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Fair silver-buskind Nymphs as great and good, I know this quest of yours, and free intent Was all in honour and devotion ment To the great Mistres of yon princely shrine, Whom with low reverence I adore as mine, And with all helpful service will comply To further this nights glad solemnity; And lead ye where ye may more neer behold 40 What shallow-searching Fame hath left untold; Which I full oft amidst these shades alone Have sate to wonder at, and gaze upon: For know by lot from Jove I am the powr Of this fair wood, and live in Oak'n bowr, To nurse the Saplings tall, and curl the grove With Ringlets quaint, and wanton windings wove. And all my Plants I save from nightly ill, Of noisom winds, and blasting vapours chill. And from the Boughs brush off the evil dew, 50 And heal the harms of thwarting thunder blew, Or what the cross dire-looking Planet smites, Or hurtfull Worm with canker'd venom bites. When Eev'ning gray doth rise, I fetch my round Over the mount, and all this hallow'd ground, And early ere the odorous breath of morn Awakes the slumbring leaves, or tasseld horn Shakes the high thicket, haste I all about, Number my ranks, and visit every sprout With puissant words, and murmurs made to bless, 60 But els in deep of night when drowsines Hath lockt up mortal sense, then listen I To the celestial Sirens harmony, That sit upon the nine enfolded Sphears, And sing to those that hold the vital shears, And turn the Adamantine spindle round, On which the fate of gods and men is wound. Such sweet compulsion doth in musick ly, To lull the daughters of Necessity, And keep unsteddy Nature to her law, 70 And the low world in measur'd motion draw After the heavenly tune, which none can hear Of human mould with grosse unpurged ear; And yet such musick worthiest were to blaze The peerles height of her immortal praise, Whose lustre leads us, and for her most fit, If my inferior hand or voice could hit Inimitable sounds, yet as we go,
What ere the skill of lesser gods can show, I will assay, her worth to celebrate, 80 And so attend ye toward her glittering state; Where ye may all that are of noble stemm Approach, and kiss her sacred vestures hemm. 2. SONG. O're the smooth enameld green Where no print of step hath been, Follow me as I sing, And touch the warbled string. Under the shady roof Of branching Elm Star-proof, Follow me, 90 I will bring you where she sits Clad in splendor as befits Her deity. Such a rural Queen All Arcadia hath not seen. 3. SONG. Nymphs and Shepherds dance no more By sandy Ladons Lillied banks. On old Lycaeus or Cyllene hoar, Trip no more in twilight ranks, Though Erynanth your loss deplore, 100 A better soyl shall give ye thanks. >From the stony Maenalus, Bring your Flocks, and live with us, Here ye shall have greater grace, To serve the Lady of this place. Though Syrinx your Pans Mistres were, Yet Syrinx well might wait on her. Such a rural Queen All Arcadia hath not seen. Note: 22 hunderd] Milton's own spelling here is hundred. But in the Errata to Paradise Lost (i. 760) he corrects hundred to hunderd. Transcriber's note: Facsimile of Title page of Lycidas follows:
Page 1 and 2: H. Beeching
Page 3 and 4: alass and hudling. Indeed the spell
Page 5 and 6: defensible, but I have retained it
Page 7 and 8: On the other hand, in the passage (
Page 9 and 10: Transcriber's note: Facsimile of Ti
Page 11 and 12: THE STATIONER TO THE READER. It is
Page 13 and 14: The Hymn. I IT was the Winter wilde
Page 15 and 16: IX When such Musick sweet Their hea
Page 17 and 18: While the red fire, and smouldring
Page 19 and 20: Which on our dearest Lord did sease
Page 21 and 22: With Truth, and Peace, and Love sha
Page 23 and 24: Added to her noble birth, More then
Page 25 and 26: WHAT needs my Shakespear for his ho
Page 27 and 28: L'ALLEGRO. HENCE loathed Melancholy
Page 29 and 30: And then in haste her Bowre she lea
Page 31 and 32: Black, but such as in esteem, Princ
Page 33 and 34: Or call up him that left half told
Page 35 and 36: Donna leggiadra il cui bel nome hon
Page 37 and 38: De pensieri leggiadro, accorto, e b
Page 39: Part of an entertainment presented
Page 43 and 44: That from beneath the seat of Jove
Page 45 and 46: Next Camus, reverend Sire, went foo
Page 47 and 48: And now was dropt into the Western
Page 49 and 50: Since your going, you have charg'd
Page 51 and 52: Of bright aereal Spirits live insph
Page 53 and 54: the other, with him a rout of monst
Page 55 and 56: Stirs up among the loose unleter'd
Page 57 and 58: But such a sacred, and home-felt de
Page 59 and 60: Eld. Bro: Unmuffle ye faint stars,
Page 61 and 62: 2. Bro: What hidden strength, Unles
Page 63 and 64: 2. Bro: O brother, 'tis my father S
Page 65 and 66: Into swift flight, till I had found
Page 67 and 68: Comus appears with his rabble. and
Page 69 and 70: Consists in mutual and partak'n bli
Page 71 and 72: Sabrina is her name, a Virgin pure,
Page 73 and 74: To help insnared chastity; Brightes
Page 75 and 76: Along the crisped shades and bowres
Page 77 and 78: III So mounting up in ycie-pearled
Page 79 and 80: Anno Aetatis 19. At a Vacation Exer
Page 81 and 82: Yet being above them, he shall be b
Page 83 and 84: For who loves that, must first be w
Page 85 and 86: Lawrence of vertuous Father vertuou
Page 87 and 88: Fairfax, whose name in armes throug
Page 89 and 90: 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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In loss it self; which on his count
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With all his Peers: attention held
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Anon out of the earth a Fabrick hug
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door Expos'd a Matron 1674. 530 fai
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The Prison of his Tyranny who Reign
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Devoid of sense and motion? and who
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Forc't Halleluiah's; while he Lordl
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Inflicted? and what peace can we re
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Satan, whom now transcendent glory
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Heard farr and wide, and all the ho
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Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards
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Strange horror seise thee, and pang
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These yelling Monsters that with ce
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With Horse and Chariots rankt in lo
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Possesses lately, thither to arrive
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THE ARGUMENT. God sitting on his Th
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About him all the Sanctities of Hea
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Fall circumvented thus by fraud, th
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Life in my self for ever, by thee I
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And after all thir tribulations lon
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Though distant farr som small refle
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Who after came from Earth, sayling
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Of colour glorious and effect so ra
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Had in remembrance alwayes with del
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Far off and fearless, nor with caus
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Of us out-cast, exil'd, his new del
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To them who liv'd; nor on the vertu
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In naked Majestie seemd Lords of al
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To entertain you two, her widest Ga
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Multitudes like thy self, and thenc
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More of th' Almighties works, and c
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This glorious sight, when sleep hat
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Haile wedded Love, mysterious Law,
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To him who sent us, whose charge is
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Through wayes of danger by himself
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BOOK V. THE ARGUMENT. Morning appro
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Forbidd'n here, it seems, as onely
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Angels, for yee behold him, and wit
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Through all th' Empyreal road; till
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She crushes, inoffensive moust, and
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Of real hunger, and concoctive heat
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Our voluntarie service he requires,
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Of Planets and of fixt in all her W
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Among the sons of Morn, what multit
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The current of his fury thus oppos'
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His Loyaltie he kept, his Love, his
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Fearless assault, and to the brow o
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All are not of thy Train; there be
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Of Battel, open when, and when to c
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All his right side; then Satan firs
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Not to be overpowerd, Companions de
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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
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