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    So having said, as one from sad dismay

    Recomforted, and after ts disturbd

    Submitting to w seemd remediless,

    to Eve urnd. [ 920 ]

    Bold deed t presumd, adventrous Eve

    And peril great provokt, wh dard

    been onely coveting to Eye

    t sacred Fruit, sacred to abstinence,

    Muco taste it under banne to touch. [ 925 ]

    But past who can recall, or don undoe?

    Not God Omnipotent, nor Fate, yet so

    Per not Die, per

    Is not so asted Fruit,

    Profand first by t, by  [ 930 ]

    Made common and unaste;

    Nor yet on  lives,

    Lives, as t, and gaines to live as Man

    strong

    to us, as likely tasting to attaine [ 935 ]

    Proportional ascent, w be

    But to be Gods, or Angels Demi-gods.

    Nor can I t God, Creator wise,

    tning,  so destroy

    Us ures, dignifid so high, [ 940 ]

    Set over all his orks, which in our Fall,

    For us created, needs  faile,

    Dependent made; so God se,

    Be frustrate, do, undo, and labour loose,

    Not well conceavd of God, whough his Power [ 945 ]

    Creation could repeate, yet h

    Us to abolis the Adversary

    triumpate whom God

    Most Favors, w

    ? [ 950 ]

    Matter of scorne, not to be given the Foe,

    my Lot,

    Certain to undergoe like doom, if Death

    Consort o mee as Life;

    So forcible  I feel [ 955 ]

    ture drao my owne,

    My o t is mine;

    Our State cannot be severd, we are one,

    One Fleso loose to loose my self.