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BOOK X.

Mean while the hainous and defpiteful act

Of Satan, done in Paradife, and how
He in the ferpent had perverted Eve,
Her husband fhe, to taste the fatal fruit,
Was known in Heav'n: for what can 'fcape
the eye

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Of God all feeing, or deceive his heart.
Omnifcient? Who in all things wife and juft,
Hinder'd not Satan, to attempt the mind
Of man, with strength entire, and free-will
arm'd,

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Complete to have difcover'd and repuls'd
Whatever whiles of foe or feeming friend:
For still they knew, and ought t' have still re-
member'd,

The high injunction, not to taste that fruit,
Whoever tempted: which day not obeying,
Incurr'd, what could they lefs? the pe-

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