Paradise Lost - Book 9 by John Milton

book 9 of Paradise Lost 2nd edition by John Milton this LibriVox recording is in the public domain recording by Thomas Copeland Paradise Lost book 9 the argument Satan having compass the earth with meditated Kyle returns as a mist by night into paradise enters into the serpent sleeping Adam and Eve in the morning go forth to the Labor's which Eve proposes to divide in several places each laboring apart Adam consents not alleging the danger lest that enemy of whom they will forewarned should attempt her found alone evil oath to be thought not circumspect or firm enough urges are going apart the rather desirous to make trials of 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 II wandering 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 recent 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 pleased with the taste deliberates a while whether to impart their art adam or not at last brings him of the fruit relates what persuaded her to eat thereof 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 the effects there are in them both they seek to cover their nakedness then fall to variance and accusation of one another no more of talk where god or angel guest with man is with his friend familiar used to sit indulgent and with import a Merl we passed permitting him the wild Vimeo discourse unclaimed ty now must change those notes to tragic foul oldest trust and breach disloyal on the part of man revolt and disobedience when the part of heaven now alienated distance and distaste anger and just rebuke and judgment given that brought into this world a world of world sin and her shadow death and misery deaths Harbinger sad task yet argument not less but more heroic than the wrath of stern Achilles and his foe pursued thrice yuge ative about Troy wall her rage of tourists for Lavinia dis espoused or Neptune's ire or jus knows that so long perplexed degree consider iya son if answerable style I can obtain of my celestial patroness who Danes our nightly visitation unemployed and dictates to me slumbering or inspires easy my unpremeditated verse since first this subject for heroic song please me long choosing and beginning late not sedulous by nature to indict wars hitherto the only argument heroic deemed chief Maestri to dissect with long and tedious habit fabled nights in battles feign the better fortitude of patience and heroic martyrdom unsung or to describe races and games or tilting furniture and blazing shields Impreza's quaint comparisons and steeds bases and tinsel trappings gorgeous night seduced and tournament then marshaled feasts served up in hall with sewers and seneschal's the skill of artifice or office mean not that which justly gives heroic name to person or to poem me of these nor skilled nor studious higher argument remains sufficient of itself to raise that unless an age too late no cold climate or years damp my intended wing depressed and much they may you all be mine not hers who brings it nightly to my ear the Sun was sunk and after him the star of Hesperus whose offices to bring twilight upon the earth short arbiter twixt day and night and now from end to end night's hemisphere had failed the horizon round when satan who laid fled before the threats of gabriel out of eden now improved in meditated fraud and malice bent on man's destruction Moga what might happen heavier on itself fearless returned by night he fled and at midnight returned from compass in the earth cautious of day since Uriel regent of the sun described his entrance and forewarned the chair of in that kept a watch thence full of anguish driven the space of seven continued nights he rode with darkness thrice the equinoctial line he circled four times crossed the car of night compelled to pole traversing each kahlúa on the eighth to return and on the coast a verse from entrance orchha Rubik lodge by stealth found unsuspected way there was a place now not though sin not time first brought the change where tiger is at the foot of paradise into a gulf shot underground till part rose up a fountain by the Tree of Life in with the river sunk and with it rose Satan involved in rising mist then software to lie hid see he had searched and land from Eden over pontus and the pool my artists up beyond the river off downward is far and hearty and in length the west from iran teased to the ocean bar to darien thence to the land where flows ganges send Indus thus the or be roamed with narrow search and with inspection deep considered every creature which of all most opportune might serve his wiles and found the serpent Suttles beasts of all the field him after long debate a resolute of thoughts revolved his final sentence chose fit vessel fittest Impa fraud in home to enter and his dark suggestions hide from sharpest sight for in the wily snake whatever slights none would suspicious mark as from his whips and native subtlety proceeding which in other beasts observed doubt might be get of diabolic power active within beyond the sense of brute thus he resolved but first from inward grief is bursting passion and who plates thus poured o earth how like to heaven if not preferred more justly seat worthier of gods is built with second thoughts reforming what was old for what God after better worse would build terrestrial heaven danced round by other heavens that shine yet bear their bright officious lamps light above light for thee aloneness seems in Deccan centering all the precious beams of sacred influence it's God in heaven as Center yet extends to all so thou centering receives from all those arms in thee not in themselves although known virtue appears productive in Erb plant and nobler birth the creatures animate with gradual life of growth sense reason all summed up in man with what enlike could I have walked the round if I could joy in art sweet interchange of Hill and ballet rivers woods and now land now sea and shores with forest ground rocks dens and caves but high and none of these find place of refuge and the more I see pleasures about me so much more I feel torment within me as from the hateful siege of contraries oh good to me becomes bane and in heaven much worse would be my state but neither here seek I know nor in heaven to dwell unless by mastering heaven supreme nor hope to be myself less miserable by what I see but others to make such as I though thereby worse to me redound for only in destroying I find ease to my relentless thoughts and him destroyed or wonder what may work his utter loss for whom all this was made all this will soon follow as to him linked in wheel or world in world and that destruction wide may range to me shall be the glory soul among the infernal powers in one day to have marred what he almighty styled six nights and days continued making and who knows how long before had been contriving though perhaps not longer than since I in one night freed from servitude in glorious well-nigh half angelic name and thinner left the throng of his adores he to be avenged and to repair his numbers thus impaired whether such virtue spent of old now failed more angels to create if they at least are his created or to spite us more determined to advance into our room a creature formed of earth and here man Dow exalted from so base original with heavenly spoils our spoils but he decreed he affected man he made and for him built magnificent this world and earth his seat him Lord pronounced and Oh indignity subjected to his service angel wings and flaming ministers to watch and tend the earthly charge of these the vigilance I dread and to elude thus wrapped in mist of midnight vapor glide obscure and pry in every bush and break where half may find the serpent sleeping and whose Mazie folds to hide me and the dark intent I bring no foul descent that I who erst contended with gods to sit the highest and now constrained into a beast and mixed with bestial slime this essence to incarnate and him brute that do the height of deers he aspired but what will not ambition and revenge descend to who aspires must down as low as high he soared obnoxious first or last two basis things revenge at first though sweet bitter ere long back on itself recoils let it by wreck not so it light well-aimed since higher I fall short on him who next provokes my Envy this new favorite of heaven this man of clay Sun despite who must the more to spite his maker raised from dust spiked then with spite his best repaid so saying through each thicket dank or dry like a black mist lo creeping he held on his midnight search where soonest he might find the serpent him vast sleeping soon found in labyrinths of many around self rolled his head the midst well stored with subtle wiles not yet in horrid shade or dismal den nor no scent yet but on the grassy herb fearless son feared he slept in at his mouth the devil entered and his brutal sense in heart or head possessing soon inspired with act intelligential but his sleep disturbed not waiting close approach of morn now when as sacred light began to dawn in Eden on the human flowers that breathed the morning incense when all things that breathe from the Earth's great altar send up silent praise to the Creator and his nostrils filled with grateful smell forth came the human pair and joined the vocal worship to the choir of creatures wanting voice that done protect the season prime for sweetest sense and airs then commune how that day they best may fly the growing work for much the work outgrew the hands dispatch of to gardening so wide and Eve first to her husband thus began Adam well may we labor still to dress this garden still to tend plant herb and flower our pleasant task and joined but till more hands aid us the work under our labor grows luxurious by restraint what we by date loss overgrown of prune of proper bind one night or two with wanton growth derives tending to wild though therefore no advise or here what to my mind first thoughts present let us divide our labors thou where choice leads thee or where most needs whether to wind the Woodbine round this Armour or direct the clasping IV where to climb while I and yonder spring of roses intermixed with Myrtle find what to redress till noon for while so near each other thus all day our task we choose wonder if so near looks intervene and smiles or object new casual discourse drawn which in term it's our day's work brought too little though begun early and our supper comes unearned to whom mild answer Adam thus returned so leave associate soul to me beyond compare above all living creatures dear well has the motion well they thoughts employed how we might best fulfill the work which here God have assigned us nor of me shall pass ungrazed we're nothing lovelier can be found in woman than to study household good and good works in her husband to promote yet not so strictly half our Lord imposed labor as to debar us when we need refreshment whether food or talk between food of the mine or this sweet intercourse of looks and smiles for smiles from reason flow to brood denied and are of love the food love not the lowest end of human life for not to irksome toil but to delight he made us and delight to reason joint these pads and Bauer's doubt not but our joint hands will keep from wilderness with ease as wide as we need walk till younger hands ere long assist us but if much converse perhaps they satiate to short absence I could yield for solitude sometimes is best society and short retirement urges sweet return but other doubt possesses me lest harm befall thee suffered from me for thou knowest what had been warned us what malicious foe envying our happiness and of his own despairing seeks to work us woe and shame by sly assault and somewhere night hand watches no doubt with greedy hope to find his wish and best advantage as asunder hopeless to circumvent us joined for each to other speedy aid might lend at knee whether his first design be to withdraw our fealty from God or to disturb conjugal love than which perhaps noblesse enjoyed bias excites is anymore or this or worse beef not the faithful side that gave the beam still shades the in protects the wife where danger our dishonor lurks safest and seamless by her husband stays the guard sir or with her the worst indoors to whom the virgin majesty of Eve as one who loves and some unkindness meets with sweet austere composure thus replied offspring of heaven and earth and all Earth's Lord that such an enemy we have who seeks our ruin both by the informed I learn and from the parting angel overheard as in a shady nook I stood behind just then returned at shot of evening flowers but that thou wouldst my firmness therefore doubt to God will be because we have a full by tempted I expected not to hear his violence though fierce not being such as we not capable of death or pain can either not receive open repel his fraud is then I fear which plain in furs they equal fear that my firm faith and love can buy his fraud be shaken or seduced thoughts which how found they harbour in thy breast Adam miss thought of her to these so dear to whom with healing words Adam replied daughter God and man immortal EE for such thou art from sin and blame and tire not diffident of thee do I dissuade thy absence from thy sight but to avoid the tempted self intended by our foe for he who tempts tho in vain at least as purses the tempted with dishonour foul supposed not incorruptible of faith not proof against temptation thou thyself with scorn and anger would present the offered long though ineffectual found miss Deane not then if such a front I labor to avert from thee alone which on us both at once the enemy though bold will hardly dare or daring first on me the soul shall light nor thou his malice and false guile can't m subtle he needs must be who could seduce angels nothing superfluous others aid I from the influence of thy looks receive access in every virtue in thy sight more wise more watchful stronger if need were about would strength while shame thou looking on chained be overcome or reached would at most vigour raised and raised unite wash was not thou like sense within the field when I am present and I trial choose with me best witness of thy virtue tried so spake domestic Adam in his care and matrimonial love but II who thought less attributed to her faith sincere thus her reply with accent sweet renewed if this be our condition thus to dwell in narrow circuit straightened by a foe subtle or violent we not in dude single with like defense were ever met how are we happy still in fear of harm but harm precedes not sin only our foe tempting affronts us with his foul esteem of our integrity his foul esteem sticks no dishonour on our front but turns foul on himself then wherefore shunned or feared by us who rather double on again from his surmise prove false find peace within favor from heaven our witness from the vent and what is faith love virtue unashamed alone without exterior help sustained let us not then suspect our happy state left so imperfect by the maker wise as not secured to single or combined trail as our happiness this be sold and Eden were no Eden thus exposed to him thus Adam fervently replied a woman best are all things as the will of God ordained them his creating hand nothing imperfect at efficient left of all that he created much less man or off that might his happy state secure secure from outward force within himself the danger lies yet lies within his power against his will he can receive no harm but God left free the will for what obeys reason is free and reason he made right but bid her well beware and still erect lest by some fair appearing good surprised she dictate false and misinformed the will to do what God expressly hath forbid not then mistrust but tender love and joins that I should mind the oft and mind ow me firm we subsist yet possible to swerve since reason not impossibly may meet some specious object by the fossa born and fall into deception unaware not keeping strictest watch as she was warned seek not temptation then which to avoid were better and most likely if for me thou sever not trial will come unsolved would Stella prove thy constancy approve first their obedience the other who can know not seeing the attempted who attest but if doubting trial unsought may find us both secure than the sworn now seems go but I stay not free absently more go in thy native innocence rely on what thou hast a virtue some and all for God towards thee hath done his part do the high so spake patriarch of mankind but Eve persisted yet submiss the last replied with thy permission then and thus forewarned chiefly by what they own last reasoning words touched on thee that our trial when least sought may find us both perhaps far less prepared the willing er I go no much expect a folk so proud will first the weaker seek so been the more shall shame in his repulse thus saying from her husband's hand her han saw she withdrew and like a wood nymph light Oread or Dryad or of Delia's train they took her to the Groves Bob Delius elfin gate surpassed and goddess-like deport though not as she with bow and quiver armed but with such gardening tools as art yet rude guiltless of fire had formed or angels brought to Paley's or Pomona thus adorned like as she seemed Pomona when she fled vertumnus bought a series in her prime yet virgin of prasarita from joel earned long with ardent look as I pursued delighted but desiring more hast a off T to her his charge of quick return repeated she to him as oft engaged to be returned by noon amid the bower and all things in best order to invite noon tiger past or afternoons repose o much deceived much failing hapless e of that presumed return event perverse thou never from that hour in paradise found either sweeter past or sound repose such ambush hid among sweet flowers and shades waited with hellish rank or imminent to intercept thy way or send thee back to spoiled of innocence of faith of bliss for now first break of dawn the fiend mere serpent and appearance forth was come and on his quest where likeliest he might find the only two of mankind but in them the whole included race his purpose pray in Bower and field he sought for any tuft of Grove or garden plot more pleasant lay attendance or plantation for delight by fountain or by shady rivulet he sought them both but wished his half might find Eve separate he wished but not with hope of what so seldom chaste went to his wish beyond his hope he separate he spies veiled in a cloud of fragrance where she stood half spied so thick the Roses bushing round about her glowed oft stooping to support each flower of slender stalk whose head though gay carnation her pleasure or spectral gold hundra ping unsustained then she up stays gently with myrtle band mindless the while herself though fairest unsupported flower from her best prop so far and storm so nigh nearer he drew and many a walk traversed of stateliest covered cedar ina palm then voluble in bold now hid now seen among thick woven are barrettes and flowers in bordered on each bank the hand he spoke more delicious than those gardens feigned or of revived Adonis or renowned our canoes hosts of all their tea Sun for that not mystic where the sapient King held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse much she the place admired the person more as one who long in populous city pent warehouses they consumers annoy the air forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe among the pleasant villages and farms are joined from each thing met conceives delight the smell of grain or ted-ed grass of kine or dairy each rural site each rural song if chance with nymph likes depth their virgin pass what pleasing seemed for her now pleases more she most and in her look sums all denied such pleasure took the serpent to behold this flower at lat the sweet recess of Eve thus early thus alone her heavenly form angelic but more soft and feminine her graceful innocence her every air of gesture released action over art his malice and with rappin sweet bereaved his fierceness of the fierce intent it brought that space the evil one abstracted stood from his own evil and for the time remains stupidly good of enmity disarmed of guile of ate of envy of revenge but the hot hell that always in him burns though in Midheaven soon ended his delight and tortures him now more the more he sees of pleasure not for him ordained then soon fierce eighty recollects and all his thoughts of mischief graduating thus excites thoughts whither have you led me with what sweet compulsion thus transported to forget what either brought us hate not love nor hope of paradise for he'll appear to taste of pleasure but all pleasure to destroy say what is in destroying other joy to me is lost then let me not let pass occasion which now smiles behold alone the woman opportune to all attempts her husband for a view far round not now I whose higher intellectual more I shun and strength of courage hearty and a limb heroic built though of terrestrial mould foe not in formidable exempt from wound I not so much have held a base and pain enfeebled me to what I was in heaven she fare divinely fare fit love for God's not terrible though Tara be in love and beauty not approached by stronger hate a stronger under show of love well famed the way which to her ruin now I tend so spake the enemy of mankind enclosed in serpent inmate bed and tour diva dressed his way not with indented wave prone on the ground a since but on his rear circular base of rising folds the towered fold above fold a surging maze his head crested aloft and carbuncle his eyes with burnished neck of burdened gold erect amidst his circling spires that on the grass floated redundant pleasing was his shape and lovely never since of serpent kind lovelier not those that in Illyria changed Hermione and Cadmus or the God in Epidaurus nor to which transformed ammonium Jo or capital line was seen he with Olympius this with her who bore Scipio the height of Rome with tract oblique at first as one who sought access but feared to interrupt side long he works his way as when a ship by skillful steersman wrought nigh river's mouth or foreland where the wind veers off as oft so steers and shifts of sail so varied he and of his tortuous train curled many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve to lure her I she busied heard the sound of rustling leaves but minded not as used to such to sport before hearth of the field from every beast more duteous at her call than at cirsium called the heard disguised he bolder now uncalled before stood but as in gaze admiring oft he bowed his turret kress and sleek enameled neck fawning and licked the ground whereon she trod his gentle dumb expression turned at length the eye of Eve to mark his play he glad of her attention gained with serpent tongue organic or impulsive vocal air his fraudulent temptation thus began wonder not sovereign mistress if perhaps thou canst or so wonder much less on thy looks the heaven of mildness with disdain displeased that I approached it us and gaze since a either single nor have feared thy awful brow more awful thus retired fairest resemblance that thy maker fair thee all things living gaze on all things dined by gift and thy celestial beauty a door with ravishment beheld their best beheld were universally admired but here in this enclosure while these beasts saman beholders rude and shallow to discern half what india's fair one man accept who sees thee and what is one who should be seen a goddess among God's adored and served by angels numberless by JD trained so closed the tempter and his proem tune into the heart of Eve his words made way though at the voice much marveling at length not an amazed she thus in answer spake what made this mean language of man pronounced by tongue of brute and human sense expressed the first at least of these I thought denied to beasts from God on the creation day created mute to all articulate sound the latter I de mer pour in there looks much reason and interactions after peers these serpent subtle based of all the field I knew but not with human voice and dude we double then this miracle and say how cam'st thou speak above mute and how to me so friendly grown above the rest of brutal kind that daily our insight say for such wonder claims attention due to whom the guileful tempter thus replied Empress of this fair world resplendent he easy to me it is to tell thee all what thou commands and write thou should be obeyed I was at first as other beasts that graze the trottin herb of abject thoughts and low as was my food naught but food discern for sex and apprehended nothing high till on a day robing the field i chanced a goodly tree for distant to behold Loden with fruit of fairest colors mixed ruddy and gold i nearer drew to gaze when from the boughs a savory odor blown grateful to appetite more pleased my sense than smell of sweetest fennel but the teats of you or goat dropping with milk it eaten and sucked of LaMacchia the tender play to satisfy the sharp desire ahead of tasting those two apples I resolved not to defer hunger and thirst at once powerful persuaders quickened at the scent of that alluring fruit urged me so keen about the mossy trunk I won't be soon for high from ground the branches would require thy at post reach or Adam's round the tree all other beasts that saw with like desire longing and envying stood but could not reach amid the tree now got where plenty hung tempting so nigh to pluck and eat my fill I spared not for such pleasure to that hour at feed or fountain never had I found sated Leng ere long I might perceive strange alteration in me too degree of reason in my inward powers and speech wanted not long though to this shape retained thence forth to speculations high or deep I turned by thoughts and with capacious mind considered all things visible in heaven or earth or middle all things fair and good but all that fair and good in thy divine semblance and in thy beauty's heavenly ray United I beheld no fair to thine equivalent or second which compelled me thus though importune perhaps to come and gains and worship thee of right declared sovereign of creatures Universal Dame so taught the spirited slice snake and Eve yet more amazed unwary thus replied serpent I overpraising leaves in doubt the virtue of that fruit in D verse proved but say where grows the tree from hence how far for many of the trees of God that grow in Paradise and various yet unknown to us in such abundance lies our choice as leaves a greater store fruit untouched still hanging incorruptible to men grow up to their provision and more hands helped to dis burt nature of a birth to whom the wily adder blithe and glad empress the way is ready and not long beyond a row of myrtles on a flat fast by a fountain one small thicket passed of blowing myrrh and balm if thou accept my conduct I can bring me thither soon lead them said he he leading swiftly rolled in tangles and made intricate seams straight to mischief Swift Pope elevates and joy brightens is pressed as when a wandering fire compact of unctuous vapor which the night condenses and the cold environs round kindled through agitation to a flame which oft they say some evil spirit tens hovering and blazing with delusive light misleads the mazed night wanderer from his way to Bob's and Meyers and oft through pond of pool there swallowed up and lost them suffer far so blistered the dire snake and into fraud led Eve our credulous mother to the tree of prohibition root of all our world which when she saw lust were died she spake serpent we might have spared our coming hither fruitless to me though fruit be here to access the credit of whose virtue rest with thee wondrous indeed if cause of such events but of this tree we may not taste nor touch God so commanded and left that command sole daughter of his voice the rest we live law to ourselves our reason is our law to whom the tempter guileful a reply indeed earth God then said that of the fruit of all these garden trees you shall not eat yet lords declared of all in Earth or air to whom thus Eve yet sinless of the fruit of each tree in the garden we made but of the fruit of this fair tree amidst the garden God hath said ye shall not eat thereof nor shall ye touch it lest he die she scarce had said - they'll breed by now more bold the tempter but with short Sealand love to man and indignation that is wrong new part words are and as to passion moved fluctuates disturbed yet comely and in act raised as of some great matter to begin as one of old some orator renowned in Athens or free roam where eloquent flourish since mute to some great cars address stood in himself collected while each part motion each act one audience air the top sometimes in height began as no delay of preface Brooking through his zeal of right so standing moving and a height of grown the tempter all impassioned us began o sacred wise and wisdom giving plant mother of science now I feel thy power within me clear not only to discern things in their causes but to trace the ways of highest agents deemed however wise queen of this universe do not believe those rigid threats of death ye shall not die how should ye by the fruit it gives you life to knowledge by the threatener look at me me who have touched and tasted yet both live and life more perfect have attained than fate meant me by venturing higher than my lot shall that be shut to man which to the Beast is open or will God incense his ire for such a petty trespass and not praise rather your dauntless virtue whom the pain of death denounce whatever thing death be deterred not from achieving what might lead to a happier life knowledge of good and evil of good how just of evil if what is evil be real why not known since easier shun God therefore cannot hurt you and be just not just not God not feared then nor obeyed no fear itself of death removes the fear why then was this forbid why but to all why but to keep you low and ignorant his worshippers he knows that in the day ye eat thereof your eyes that seem so clear yet of a dim shall perfectly be then opened and cleared and ye shall be as God's knowing both good and evil as they know that he should be as God since eyes man internal man is the proportion meat I a brute human ye of human so we shall die perhaps by putting off human to put on God's death to be wished though threatened which no worse than this can drink and what are God's that man may not become as they participating God like food the gods are first and that advantage use on our belief that all from them proceeds I question it for this fair earth I see warmed by the Sun producing every kind they're nothing if they all things who enclosed knowledge of good and evil in this tree that whoso eats there are forthwith attains wisdom without their leave and wherein lies the fence that man should thus attain to know what can your knowledge hurt him or this tree in part against his will if all be here or is it envy and can envy dwell in heavenly breasts these these and many more causes import your need of this fair fruit goddess Humane reach them and freely taste he ended and his words replete with guile into her heart to easy entrance one fixed on the fruit she gazed which to behold my tempt alone and in her ears the sound yet rung of his persuasive words in craned with reason to her seeming and with truth meanwhile the hour of noon you on and waked an eager appetite raised by the smell so savory of that fruit which with desire and cly novel now grown to touch or taste solicited her longing i yet first pausing awhile thus to herself she mused greater thy virtues doubtless best of truth still kept from man and worthy to be admired whose tastes too long for born at first to say gave elocution to the mute and taught the tongue not made for speech to speak thy praise thy praise he also who forbids the use conceals not from us naming Li the tree of knowledge knowledge book of good and evil forbids us then to taste but his forbidding commends the more while it in verse the good by the communicated and our want for good unknown sure is not had or had and yet unknown is has not had at all in plane then what forbids he but to know forbids us good forbids us to be wise such prohibitions bind not but if death binds us with after bans what profits then our inward freedom in the day we eat of this fair fruit our doom a as we shall die how does the serpent he had eaten lives and knows and speaks and reasons and discerns irrational to them for us alone was death invented or to us denied this intellectual food for beasts reserved capice it seems yet that one beast which first hath tasted envies not but brings with joy the good befall him author unsuspectedly to man far from deceit or guile what fear I then rather what know to fear under this ignorance of good and evil of God or death of law or penalty here grows the Cure of all this fruit divine fair to the eye inviting to the taste of virtue to make wise but hinders then to reach and feed at once both body and mind so saying a rash hand in evil our forth reaching to the fruit she plucked she at earth felt the wound nature from her seat sighing through all her works gave signs of world but all was lost back to the thicket slug the guilty serpent and well might for Eve intent now wholly on her taste nor else regarded such delight till then a seemed in truth she never tasted whether true or fancied soul who expectation high at knowledge nor was Godhead from her thought greedily she and gorged without restraint and knew not eating death satiate at length and heightened thus with wine jocund and boon thus to herself she pleasingly began sovereign virtuous precious of all trees in paradise of operation blessed to sapiens neither too obscured in famed and thy fair fruit let hang as to no end created but ends forth my early care not without song each morning and you praise shall 10d and the Fertile burden ease of that full branches offered free to all til dieted by thee I grow mature in knowledge as the gods who all things know though others envy what they cannot in for had the gift been theirs it had not here thus grown experience next to the ayob best guide not following thee I had remained in ignorance thou opens wisdoms way and gives to excess though secret she retire and I perhaps have secret heaven as high high and remote to see from them stew stink each thing on earth and other care perhaps may have diverted from continual watch our great for bidder safe with all his spies about him but to Adam in what sort shall I appear shall i to him make known as yet might change and give him to protect full happiness with me or rather not but keep the odds of knowledge in my power without co-partner so to add what wants in female sex the more to draw his love and render me more equal and perhaps a thing not undesirable sometimes superior for inferior who is free this may be well but what if God have seen and death in soon then I shall be no more and Adam wedded to another he shall live with her enjoying I extinct but death to think confirmed then I resolved adam shall share with me in bliss or wall so dear i love him that with him all deaths i could endure without him live no life so saying from the tree her step she turned but first low reverence done as to the power that dwelt within whose presence had infused into the plant scientia sap derived from nectar drink of thoughts adam the while waiting desirous of return and world of choicest flowers a garland to adorn a tresses and her rural Labor's crown as reapers after one their harvest Queen Greyjoy he promised to his thoughts and new solace in her return so long delayed yet off his heart divine of something LLL miss gave him he the faltering measure felt and forth to meet her when the way she took that morn when first they parted by the tree of knowledge he must pass there he are met scarce from the tree returning in her hand a bow of fairest fruit the downy smiled new gathered and ambrosia all smell diffused to him she hasted in her face excuse came prologue and apology to prompt which with bland words at will she dusted rest hast thou not wondered at him at my stay the I have missed and thought it long deprived thy presence agony of love till now not felt nor shall be twice or never more mean I to try what rash untried I sought the pain of absence from thy sight but strange have been the cause and wonderful to hear this tree is not as we are told a tree of danger tasted nor to evil unknown opening the way but of divine effect to open eyes and make them gods who taste and hath been tasted such the serpent wise or not restrained as we are not obeying hath eaten of the fruit and has become not dead as we are threatened but thence forth endued with human voice and human sense reasoning to admiration and with me persuasively had so prevailed that I have also tasted and have also found the effects to porous balm opener my knives D immersed dilated spirits antler heart and growing up to Godhead which for thee chiefly I sought without Deacon despised for bliss as thou has part to me is bliss tedious unshared with thee and odious soon now therefore also taste the equal lot may join us equal joy as equal love lest thou not tasting different degree dis join us and I then too late renounce deity for thee when fate will not permit thus Eve would countenance Bly their story told bought in her cheek distemper flushing load and other side Adam soon as he heard the fatal trespass done by Eve amazed the Stone Age stood in blank while horror chill ran through his veins and all his joints relaxed from his slack hand the garland wreath for Eve down dropped and all that faded roses shed speechless he stood and pale till thus at length first to himself he inward silence broke no fairest of creation last and best of all God's works creature in whom excelled whatever can decide or thought deformed holy divine good Amy implore sweet bow are thou lost how on a sudden lost to face deflowered and doubted death devote rather how has though you did to transgress the strict forbiddance how to violate the sacred fruit forbidden some Khurshid fraud of enemy hath beguiled the yet unknown and me with the Heather ruined poor with thee certain my resolution is to die how can I live without thee I'll forego thy sweet converse and love so dearly joined to live again in these wild woods forlorn should God create another Eve and I another river Ford yet loss of thee would never from my art no no I feel the link of nature draw me flesh of flesh bone of my bone the heart and from thy state mind never shall be part it bliss of woe so having said as one from sad dismay recovered it and afterthought disturbed submitting to what seemed limitless thus in calm mood his words to Eva turn boldi thou hast presumed that vent receive and peril great calves oKed who thus has dared had it been only coveting to I that sacred fruit sacred to abstinence much more to taste it under band touch but past who can recall or darn undo not God omnipotent nor fate yet so perhaps thou shalt not die perhaps the fact is not so heinous now for tasted through profane first by the serpent by him first made common and unhallowed there our taste though yet on him found deadly he yet lives lives as though sets and games to live as man higher degree of life the inducements strong to us as lightly tasting to attain proportional assent which cannot be but to be gods or angels demagogues nor can I think that God creator wise though threatening will in earnest so destroy us his prime creatures dignified so high set over all his works which in our fall for us created needs with us must fail dependent made so God shall uncreate he frustrate do undo and labor lose not well conceived of God who know his power creation could repeat yet would be low-class to abolish blessed the adversary triumph and say fickle there stay tuned God most favors who can please him long me first II ruin now mankind whom will he next matter score not to be given the foe however I Whitney have fixed my lot certain to undergo like doom if death can sort with thee death is to me as life so forcible within my heart I feel the bond of nature draw me to my own my own indeed but what thou art his mind our state cannot be severed we are one one flesh to lose thee were to lose myself so atom and thus Eve to him replied o glorious trial of exceeding love illustrious evidence example high engaging me to emulate but short of thy perfection how shall I obtain atom from whose dear side I boast me sprung and gladly of our union hear thee speak one heart one soul in both we're all good proof this day of Falls declaring the result rather than death or often death more dread shall separate us linked in love so dear to undergo with me one guilt one prime if any be of tasting this fair fruit whose virtue or the good still good proceeds direct or by occasion have presented this happy trial of that love which else so eminently never had been known worried I thought death Menace would ensue this my attempt I would sustained among the worst and not persuade thee rather die deserted than oblige D with the fact pernicious to thy peace chiefly assured remarkably so late of thy so true so faithful love unequaled but I feel far otherwise the event not death but life augmented opened eyes New Hope's new joys taste so divine that what of sweet before had touched my sense flat seems to this and harsh on my experience Adam freely taste and fear of death deliver to the wins so saying she embraced him and for joy tenderly wept much one that he has loved and so in noble Daz of choice to incur divine displeasure for her sake or death in recompense for such compliance bad such recompense best merits from the bow she gave him of that fair enticing fruit with liberal hand he scrupled not to eat against his better knowledge not deceived but fondly overcome with female charm earth trembled from her entrails says again in pangs and nature gave a second grown sky lowered and muttering Thunder some sad drops wept at completing the mortal sin original while Adam took no thought eating his fill nor Eve to iterate her former trespass beard the more to soothe him with her loved society that now is with new wine intoxicated both they swim in mirth and fancy that they feel divinity within them breeding wings where it disscourn the earth but that false fruit for other operation first displayed carnal desire in flaming he on Eve began to cast the Sevilla sighs she him as wanton they repaid in lust they burn till Adam musk and Eve to dalliance move he now I see thou art exact of taste and elegant o sapiens no small part since to each meaning savor we apply and palate cold judicious I the praise yield thee so well this data has to pervade much pleasure we have lost why we abstained from this delightful fruit nor known till now true relish tasting if such pleasure be in things to us forbidden might be wished for this one tree had been forbidden ten but calm so well refreshed now let us play as meat is after such delicious fare but never to die beauty since the day I saw the first and wedded he adorned with all perfections so inflamed my sense with order to enjoy thee fair and now than ever bounty at this virtuous tree so said he and for born odd glance or toy of amorous intent well understood of Eve whose I darted contagious fire her hand he seized and to a shady Bank thick overhead with verdant roof embowered he led her nothing loath flowers with a couch pansies and violence and asphodel and hyacinth Earth's freshest softest lap there they their fill of love and loves to sport talk largely but their mutual guilt the seal the solace of their sin till do we sleep or press them we read with their amorous play soon as the force of that fallacious group that with exhilarating vapor bland about the spirits had played and in most powers made her was now exhaled and gross her sleep bread of unkindly fumes with conscious dreams encumbered now had left them up there rose as from unrest and each the other viewing soon found their eyes how opened and their minds darkened innocence that as a veil had shattered them from knowing ill was gone just confidence and native righteousness and honour from about them naked left to guilty shame he covered but his robe uncovered more so Rose the denied strong Hercule Ian Sampson from the hard earth lap of Philistine Dalida and waked Shaun his strength they destitute and bare of all their virtually silent and in face confounded long they saved a struck a mute till atom though not less than Eva bashed at length gave utterance to these words constrained Oh in evil are thou didst give ear to that false worm of whomsoever taught to counterfeit man's voice true in our fall false in our promised rising since our eyes opened we find indeed and find we know both good and evil good lost and evil got bad fruit of knowledge if this be to know which leaves us naked thus of Honor void of innocence of faith of purity our wanted ornaments now soiled and stained and in our faces evident the signs of bulb and killer suits Prince evil stole even shame the last of Evil's of the first they sure then how shall I behold the face henceforth of God or angel burst with joy and rapture so oft beheld those heavenly shapes will dazzle now this earthly but their blaze insufferably bright Oh might I hear in solitude live savage in some glade obscure were highest woods impenetrable to star our Sun light spread their umbrage broad and Brown as evening cover me you pine Zee Cedars with innumerable bowels hide me where I may never see them more but let us now is in bad plight devise what best may for the present serve to hide the parts of each from other that seem most to shame obnoxious and unseemly esteem some tree whose broad smooth leaves together sewed and girded on our loins make of around those middle parts that this newcomer shame there sit not and reproach us as unclean so counsel he and both together went into the thickest wood there soon they chose the fig tree not that kind for fruit renowned but such as at this day to Indians known in Malabar or Deccan spreads her arms branching so broad and long that in the ground the Benton twigs take root and daughters go about the mother tree a pillared shade I over arched and echoing walks between there off the Indian herdsmen shunning heat shelters in cool and tends his pastoring herds at loopholes cut to thickest shade those leaves they gathered broad as amazonian torch and with what skill they had together sold to gird their waste rain covering if to hide their guilt and dreaded shame o how unlike to that first naked glory such of late Columbus found the marathon so Gert with feathered cincture naked else and wild among the trees on isles and woody shores thus fenced and as they thought the shame in part covered but not at rest or ease of mind they set them down to weep their only tears rained at their eyes but high winds worse within began to rise high passions anger hate mistrust suspicion discord and shipped saw their inward state of mind calm region once and full of peace now tossed and turbulent for understanding ruled not and the will heard not her law both in subjection now to sensual appetite who from beneath usurping over sovereign reason claimed superior sway from thus distemper'd breasts Adam estranged in look and altered style speech intermitted thus to ev'ry new would thou hadst hearken to my words and stayed with me as I besought thee when that strange desire of wandering this unhappy morn I know not whence possessed thee we had then remained still happy not as now too spoiled of all our good shamed naked miserable let none henceforth see needless cause to approve the faith they Oh when earnestly they seek such proof conclude they then begin to fail to whom soon moved with touch of blame the see what words of past thy lips Adam severe imputes thou that to my default or will of wandering as thou call'st stood which who knows but might as ill have happened thou being by or to thyself perhaps hadst thou been there or here the ten that was not a discerned fraud in the serpent speaking as he spake no ground of enmity between us known by he should mean me ill or seek to harm was I to have never parted from my side as good have gone there still a lifeless rib being as I am why didst not thou the head command me absolutely not to go going into such danger as thou aged too facile there now dudes not much gain say natives permit approve and fare dismiss had Stubb in firm and fixed to my descent neither had I transgressed know thou with me tomb then first incensed Adam replied is this the love is this the recompense of mind to be in great believe expressed immutable when dawat lost not I who might have lived enjoyed immortal bliss yet willingly chose rather death with thee and am I now upgraded as the cause of die transgressing not enough severe it seems in I restraint what could I'm more I warned the I admonish thee foretold the danger and the lurking enemy that lay in wait beyond this had been force and force upon free will hath here no place but calm evidence then bore thee on secure either to meet no danger or to find matter of glorious trial and perhaps I also earned in open much admiring what seemed in he's so perfect that I thought no evil der stadt empty but I Rou that error now which has become my crime and now the queues er thus that shall befall him who to worth in women over trusting lets her will rule restraint she will not book and left to herself if he will then since sushi first his weak indulgence will accuse thus they in mutual accusations spent the fruitless hours but neither self-condemning and of the vain contest appeared no end notes learn 186 not nor 1674 fine 213 here bear 1674 line 394 likest likeliest 1674 by 9:20 to past path 1674 the end of the ninth book recording by Thomas coke

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Published: Thu Feb 21 2019