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I bid not or forbid; do as thou find'ft
Permiffion from above; thou canst not more.

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He added not; and Satan bowing low
His gray diffimulation, disappear'd
Into thin air diffus'd: for now began

Night with her fullen wings to double-shade 500
The defert; fowls in their clay nefts were couch'd;
And now wild beafts came forth the woods to roam.

The end of the First Book.

THE

SECOND BOOK

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PARADISE

REGA I N'D.

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PARADISE

REGAI N'D.

BOOK II.

EAN while the new-baptiz'd, who yet remain'd

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At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen

Him whom they heard fo late exprefly call'd
Jefus Meffiah Son of God declar'd,

And on that high authority had believ'd,

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And with him talk'd, and with him lodg'd, I mean
Andrew and Simon, famous after known,
With others though in holy writ not nam'd,
Now miffing him their joy so lately found,
So lately found, and fo abruptly gone,
Began to doubt, and doubted many days,
And as the days increas'd, increas'd their doubt:
Sometimes they thought he might be only shown,
And for a time caught up to God, as once
Moses was in the mount, and missing long;
And the great Thifbite, who on fiery wheels
Rode up to Heav'n, yet once again to come.
Therefore as those young prophets then with care
Sought

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