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Where to lie hid Sea he had searcht and Land Satan involv'd in rising Mist, then sought Now not, though Sin, not Time, first wraught the change, On the eighth return'd, and on the Coast averseįrom entrance or Cherubic Watch, by stealthįound unsuspected way. He circl'd, four times cross'd the Carr of Night įrom Pole to Pole, traversing each Colure With darkness, thrice the Equinoctial Line The space of seven continu'd Nights he rode

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That kept thir watch thence full of anguish driv'n, Of heavier on himself, fearless return'd.īy Night he fled, and at Midnight return'd.įrom compassing the Earth, cautious of day, On mans destruction, maugre what might hap When Satan who late fled before the threats Nights Hemisphere had veild the Horizon round: Twixt Day and Night, and now from end to end The Sun was sunk, and after him the Starr

Not Hers who brings it nightly to my Ear.

That name, unless an age too late, or coldĬlimat, or Years damp my intended wing ĭeprest, and much they may, if all be mine, Serv'd up in Hall with Sewers, and Seneshals Impreses quaint, Caparisons and Steeds īases and tinsel Trappings, gorgious KnightsĪt Joust and Torneament then marshal'd Feast Or tilting Furniture, emblazon'd Shields, With long and tedious havoc fabl'd Knights Pleas'd me long choosing, and beginning late Since first this Subject for Heroic Song

Of stern Achilles on his Foe pursu'd Īnd dictates to me slumb'ring, or inspires That brought into this World a world of woe, Those Notes to Tragic foul distrust, and breachĪnger and just rebuke, and judgement giv'n, Venial discourse unblam'd: I now must change With Man, as with his Friend, familiar us'd Eve wondring to hear the Serpent speak, asks how he attain'd to human speech and such understanding not till now the Serpent answers, that by tasting of a certain Tree in the Garden he attain'd both to Speech and Reason, till then void of both: 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 she pleas'd with the taste deliberates a while whether to impart thereof to Adam or not, at last brings him of the Fruit, relates what perswaded her to eat thereof: Adam at first amaz'd, but perceiving her lost, resolves through vehemence of love to perish with her and extenuating the trespass, eats also of the Fruit: The Effects thereof in them both they seek to cover thir nakedness then fall to variance and accusation of one another. Adam and Eve in the Morning go forth to thir labours, which Eve proposes to divide in several places, each labouring apart: Adam consents not, alledging the danger, lest that Enemy, of whom they were forewarn'd, should attempt her found alone: Eve loath to be thought not circumspect or firm enough, urges her going apart, the rather desirous to make tryal of her strength Adam at last yields: The Serpent finds her alone his subtle approach, first gazing, then speaking, with much flattery extolling Eve above all other Creatures. Satan having compast the Earth, with meditated guile returns as a mist by Night into Paradise, enters into the Serpent sleeping.