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She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all heaven And happy constellations on that hour Shed their selectest influence; the earth Gave sign of gratulation, and each hill; Joyous the birds; fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odours from the spicy shrub.

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Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss

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And so sepúlchred in such pomp dost lie, That kings for such a tomb would wish to die.

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Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they only stand By ignorance? Is that their happy state, The proof of their obedience and their faith? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin!

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And live like Nature's bastards, not her sons.

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Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.

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The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew.

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The oracles are dumb, No voice or hideous hum Runs thro' the arched roof in words deceiving.

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Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.

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All hope is lost of my reception into grace; what worse? For where no hope is left, is left no fear.

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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.

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Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss.

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Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.

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Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls his watery labyrinth, which whoso drinks forgets both joy and grief.

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Evil into the mind of god or man may come and go, so unapproved, and leave no spot or blame behind.

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It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit, That woman's love can win, or long inherit; But what it is, hard is to say, Harder to hit.

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How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator?

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Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.

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Next, to make them expert in the usefullest points of grammar; and withal to season them and win them early to the love of virtue and true labour, ere any flattering seducement or vain principle seize them wandering, some easy and delightful book of education would be read to them; whereof the Greeks have store, as Cebes, Plutarch, and other Socratic discourses.

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Death from sin no power can separate.

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