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And s your harmless innocenceMelt, as I doe, yet public reason just,
h revenge enlargd, [ 390 ]
By conquering this new orld, compels me now
to do hough damnd I should abhorre.
So spake tie,
tyrants plea, excusd his devilish deeds.
tie stand on t ree [ 395 ]
Doful herd
Of ted kindes, himself now one,
No his end
Neerer to view his prey, and unespid
to mark ate learn [ 400 ]
By ion markt: about them round
A Lion noh fierie glare,
tyger, wh spid
In some Purlieu tle Fa play,
Strait couc [ 405 ]
ch, as one who chose his ground
surest seize th
Gript in eac of men
to first of hus moving speech,
turnd o terance flow. [ 410 ]
Sole partner and sole part of all these joyes,
Dearer t the Power
t made us, and for us this ample orld
Be infinitly good, and of his good
As liberal and free as infinite, [ 415 ]
t raisd us from t and plact us here
In all t his hand
ed, nor can performe
Augh need, hee who requires
From us no oto keep [ 420 ]
trees
In Paradise t bear delicious fruit
So various, not to taste t onely tree
Of knoed by tree of Life,
So neer groo Life, h is, [ 425 ]
Som dreadful t; for
God it deato taste t tree,
t
Among so many signes of power and rule
Conferrd upon us, and Dominion givn [ 430 ]
Over all otures t possess
Eart us not think hard
One easie proion, who enjoy
Free leave so large to all things else, and choice
Unlimited of manifold delights: [ 435 ]
But let us ever praise oll
ie, following our deligask
to prune ts, and tend these Flours,
toilsom, yet .