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But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.

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Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.

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I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

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But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

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The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

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So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th' outward shape.

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Midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.

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So much I feel my genial spirits droop, My hopes all flat, nature within me seems In her functions weary of herself.

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Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.

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And feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce.

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Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational.

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Fairy damsels met in forest wide / By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, / Lancelot or Pelleas, or Pellenore.

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For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.

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Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.

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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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First Moloch, horrid king, besmirched in blood, Of Human sacrifice, and parent's tears, Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their childrens' cries unheard, that passed through fire, To his grim idol.

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Smiles from reason flow, To brute deny'd, and are of love the food.

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He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.

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And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

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And some are fall'n, to disobedience fall'n, And so from Heav'n to deepest Hell; O fall From what high state of bliss into what woe!

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