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BOOK X.

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Mean while the hainons and despiteful act
Of Satan, done in Paradise, and how
He in the serpent had perverted Eve,
Her husband lhe, to taste the fatal, fruit,
Was known in Heav'n: for what can ’scape

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Of God all seeing, or deceive his heart
Omniscient? Who in all things wise and just,
Hinder'd not Satan, to attenipt the mind
Of man, with strength entire, and free-will

arm’d,
Complete to have discover'd and repuls'd
Whatever whiles of foe or seeming friend :
For still they knew, and onght 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 less ? the

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