
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Speaker 1: her victorious bands pursuing I upon my frontiers. Here, keep residence,
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Speaker 1: if all I can will serve that little which is
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Speaker 1: left so to defend. Encroached on still to our intestine
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Speaker 1: broils weakening the scepter of old knight. First Hell, your dungeon,
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Speaker 1: stretching far and wide beneath now lately Heaven and earth,
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Speaker 1: another wild hung o'er my realm linked in a golden
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Speaker 1: chain to that side Heaven, from whence your legions fell.
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Speaker 1: If that way be your walk, you have not far
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Speaker 1: so much the nearer danger go and speed, havoc and
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Speaker 1: spoil and ruin a my gain. He ceased, and Satan
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Speaker 1: stayed not to reply, but glad now that his sea
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Speaker 1: should find ashore with fresh alacrity and force. Renewed springs
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Speaker 1: upward like a pyramid of fire, into the wild expanse,
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Speaker 1: and through the shock of fighting elements on all sides
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Speaker 1: round environed wins his way, harder, beset, and more endangered
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Speaker 1: than when Argo passed through Bosphorus betwixt the justling rocks,
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Speaker 1: or when Ulysses on the larboard shunned Charybdis and by
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Speaker 1: the other whirlpool steered. So he, with difficulty and labor hard,
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Speaker 1: moved on with difficulty, labor he but he once passed
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Speaker 1: soon after when man fell strange, alteration, sin and death,
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Speaker 1: a man following his track. Such was the will of
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Speaker 1: Heaven paved after him, a broad and beaten way over
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Speaker 1: the dark abyss, whose boiling gulf tamely endured. A bridge
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Speaker 1: of wondrous length from Hell continued, reaching the utmost orb
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Speaker 1: of this frail world, by which the spirits perverse with
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Speaker 1: easy intercourse, passed to and fro to tempt or punish mortals,
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Speaker 1: except whom God and good angels guard by special grace.
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Speaker 1: But now at last the sacred influence of light appears,
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Speaker 1: and from the walls of Heaven shoots far into the
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Speaker 1: bosom of dim night, a glimmering dawn. Here Nature first
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Speaker 1: begins her farthest verge, and chaos to retire, as from
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Speaker 1: her utmost works. A broken foe with tumult less and
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Speaker 1: with less hostile din that Satan, with less toil and
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Speaker 1: now with ease, wafts on the calmer wave by dubious light,
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Speaker 1: and like a weather beaten vessel, holds gladly the port,
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Speaker 1: though shrouds and tackle torn or in the emptier waist
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Speaker 1: resembling air, weighs his spread wings at leisure to behold
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Speaker 1: far off the imperial heaven, extended wide in circuit undetermined
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Speaker 1: square or round, with opal towers and battlements, adorned of
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Speaker 1: living sapphire, once his native seat, and fast by hanging
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Speaker 1: in a golden chain, this pendent world in bigness, as
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Speaker 1: a star of smallest magnitude close by the moon, thither full,
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Speaker 1: fraught with mischievous revenge. Accursed, and in a cursed hour
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Speaker 1: he hies the end of the second part of the
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Speaker 1: second book