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And now the herald lark Left his ground-nest, high tow'ring to descry The morn's approach, and greet her with his song.

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Let none admire that riches grow in hell; that soil may best deserve the precious bane.

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If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission.

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Each tree Laden with fairest fruit, that hung to th' eye Tempting, stirr'd in me sudden appetite To pluck and eat.

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So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success.

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Who shall silence all the airs and madrigals that whisper softness in chambers?

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Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.

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For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.

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Darkness now rose, as daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night her shadowy offspring.

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But hail thou Goddess sage and holy, Hail, divinest Melancholy, Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue.

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I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend.

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how wearisom Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate. Let us not then pursue By force impossible, by leave obtain'd Unacceptable, though in Heav'n, our state Of splendid vassalage, but rather seek Our own good from our selves, and from our own Live to our selves, though in this vast recess, Free, and to none accountable, preferring Hard liberty before the easie yoke Of servile Pomp

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Enjoy your dear wit and gay rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence.

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That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge.

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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise

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Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find Offering, from the paths of truth remote.

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There is nothing that making men rich and strong but that which they carry inside of them. True wealth is of the heart, not of the hand.

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Good luck befriend thee, Son; for at thy birth The fairy ladies danced upon the hearth.

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Temper justice with mercy.

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Faithful found among the faithless.

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