Book VIII No more of talk where God or Angel Guest
With Man, as with his Friend, familiar us'd
To sit indulgent, and with him partake
Rural repast, permitting him the while
Venial discourse…
Book IX Meanwhile the hainous and despightfull act
Of SATAN done in Paradise, and how
Hee in the Serpent had perverted EVE,
Her Husband shee, to taste the fatall fruit,
Was known in Heav'n;…
A Valediction of My Name, in the WindowI My name engraved herein
Doth contribute my firmness to this glass,
Which ever since that charm hath been
As hard, as that which…
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