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With darkness-thrice the equinoctial line The space of seven continued nights he rode Of heavier on himself, fearless returned.īy night he fled, and at midnight returnedįrom compassing the Earth-cautious of day On Man's destruction, maugre what might hap When Satan, who late fled before the threats Night's hemisphere had veiled the horizon round, 'Twixt day and night, and now from end to end Not Hers who brings it nightly to my ear. That name, unless an age too late, or coldĭepressed and much they may if all be mine, Nor skilled nor studious, higher argument Served up in hall with sewers and seneshals:

Or tilting furniture, emblazoned shields,īases and tinsel trappings, gorgeous knightsĪt joust and tournament then marshalled feast With long and tedious havoc fabled knights Pleased me, long choosing and beginning late, Sad task! yet argumentĪnd dictates to me slumbering, or inspires That brought into this World a world of woe,ĭeath's harbinger. Those notes to tragic-foul distrust, and breachĪnger and just rebuke, and judgment given, With Man, as with his friend, familiar used The effects thereof in them both they seek to cover their nakedness then fall to variance and accusation of one another. Adam, at first amazed, but perceiving her lost, resolves, through vehemence of love, to perish with her, and, extenuating the trespass, eats also of the fruit. She, pleased with the taste, deliberates a while whether to impart thereof to Adam or not at last brings him of the fruit relates what persuaded her to eat thereof. Eve requires him to bring her to that tree, and finds it to be the Tree of Knowledge forbidden: the Serpent, now grown bolder, with many wiles and arguments induces her at length to eat. Eve, wondering to hear the Serpent speak, asks how he attained to human speech and such understanding not till now the Serpent answers that by tasting of a certain Tree in the Garden he attained both to speech and reason, till then void of both. The Serpent finds her alone: his subtle approach, first gazing, then speaking, with much flattery extolling Eve above all other creatures.

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Eve, loth to be thought not circumspect or firm enough, urges her going apart, the rather desirous to make trial of her strength Adam at last yields. Adam and Eve in the morning go forth to their labours, which Eve proposes to divide in several places, each labouring apart: Adam consents not, alleging the danger lest that Enemy of whom they were forewarned should attempt her found alone.

Satan, having compassed the Earth, with meditated guile returns as a mist by night into Paradise enters into the Serpent sleeping. Paradise Lost and Regained, by John Milton,, at

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