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Offended, worth your laughter, hath givn up

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From his Creator, and the more to increase

Your wonder, with an Apple; he thereat

That jealous of thir secrets fiercely opposd

Is enmity, which he will put between

To rule, as over all he should have ruld.

The new created World, which fame in Heavn

Th untractable Abysse, plungd in the womb

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Of my performance: What remains, ye Gods,

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To expedite your glorious march; but I

Little inferiour, by my adventure hard

Both his beloved Man and all his World,

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Without our hazard, labour, or allarme,

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To Sin and Death a prey, and so to us, [ 490 ]

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His Seed, when is not set, shall bruise my head:

Successful beyond hope, to lead ye forth

Mee not, but the brute Serpent in whose shape [ 495 ]