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01 - Paradise Lost - John Milton · Philosophy and Faith

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  Speaker 1: Book eight, Part one. No more of talk where God
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  Speaker 1: or Angel guessed with Man, as with his friend familiar,
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  Speaker 1: used to sit indulgent and with him partake rural repast,
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  Speaker 1: permitting him the while venial discourse unblamed. I now must
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  Speaker 1: change those notes to tragic foul, distrust and breach, disloyal
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  Speaker 1: on the part of Man, revolt and disobedience on the
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  Speaker 1: part of Heaven, now alienated, distance and distaste, anger and
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  Speaker 1: just rebuke and judgment, given that brought into this world
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  Speaker 1: a world of woe, sin and her shadow, death and misery,
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  Speaker 1: Death's harbinger sad task yet argument not less but more
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  Speaker 1: heroic than the wrath of stern Achilles on his foe
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  Speaker 1: pursued thrice fugitive about troy Wall or rage of Turnus
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  Speaker 1: for Lavinia disespoused, or Neptune's ire or Juno's that so
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  Speaker 1: long perplexed the Greek and Scythia's son. If answerable style,
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  Speaker 1: I can obtain of my celestial patroness who deigns her
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  Speaker 1: nightly visitation unimplored and dictates to me slumbering or inspires
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  Speaker 1: easy my unpremeditated verse. Since first this subject for heroic
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  Speaker 1: song pleased me long choosing and beginning late, not sedulous
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  Speaker 1: by nature to indict wars hitherto the only argument heroic
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  Speaker 1: deemed chief mastery to dissect with long and tedious havoc,
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  Speaker 1: Fabled knights in battles feigned the better fortitude of patience
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  Speaker 1: and heroic martyrdom unsung, Or to describe races and games,
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  Speaker 1: or tilting furniture, emblazoned shields, impresses, quaint caparisons and steeds,
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  Speaker 1: basses and tinsel trappings, gorgeous nights at joust and tournament,
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  Speaker 1: then martialed feasts served up in hall with sewers and senesials.
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  Speaker 1: The skill of art or office mean not that which
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  Speaker 1: justly gives heroic name to person or to poem. Me
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  Speaker 1: of these, nor skilled nor studious. Higher argument remains sufficient
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  Speaker 1: of itself to raise that name, unless an age too late,
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  Speaker 1: or cold climate, or year's damp. My intended wing depressed,
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  Speaker 1: and much they may if all be mine, not hers
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  Speaker 1: who brings it nightly to my ear. The sun was sunk,
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  Speaker 1: and after him the star of Hesperus, whose office is
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  Speaker 1: to bring twilight upon the earth short arbiter TwixT day
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  Speaker 1: and night, and now from end to end Knight's hemisphere
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  Speaker 1: had veiled the horizon round. When Satan, who late fled
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  Speaker 1: before the threats of Gabriel out of Eden, now improved
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  Speaker 1: in meditated fraud and malice, bent on man's destruction, Maugre
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  Speaker 1: what might hap of heavier on himself, fearless returned by
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  Speaker 1: night he fled, and at midnight retire turned from compassing
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  Speaker 1: the earth, cautious of day, since Uril region of the
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  Speaker 1: sun descried his entrance and forewarned the Cherubim that kept
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  Speaker 1: their watch. Thence full of anguish, driven the space of
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  Speaker 1: seven continued nights, he rode with darkness thrice the equinoctial
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  Speaker 1: line he circled four times, crossed the car of night
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  Speaker 1: from pole to pole, traversing each collure. On the eighth
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  Speaker 1: returned and on the coast, averse from entrance or Cherubic watch,
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  Speaker 1: by stealth, found unsuspected way there was a place now
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  Speaker 1: not though sin not Time first wrought the change where
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  Speaker 1: Tigris at the foot of Paradise into a gulf shot
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  Speaker 1: underground till part rose up a fountain by the tree
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  Speaker 1: of life. In with the river sunk, and with it
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  Speaker 1: rose Satan involved in rising mist. Then sought where to
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  Speaker 1: lie hid sea he had searched, and land from Eden
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  Speaker 1: over Pontus and the pool Meiotis up beyond the river
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  Speaker 1: ob downward as far Antarctic, and in length west from
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  Speaker 1: Orantes to the ocean barred at Darien, thence to the
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  Speaker 1: land where flows Ganges and Indus. Thus the orb he roamed,
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  Speaker 1: with narrow search and with inspection deep considered every creature,
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  Speaker 1: which of all most opportune might serve his wiles, and
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  Speaker 1: found the serpent, subtlest beast of all the field him.
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  Speaker 1: After long debate, irresolute of thoughts, revolved his final sentence,
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  Speaker 1: chose fit vessel, fittest imp of fraud, in whom to enter,
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  Speaker 1: and his dark suggestions hide from sharpest sight. For in
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  Speaker 1: the wily snake, whatever slights, none would suspicious mark as
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  Speaker 1: from his wit and native subtlety, proceeding which in other
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  Speaker 1: beasts observed doubt might beget of diabolic power active within
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  Speaker 1: beyond the sense of brute. Thus he resolved, but first
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  Speaker 1: from inward grief, his bursting passion into plaints. Thus poured
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  Speaker 1: o earth, how like to Heaven, if not preferred more
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  Speaker 1: justly seat worthier of gods, as built with second thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: reforming what was old for what God after better worse
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  Speaker 1: would build terrestrial heaven danced round by other heavens that
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  Speaker 1: shine yet bear their bright, officious lamps, light above light
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  Speaker 1: for THEE alone, as seems in THEE, concentering all their
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  Speaker 1: precious beams of sacred influence, as God in heaven is center,
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  Speaker 1: yet extends to all. So thou centering receivest from all
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  Speaker 1: these orbs in THEE, not in themselves. All their known
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  Speaker 1: virtue appears productive in herb, plant and nobler birth of creatures, animate,
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  Speaker 1: with gradual life, of growth, sense, reason, all summed up
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  Speaker 1: in man with what delight? Could I have walked THEE
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  Speaker 1: round if I could joy in aught sweet interchange of
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  Speaker 1: hill and valley, rivers, woods and plains, now land, now
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  Speaker 1: sea and shores with forest crowned rocks, dens and caves.
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  Speaker 1: But I in none of these fine place or refuge.
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  Speaker 1: And the more I see pleasures about me, so much
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  Speaker 1: more I feel torment within me, as from the hateful
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  Speaker 1: siege of contraries. All good to me becomes bane, and
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  Speaker 1: in heaven much worse would be my state. But neither
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  Speaker 1: here seek I no nor in heaven to dwell unless
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  Speaker 1: by mastering Heavens supreme, nor hope to be myself less
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  Speaker 1: miserable by what I seek, but others to make such
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  Speaker 1: as I, though thereby worse to me redound. For only
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  Speaker 1: in destroying I find ease to my relentless thoughts, and
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  Speaker 1: him destroyed, or one to what may work his utter loss,
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  Speaker 1: for whom all this was made, All this will soon follow,
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  Speaker 1: as to him linked in weal or woe in woe,
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  Speaker 1: then that destruction wide may range to me shall be
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  Speaker 1: the glorious soul among the infernal powers, in one day
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  Speaker 1: to have marred what he Almighty styled. Six nights and
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  Speaker 1: days continued making, and who knows how long before had
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  Speaker 1: been contriving, though perhaps not longer than since I, in
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  Speaker 1: one night freed from servitude in glorious well, nigh half
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  Speaker 1: the angelic name, and thinner left the throng of his adorers,
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  Speaker 1: he to be avenged and to repair his numbers, thus impaired.
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  Speaker 1: Whether such virtues spent of old now failed more angels
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  Speaker 1: to create, if they at least are His created, or
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  Speaker 1: to spite us more determined to advance into our room,
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  Speaker 1: a creature formed of earth and him endow, exalted from
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  Speaker 1: so base original with heavenly spoils, our spoils. What he decreed,
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  Speaker 1: he affected, Man he made, and for him built magnificent
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  Speaker 1: this world and earth his seat him Lord pronounced, and
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  Speaker 1: oh indignity subjected to his service, angel wings and flaming ministers,
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  Speaker 1: to watch and tend their earthly charge. Of these the
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  Speaker 1: vigilance I dread and to elude. Thus wrapped in mist
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  Speaker 1: of midnight, vapor, glide, obscure, and pry in every bush
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  Speaker 1: and break wherehap may find the serpent sleeping in whose
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  Speaker 1: mazy folds to hide me and the dark intent I
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  Speaker 1: bring o foul descent that I, who erst contended with
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  Speaker 1: gods to sit the highest, am now constrained into a
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  Speaker 1: beast and mixed with bestial slime, this essence to incarnate
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  Speaker 1: and imbrute that to the height of deity aspired. But
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  Speaker 1: what will not ambition and revenge descend to who aspires
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  Speaker 1: must down as low as high he soared, obnoxious first
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  Speaker 1: or last to basest things, revenge at first, those sweet
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  Speaker 1: bitterer long back on itself recoils, Let it I reck
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  Speaker 1: not so it light well aimed, Since higher I fall
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  Speaker 1: short on him who next provokes my envy, this new
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  Speaker 1: favorite of Heaven, this man of Clay, son of Despite,
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  Speaker 1: who must the more to spite his maker. Raised from dust, spite,
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  Speaker 1: then with spite his best repaid. So saying through each
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  Speaker 1: thicket dank or dry, like a black mist, low creeping,
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  Speaker 1: he held on his midnight search where soonest he might
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  Speaker 1: find the serpent him fast sleeping. Soon he found in
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  Speaker 1: labyrinth of many a round self rolled his head, the
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  Speaker 1: midst well stored with subtle wiles, not yet in horrid
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  Speaker 1: shade or dismal den nor noisent yet, But on the
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  Speaker 1: grassy herb, fearless, unfeared, he slept in at his mouth.
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  Speaker 1: The devil entered, and his brutal sense in heart or
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  Speaker 1: head possessing soon inspired with act intelligential, but his sleep disturbed,
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  Speaker 1: not waiting close the approach of morn. Now, when as
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  Speaker 1: sacred light began to dawn in Eden, on the humid
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  Speaker 1: flowers that breathed their morning in, when all things that
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  Speaker 1: breathe from the Earth's great altar send up silent praise
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  Speaker 1: to the Creator, and his nostrils fill with grateful smell,
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  Speaker 1: Forth came the human pair and joined their vocal worship
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  Speaker 1: to the choir of creature's wanting voice, that done partake
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  Speaker 1: the season prime for sweetest scents and airs, then commune
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  Speaker 1: how that day they best may ply their growing work.
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  Speaker 1: For much their work out grew the hand's dispatch of
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  Speaker 1: two gardenings so wide and eve first to her husband
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  Speaker 1: thus began Adam, Well, may we labor still to dress
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  Speaker 1: this garden, still to tend, plant, herb and flower. Our
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  Speaker 1: pleasant task enjoined. But till more hands aid us, the
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  Speaker 1: work under our labor grows luxurious. By restraint. What we
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  Speaker 1: by day lop overgrown, or prune, or prop or bind
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  Speaker 1: one night or two with wanton growth derides tending to wild.
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  Speaker 1: Thou therefore, now advise or hear what to my mind
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  Speaker 1: first thoughts, pre Let us divide our labors Thou where
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  Speaker 1: choice leads thee or where most needs, whether to wind
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  Speaker 1: the woodbine round this arbor, or direct the clasping ivy
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  Speaker 1: where to climb, While I in yonder spring of roses
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  Speaker 1: intermixed with myrtle, find what to redress till noon. For
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  Speaker 1: while so near each other, Thus all day our task
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  Speaker 1: we choose what wonder if so near looks intervene and
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  Speaker 1: smiles or object new casual discourse draw on which intermits
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  Speaker 1: our day's work brought to little, though begun early, and
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  Speaker 1: the hour of supper comes unearned, to whom mild answer.
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  Speaker 1: Adam thus returned soul, Eve, associate's soul to me beyond
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  Speaker 1: compare above all living creatures. Dear well, hast thou motioned, well,
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  Speaker 1: thy thoughts employed, how we might best fulfill the work
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  Speaker 1: which here God hath assigned us. Nor of me shalt
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  Speaker 1: pass unpraised. For nothing lovelier can be found in woman
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  Speaker 1: than to study household good and good works in her husband,
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  Speaker 1: and to promote. Yet not so strictly hath our Lord
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  Speaker 1: imposed labor as to debar us when we need refreshment,
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  Speaker 1: whether food or talk, between food of the mind or
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  Speaker 1: this sweet intercourse of looks and smiles for smiles from
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  Speaker 1: reason flow to brute denied, and are of love. The
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  Speaker 1: food love not the lowest end of human life, For
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  Speaker 1: not to irksome toil, but to delight He made us,
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  Speaker 1: and delight to reason. Joined these paths and bowers, doubt not,
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  Speaker 1: but our joint hands will keep from wilderness with ease
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  Speaker 1: as white as we need walk till younger hands ere
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  Speaker 1: long assist us. But if much converse, perhaps THEE satiate
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  Speaker 1: to short absence I could yield, for solitude sometimes is
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  Speaker 1: best society, and short retirement urges sweet return. But other
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  Speaker 1: doubt possesses me lest harm befall THEE severed from me.
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  Speaker 1: For thou knowest what hath been warned us? What malicious foe,
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  Speaker 1: envying our happiness and of his own despairing, seek to
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  Speaker 1: work us woe and shame by sly assault, And somewhere
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  Speaker 1: nigh at hand watches no doubt, with greedy hope to
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  Speaker 1: find his wish and best advantage us asunder hopeless to
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  Speaker 1: circumvent us join'd where each to other speedy aid might
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  Speaker 1: land at need, whether his first design be to withdraw
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  Speaker 1: our fealty from God, or to disturb conjugal love than
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  Speaker 1: which perhaps no bliss enjoyed by us excites his envy
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  Speaker 1: more or this or worse leave not the faithful side
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  Speaker 1: that gave THEE being still shades THEE and protects the
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  Speaker 1: wife where danger or dishonor lurks, safest and seemlest by
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  Speaker 1: her husband's stays, Who guards her or with her the
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  Speaker 1: worst endures to whom the virgin Majesty of Eve, as
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  Speaker 1: one who loves and some unkindness meets with sweet austere composure.
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  Speaker 1: Thus replied, offspring of Heaven and Earth and all Earth's Lord,
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  Speaker 1: that such an enemy we have who seeks our ruin,
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  Speaker 1: both by thee informed thy learn and from the parting
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  Speaker 1: angel overheard as in a shady nook, I stood behind,
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  Speaker 1: just then returned at shut of evening flowers. But that
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  Speaker 1: thou shouldst my firmness therefore doubt to God or THEE,
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  Speaker 1: because we have a foe may tempt it. I expected
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  Speaker 1: not to hear his violence. Thou fear'st not being such
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  Speaker 1: as we, not capable of death or pain, can either
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  Speaker 1: not receive or can repel his fraud. Is then thy fear,
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  Speaker 1: which plain infers Thy equal fear that my firm faith
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  Speaker 1: and love can by his fraud be shaken or seduced.
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  Speaker 1: Thoughts which, how found they harbor in thy breast. Adam
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  Speaker 1: misthought of her to THEE, so dear to whom with
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  Speaker 1: healing words, Adam replied, daughter of God and Man immortal Eve,
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  Speaker 1: for such thou art from sin and blame entire, not
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  Speaker 1: diffident of THEE do I dissuade thy absence from my sight,
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  Speaker 1: but to avoid the attempt itself intended by our foe.
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  Speaker 1: For he who tempts, though in vain, at least asperses
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  Speaker 1: the tempted with dishonor foul supposed not incorruptible of faith,
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  Speaker 1: not proof against temptation. Thou thyself, with scorn and anger,
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  Speaker 1: wouldst resent the offered wrong, though ineffectual found misdeem Not
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  Speaker 1: then if such affront I labor to avert from thee
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  Speaker 1: alone which on us both at once the enemy, though
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  Speaker 1: bold will hardly dare or daring first on me, the
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  Speaker 1: assault shall light. Nor thou his malice and false guile
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  Speaker 1: contemn subtle. He needs must be who could seduce angels,
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  Speaker 1: nor think superfluous others, aid I, from the influence of
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  Speaker 1: thy looks, receive access in every virtue in thy sight.
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  Speaker 1: More wise, more watchful, stronger if need were of outward strength,
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  Speaker 1: while shame Thou looking on shame to be overcome or
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  Speaker 1: overreached with utmost vigor rays and raised unite. Why shouldst
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  Speaker 1: not thou, like sense within THEE feel when I am
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  Speaker 1: pressed and thy trial, choose with me best witness of
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  Speaker 1: thy virtue tried, so spake domestic atom in his care
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  Speaker 1: and matrimonial love. But Eve, who thought less, attributed to
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  Speaker 1: her faith sincere. Thus her reply with accent sweet renewed.
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  Speaker 1: If this be our condition, thus, to dwell in narrow
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  Speaker 1: circuits straightened by a foe, subtle or violent, we not
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  Speaker 1: in endued, single with like defense wherever met, How are
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  Speaker 1: we happy? Still in fear of harm? But harm precedes
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  Speaker 1: not sin. Only our foe attempting affronts us with his
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  Speaker 1: foul esteem of our integrity. His foul esteem sticks no
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  Speaker 1: dishonor on our front, but turns foul on himself. Then, wherefore,
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  Speaker 1: shunned or feared by us, who rather double honor gain
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  Speaker 1: from his surmise proved false, find peace within favor from Heaven,
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  Speaker 1: our witness from the event. And what is faith love
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  Speaker 1: virtue unassayed alone without exterior help sustained. Let us not
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  Speaker 1: then suspect our happy state left so imperfect by the
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  Speaker 1: maker wise as not secure to single or combined, frail
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  Speaker 1: is our happiness? If this be so, and Eden were
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  Speaker 1: no Eden thus exposed to whom Thus Adam fervently replied, O, woman,
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  Speaker 1: best are all things as the will of God ordained
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  Speaker 1: them his creating hand. Nothing imperfect or deficient left of
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  Speaker 1: all that he created, much less man or aught that
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  Speaker 1: might his happy state secure, secure from outward force within himself.
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  Speaker 1: The danger lies yet lies within his power. Against his will.
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  Speaker 1: He can receive no harm. But God left free the
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  Speaker 1: will for what obeys reason is free, and reason he
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  Speaker 1: made right. But bid her well beware and still erect
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  Speaker 1: lest by some fair appearing good. Surprised, she dictate false
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  Speaker 1: and misinformed, the will to do what God expressly had forbid.
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  Speaker 1: Not then mistrust, but tender love enjoins that I should
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  Speaker 1: mind thee oft and mind thou me firm. We subsist,
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  Speaker 1: yet possible to swerve, since reason not impossibly may meet
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  Speaker 1: some specious object by the foe suborned and fall into deception, unaware,
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  Speaker 1: not keeping strictest watch, as she was warned, seek not temptation, then,
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  Speaker 1: which to avoid were better, and most likely if from
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  Speaker 1: me thou sever not, trial will come unsought, which thou
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  Speaker 1: approve thy constancy, approve first thy obedience the other who
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  Speaker 1: can know, not seeing thee attempted, who attest. But if
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  Speaker 1: thou think trial unsought, may find us both securer than
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  Speaker 1: thus warned thou seemest go for thy stay not free
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  Speaker 1: absents thee more go, in thy native innocence, rely on
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  Speaker 1: what thou hast of virtue summon all for God towards
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  Speaker 1: thee hath done his part. Do thine, so spake the
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  Speaker 1: patriarch of mankind. But Eve persisted, yet submiss though last
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  Speaker 1: replied with thy permission. Then, and thus forewarned chiefly by
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  Speaker 1: what thy own last reasoning words touched only that our trial,
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  Speaker 1: when least sought, may find us both perhaps far less prepared.
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  Speaker 1: The willinger I go, nor much expect a foe, so
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  Speaker 1: proud will first the weaker seek, so bent the more
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  Speaker 1: shall shame him his repulse. Thus saying, from her husband's hand,
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  Speaker 1: her hand soft, she withdrew, and like a wood nymph
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  Speaker 1: light oread or dryad Or of Delia's train betook her
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  Speaker 1: to the groves. But Delia's self, in gait surpassed, and
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  Speaker 1: goddess like deport though not as she with bow and quiver, armed,
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  Speaker 1: but with such gardening tools as art yet rude, guiltless
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  Speaker 1: of fire had formed, or angels brought to Pali's or
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  Speaker 1: Pomona thus adorned, likely as she seemed. Pomona when she
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  Speaker 1: fled vertumnus or to Ceres in her prime, yet virgin
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  Speaker 1: of Proserpina, from jove her long with ardent look, his
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  Speaker 1: eye pursued, delighted, but desiring more her stay oft he
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  Speaker 1: to her his charge of quick return. Repeated she to him,
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  Speaker 1: as oft engaged to be returned by noon, amid the
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  Speaker 1: bower and all things in best order, to invite noontide
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  Speaker 1: repast or afternoon's repose. O much deceived, much failing, hapless
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  Speaker 1: eve of thy presumed return event perverse thou never from
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  Speaker 1: that hour in paradise founst either sweet repast or sound repose.
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  Speaker 1: Such ambush hid among sweet flowers and shades, waited with
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  Speaker 1: hellish rancor imminent to intercept thy way or send thee back,
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  Speaker 1: despoiled of innocence, of faith, of bliss. For now and
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  Speaker 1: since the break of dawn, the fiend mere serpent in
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  Speaker 1: appearance forth was come, and on his quest where likeliest
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  Speaker 1: he might find the only two of mankind, but in
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  Speaker 1: them the whole included race his purposed prey. In bower
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  Speaker 1: and field he sought where any tuft of grove or
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  Speaker 1: garden plot more pleasant lay their tendons or plantation for
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  Speaker 1: delight by fountain or by shady rivulet. He sought them both,
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  Speaker 1: but wished his hap might find Eve separate. He wished,
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  Speaker 1: but not with hope of what so seldom chanced. When
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  Speaker 1: to his wish, beyond his hope, Eve separate, he spies,
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  Speaker 1: veiled in a cloud of fragrance, where she stood half spied,
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  Speaker 1: so thick the roses bushing round about her glowed oft,
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  Speaker 1: stooping to support each flower of slender stock, whose head,
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  Speaker 1: though gay carnation, purple azure, or specked with gold, hung drooping,
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  Speaker 1: unsustained them. She upstays gently with myrtle band mindless, the
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  Speaker 1: while herself, though fairest, unsupported flower from her best props
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  Speaker 1: so far, and storms so nigh nearer he drew, and
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  Speaker 1: many a walk traversed of stateless covert cedar pine or palm,
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  Speaker 1: then voluble and bold, now hid, now seen among thick
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  Speaker 1: woven arborates and flowers embroidered on each bank. The hand
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  Speaker 1: of Eve spot more delicious than those gardens famed, or
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  Speaker 1: of revived Adonis, or renowned alcinous host of old Laertes's son,
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  Speaker 1: or that not mystic where the sapient king held dalliance
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  Speaker 1: with his fair Egyptian spouse. Much he the place admired
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  Speaker 1: the person more as one who long in populous city Pent,
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  Speaker 1: where houses thick and sewers annoy the air. Forth, issuing
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  Speaker 1: on a summer's morn to breathe among the pleasant villages
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  Speaker 1: and farms adjoin'd from each thing met conceives delight, the
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  Speaker 1: smell of grain or teaded grass, or kine or dairy,
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  Speaker 1: each rural sight, each rural sound, if chance, with nymph
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  Speaker 1: like step fairer urgon pass. What pleasing seemed for her
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  Speaker 1: now pleases more she most, and in her look sums
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  Speaker 1: all delight. Such pleasure took the serpent to behold this
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  Speaker 1: flowery plat, the sweet recess of Eve, thus early, thus alone,
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  Speaker 1: her heavenly form, angelic but more soft and feminine, her
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  Speaker 1: graceful innocence. Her every air of gesture or least action
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  Speaker 1: overawed his malice, and with rapid sweet bereathed his fierceness
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  Speaker 1: of the fierce intended, brought that space. The evil one abstracted,
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  Speaker 1: stood from his own evil, and for the time remained
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  Speaker 1: stupidly good of enmity, disarmed of guile, of hate, of envy,
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  Speaker 1: of revenge, But the hot hell that always in him burns,
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  Speaker 1: though in mid heaven soon ended his delight and tortures
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  Speaker 1: him now more the more he sees of pleasure not
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  Speaker 1: for him ordained, Then soon fierce hate he recollects, and
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  Speaker 1: all his thoughts of mischief gratulating thus excites thoughts, whither
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  Speaker 1: have ye led me with what sweet compulsion thus transported?
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  Speaker 1: To forget what hither brought us hate, not love nor
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  Speaker 1: hope of paradise for hell hope here to taste of pleasure,
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  Speaker 1: but all pleasure to destroy, save what is in destroying
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  Speaker 1: other joy to me is lost. Then let me not
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  Speaker 1: let pass occasion, which now smiles behold alone the woman
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  Speaker 1: opportune to all attempts her husband, For I view far around,
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  Speaker 1: not nigh, whose higher intellectual more I shun, and strength
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  Speaker 1: of courage, haughty and of limb, heroic built, though of
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  Speaker 1: terrestrial mold, foe not informidable, exempt from wound, I not
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  Speaker 1: so much hath held debased and pain enfeebled me to
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  Speaker 1: what I was in heaven. She fair, divinely fair, fit
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  Speaker 1: love for God's not terrible, though terror be in love
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  Speaker 1: and beauty not approached by stronger hate hate stronger under
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  Speaker 1: show of love, well feigned the way which to her
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  Speaker 1: ruin now I tend so spake the enemy of mankind,
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  Speaker 1: enclosed in serpent inmate bad and toward Eve, addressed his way,
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  Speaker 1: not with indented wave prone on the ground, as sense,
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  Speaker 1: but on his rear circular base of rising folds that
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  Speaker 1: towered fold above fold, a surging maze, his head crested,
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  Speaker 1: aloft and carbuncle, his eyes with burnished neck of verdant gold,
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  Speaker 1: erect amidst his circling spires, that on the grass floated redundant.
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  Speaker 1: Pleasing was his shape and lovely, never since of serpent
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  Speaker 1: kind lovelier. Not those that in Illyria changed Hermione and Cadmus,
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  Speaker 1: or the god in Epidaurus, nor to which transformed Ammonian,
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  Speaker 1: Jove or Capitaline was seen He with Olympius, this with
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  Speaker 1: her who bore ship. He o the h height of room,
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  Speaker 1: with tract oblique, at first, as one who sought access,
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  Speaker 1: but feared to interrupt Sidelong he works his way. End
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  Speaker 1: of Book eight, Part one,