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H. Beeching
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alass and hudling. Indeed the spell
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defensible, but I have retained it
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On the other hand, in the passage (
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Transcriber's note: Facsimile of Ti
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THE STATIONER TO THE READER. It is
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The Hymn. I IT was the Winter wilde
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IX When such Musick sweet Their hea
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While the red fire, and smouldring
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Which on our dearest Lord did sease
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With Truth, and Peace, and Love sha
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Added to her noble birth, More then
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WHAT needs my Shakespear for his ho
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L'ALLEGRO. HENCE loathed Melancholy
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And then in haste her Bowre she lea
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Black, but such as in esteem, Princ
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Or call up him that left half told
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Donna leggiadra il cui bel nome hon
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De pensieri leggiadro, accorto, e b
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Part of an entertainment presented
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What ere the skill of lesser gods c
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That from beneath the seat of Jove
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Next Camus, reverend Sire, went foo
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And now was dropt into the Western
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Since your going, you have charg'd
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Of bright aereal Spirits live insph
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the other, with him a rout of monst
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Stirs up among the loose unleter'd
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But such a sacred, and home-felt de
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Eld. Bro: Unmuffle ye faint stars,
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2. Bro: What hidden strength, Unles
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2. Bro: O brother, 'tis my father S
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Into swift flight, till I had found
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Comus appears with his rabble. and
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Consists in mutual and partak'n bli
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Sabrina is her name, a Virgin pure,
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To help insnared chastity; Brightes
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Along the crisped shades and bowres
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III So mounting up in ycie-pearled
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Anno Aetatis 19. At a Vacation Exer
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Yet being above them, he shall be b
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For who loves that, must first be w
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Lawrence of vertuous Father vertuou
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Fairfax, whose name in armes throug
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And what he takes in hand shall pro
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Yet know the Lord hath chose Chose
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My soul, O save me for thy goodness
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Fall on his crown with ruine steep.
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And root it deep and fast That it b
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Will grant thy full demand. 11 And
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Whose bounds the sea doth check. 8
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That man is truly blest Who only on
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Will call on thee for aid; For thou
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Surcharg'd my Soul doth lie, 10 My
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Things that on earth were lost or w
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Shall aw the World, and conquer Nat
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That Majesty which through thy Work
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was plac't: Then touches the prime
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And rest can never dwell, hope neve
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Doing or Suffering: but of this be
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Where Joy for ever dwells: Hail hor
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That ore the Realm of impious Pharo
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His righteous Altar, bowing lowly d
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Th' originals of Nature in thir cru
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And to thir foes a laughter; for in
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Warr wearied hath perform'd what Wa
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Insensate, hope conceiving from des
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Her mural breach, returning whence
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Adam by dire example to beware Apos
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Fell with his flaming Legions throu
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In Gods Eternal store, to circumscr
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Op'ning thir various colours, and m
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And bended Dolphins play: part huge
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Consummate lovly smil'd; Aire, Wate
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But not in silence holy kept; the H
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Diurnal) meerly to officiate light
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By Numbers that have name. But this
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And Day is yet not spent; till then
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First Father, call'd by thee I come
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Such as I seek, fit to participate
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Such as I saw her in my dream, ador
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The more she will acknowledge thee
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THE ARGUMENT. Satan having compast
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With darkness, thrice the Equinocti
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And flaming Ministers to watch and
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Thee satiate, to short absence I co
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Fraile is our happiness, if this be
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Her self, though fairest unsupporte
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But as in gaze admiring: Oft he bow
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The vertue of that Fruit, in thee f
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Op'nd and cleerd, and ye shall be a
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Not without Song, each Morning, and
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From his slack hand the Garland wre
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Farr otherwise th' event, not Death
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Our wonted Ornaments now soild and
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And am I now upbraided, as the caus
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All were who heard, dim sadness did
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Whence Adam faultring long, thus an
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Out of the ground wast taken, know
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Deep to the Roots of Hell the gathe
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Mine with this glorious Work, & mad
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Of absolute perfection, therein Man
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Yearly enjoynd, some say, to underg
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With terror through the dark Aereal
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Then cavil the conditions? and thou
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Outstretcht he lay, on the cold gro
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Creature so faire his reconcilement
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Against us this deceit: to crush hi
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approach, goes out to meet him: the
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Happier, had it suffic'd him to hav
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Here let us live, though in fall'n
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Quiet though sad, the respit of tha
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Prosperous or adverse: so shalt tho
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For envie that his Brothers Offerin
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Of rendring up, Michael to him repl
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Single or in Array of Battel rang'd
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Thir order; last the Sire, and his
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Beyond all bounds, till inundation
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THE ARGUMENT. The Angel Michael con
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To whom thus Michael. Justly thou a
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His people from enthralment, they r
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A day entire, and Nights due course
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Upon the Temple it self: at last th
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Salvation shall be Preacht, but to
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Appeer of respiration to the just,
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Homeward returning. High in Front a
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His witness unconfirm'd: on him bap
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Where he might likeliest find this
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What might improve my knowledge or
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Under the covert of some ancient Oa
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Envy they say excites me, thus to g
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About his Altar, handling holy thin
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Of other women, by the birth I bore
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Such object hath the power to soft'
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Though hunger still remain: so it r
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Pontus and Lucrine Bay, and Afric C
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Gideon and Jephtha, and the Shepher
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The Carthaginian pride, young Pompe
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Then glory and benediction, that is
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Would stand between me and thy Fath
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The City gates out powr'd, light ar
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My brethren, as thou call'st them;
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The City which thou seest no other
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Peeling thir Provinces, exhausted a
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To admiration, led by Natures light
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Far worse, her false resemblance on
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Fierce rain with lightning mixt, wa
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Announc't by Gabriel with the first
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True Image of the Father whether th
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Revelation, divides the whole Book
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Sam: A little onward lend thy guidi
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She all in every part; why was the
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To visit or bewail thee, or if bett
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And by thir vices brought to servit
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And such a Son as all Men hail'd me
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Which to have come to pass by means
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On hostile ground, none daring my a
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With answerable pains, but more int
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The Image of thy strength, and migh
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Caus'd what I did? I saw thee mutab
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Yet now am judg'd an enemy. Why the
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Bid go with evil omen and the brand
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Gave to the man despotic power Over
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And black enchantments, some Magici
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And had perform'd it if my known of
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More then the working day thy hands
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I do it freely; venturing to disple
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Chor: That hope would much rejoyce
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For his people of old; what hinders
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Samson should be brought forth to s
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His fierie vertue rouz'd 1690 >From
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& meerly mortall drosse so little i