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continues to drive them from the garden-Adam obeys-Eve laments, but soon comforts Adamhe at length departs, animating himself with the idea, that to an intrepid heart, every region is a home.

Scene 5. A cherub moralizing on the creation and fall of Adam, concludes the third and last act."

- But, notwithstanding the various speculations that have been made on the sources to which Milton has been indebted for the subject of his Poem, his name will stand unperishable on the scroll of fame, until the great globe itself shall perish.

Bromley, Middlesex,
September, 1828.

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BOOK I.

Of Man's First Disobedience.

In the first place we read that man was created
"in the image of God after his likeness," but
little lower than the Angels, and crowned with
glory and honor.-One sole command seems to
have been given as the test of obedience. But of
the tree of knowledge of good and evil thou
shalt not eat of it, for in the day that thou eatest
thereof thou shalt surely die. Gen. ii. 17.
With Loss of Eden.

The Garden of Eden is itself alluded to by the Prophets, as a place of spiritual knowledge, joy, and happiness. Isa. li. 3. To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called Trees of Righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he might be glorified. Ezek. xxviii. 13. Thou hast been in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created, xxxvi. 35. And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the

at Christ's command, and received his sight. 15 Above th' Aonian mount.

The supposed abode of the muses.

16 And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer, Before all temples th'upright heart and pure.

God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth. John iv. 24.

34 Th'infernal Serpent.

Satan, the adversary; the great and avowed enemy of God and man.

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him the Almighty Power, Hurl'd headlong flaming from th’ethereal sky.

And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent called the Devil and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world. Rev. xii. 7, 9.

but rather darkness visible.

There arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace, and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit. Rev. ix. 2.

81 Beelzebub.

Beelzebub, the prince of the Devils. Matt. xii. 24.

129. Seraphim.

In scripture denotes an Angel of the first order. 157 Cherub.

An Angel of the second order.

197 As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born.

And it came to pass, when men began to mul

tiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them; that the sons of God saw the daughters of men, that they were fair, and they took them wives of all which they chose; there were giants in the earth in those days, the same became mighty men, which were of old men of renown; and God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually; and the Lord said I will destroy man, but Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Gen. vi. 1.

Notwithstanding the awful warning of the destruction of the earth by the flood, we find the descendants of this just man guilty of idolatry, that Rachael, the wife of Jacob, stole the images that were her Fathers; the worship of idols of wood and stone spread over the earth; in after ages, at Athens, St. Paul's spirit was stirred up in him, when he saw the whole city giving up to idolatry.

199 Briareos.

A giant, who, according to the heathen mythology, warred against heaven, and had fifty heads, and a hundred hands.

199 Typhon.

A huge giant who also warred against heaven. 200 Tarsus.

Celebrated for the great men it produced, was a town of Cilicia, a country of Asia Minor, on the sea coast to the north of Cyprus, west of the Euphrates, and south of mount Taurus, the largest mountain of Asia.

which was composed of seventeen stars. Orion rises about the 9th of March, and sets about the 21st of June; his rising is generally accompanied with great rains and storms.

307 Busiris and his Memphian chivalry.

A name of many of the Egyptian kings. The waters returned and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharoah. And Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore. Exod. xiv. 28.

309 The sojourners of Goshen.

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And Pharoah spake unto Joseph, saying, the land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy Father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell. Gen. xlvii. 3, 6.

as when the potent rod

Qf Amram's son.

Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and Jehovah brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts; and the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, so that the land was darkened. Exod. x. 18, 15.

842. That e'er the realm q`` impious Pharoah hung.

A title anciently belonging to the kings of Egypt.

848. And darkened all the land of Nile.

A river of Egypt. Nilus, a king of Thebes. gove his name to the river which flows through the middle of Egypt, and falls into the MediterYanaan ser: the Nile, anciently called Egyptus.

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