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cause_n	effect_n	necessary_a	produce_v	6,956	5	9.5140	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36695	The state of innocence and fall of man an opera, written in heroique verse and dedicated to her Royal Highness, the Dutchess / by John Dryden ...	Dryden, John, 1631-1700.; Milton, John, 1608-1674. Paradise lost.	1677 (1677)	Wing D2372; ESTC R4242	37,781	70

temp'rate Clime To purge my gloom and by the Sun refin'd Bask in his beams and bleach me in the wind Gabriel If pain to shun be all thy business here Methinks thy fellows the same course should steer Is their pain less who yet behind thee stay Or thou less hardy to endure than they Lucifer Nor one nor t'other but as leaders ought I ventur'd first alone first danger sought And first explor'd this new created frame Which fill'd our dusky Regions with its fame In hopes my fainting Troops to settle here And to defend against your Thunderer This spot of earth or nearer Heav'n repair And forrage to his gates from Middle Ayr. Ithuriel Fool to believe thou any part eanst gain From him who could'st not thy first ground maintain Gabriel But whether that design or one as vain T' attempt the lives of these first drew thee here Avoid the place and never more appear Upon this Hallow'd earth else prove our might Lucifer Not that I fear do I decline the fight You I disdain let me with him contend On whom your limitary power 's depend More honour from the sender than the sent Till then I have accomplish'd my intent And leave this place which but augments my pain Gazing to wish yet hopeless to obtain Exit They following him Act IV. Scene 1. Paradise Adam and Eve Adam STrange was your dream and full of sad portent Avert it Heav'n if it from Heav'n were sent Let on thy foes the dire presages fall To us be good and easy when we call Eve Behold from far a breaking Cloud appears Which in it many winged wariours bears Their glory shoots upon my aking sense Thou stronger may'st endure the floud of light And while in shades I chear my fainting sight Encounter the descending excellence Exit The Cloud descends with six Angels in it and when it 's near the ground breaks and on each side discovers six more they descend out of the Cloud Raphael and Gabriel discourse with Adam the rest stand at distance Raphael First of mankind that we from Heav'n are sent Is from Heav'n's care thy ruine to prevent Th'Apostate Angel has by night been here And whisper'd through thy sleeping consorts ear Delusive dreams thus warn'd by us beware And guide her frailty by thy timely care Gabriel These as thy guards from outward harms are sent Ills from within thy reason must prevent Adam Natives of Heav'n who in compassion deign To want that place where joyes immortal reign In care of me what praises can I pay Defended in obedience taught t' obey Raphael Praise him alone who God-like form'd thee free With will unbounded as a Diety Who gave thee reason as thy Aid to chuse Apparent good and evil to refuse Obedience is that good This Heav'n exacts And Heav'n all just from man requires not acts Which man wants pow'r to do pow'r then is giv'n Of doing good but not compell'd by Heav'n Gabriel Made good that thou dost to thy Maker owe But to thy self if thou continu'st so Adam Freedome of will of all good things is best But can it be by finite man possest I know not how Heav'n can communicate What equals man to his Creators state Raphael Heav'n cannot give his boundless pow'r away But boundless libertie of choice he may So Orbs from the first mover motion take Yet each their proper revolutions make Adam Grant Heav'n could once have given us liberty Are we not bounded now by firm decree Since what so er'e is preordain'd must be Else Heav'n for man events might preordain And man's free will might make those orders vain Gabriel Th' Eternal when he did the world create All other agents did necessitate So what he order'd they by nature do Thus light things mount and heavy downward go Man only boasts an arbitrary state Adam Yet causes their effects necessitate In willing agents where is freedom then Or who can break the chain which limits men To act what is unchangeably forecast Since the first cause gives motion to the last Raphael Heav'n by fore-knowing what will surely be Does only first effects in causes see And finds but does not make necessity Creation is of pow'r and will th' effect Foreknowledge only of his Intellect His prescience makes not but supposes things Infers necessity to be not brings Thus thou art not constrain'd to good or ill Causes which work th' effect force not the will Adam The force unseen and distant I confess But the long chain makes not the bondage less Ev'n Man himself may to himself seem free And think that choice which is necessity Gabriel And who but man should judge of man's free state Adam I find that I can chuse to love or hate Obey or disobey do good or ill Yet such a choice is but consent not will I can but chuse what he has first design'd For he before that choice my will confin'd Gabriel Such impious fancies where they entrance gain Make Heav'n all pure thy crimes to preordain Adam Far far from me be banish'd such a thought I argue only to be better taught Can there be freedom when what now seems free Was founded on some first necessity For what ere cause can move the will t'elect Must be sufficient to produce th' effect And what 's sufficient must effectual be Then how is man thus forc'd by causes free Raphael Sufficient causes only work th' effect When necessary agents they respect Such is not man who though the cause suffice Yet often he his free assent denies Adam What causes not is not sufficient still Gabriel Sufficient in it self not in thy will Raphael When we see causes join'd t'effects at last The chain but shows necessity that 's past That what 's done is ridiculous proof of fate Tell me which part it does necessitate I 'll chuse the other there I 'll link th' effect O chain which fools to catch themselves project Adam Though no constraint from Heav'n or causes be Heav'n may prevent that ill he does foresee And not preventing though he does not cause He seems to will that man should break his laws Gabriel Heav'n may permit but not to ill consent For hind'ring ill he would all choice prevent 'T were to unmake to take away thy will Aaam. Better constrain'd to good than free to ill Raphael But what reward or punishment could be If man to neither good nor ill were free Th' Eternal justice could decree no pain To him whose sins it self did first ordain And good compell'd could no reward exact His pow'r would shine in goodness not thy act Our task is done obey and in that choice Thou shalt be blest and Angels shall rejoyce Raphael and Gabriel fly up in the Cloud the other Angels go off Adam Hard state of life since Heav'n fore-knows my will Why am I not ty'd up from doing ill Why am I trusted with my self at large When hee 's more able to sustain the charge Since Angels fell whose strength was

more perfect all I wish to be Were I but sure Alass of pleasing thee Adam Y'have shown how much you my content design Yet ah would Heav'n's displeasure pass like mine Must I without you then in wild woods dwell Think and but think of what I lov'd so well Condemn'd to live with subjects ever mute A salvage Prince unpleas'd though absolute Eve Please then your self with me and freely tast Lest I without you should to Godhead hast Lest diff'ring in degree you claim too late Unequal love when 't is deny'd by fate Adam Cheat not your self with dreams of Deity Too well but yet too late your crime I see Nor think the fruit your knowledge does improve But you have beauty still and I have love Not cozen'd I with choice my life resign Imprudence was your sault but love is mine Takes the Fruit and eats it Eve embracing him O wond'rous pow'r of matchless love exprest Why was this trial thine of loving best I envy thee that lot and could it be Would venture something more than death for thee Not that I fear that death th' event can prove W' are both immortal while so well we love Adam What e're shall be the event the lot is cast Where appetites are giv'n what sin to tast Or if a sin 't is but by precept such Th' offence so small the punishment's too much To seek so soon his new made world's decay Nor we nor that were fashion'd for a day Eve Give to the winds thy fear of death or ill And think us made but for each others will Adam I will at least defer that anxious thought And death by fear shall not be nigher brought If he will come let us to joyes make hast Then let him seize us when our pleasure 's past We 'll take up all before and death shall find We have drain'd life and lefta void behind Exeunt Enter Lucifer Lucifer 'T is done Sick nature at that instant trembled round And Mother Earth sigh'd as she felt the wound Of how short durance was this new-made state How far more mighty than Heav'ns love Hells hate His project ruin'd and his King of clay He form'd an Empire for his foe to sway Heav'n let him rule which by his arms he got I 'm pleas'd to have obtain'd the second lot This Earth is mine whose Lord I made my thrall Annexing to my Crown his conquer'd Ball Loos'd from the lakes my Legions I will lead And o're the darkned Ayr black Banners spread Contagious damps from hence shall mount above And force him to his inmost Heav'n's remove A Clap of thunder is heard He hears already and I boast too soon I dread that Engine which secur'd his Throne I 'll dive below his wrath into the deep And waste that Empire which I cannot keep Sinkes down Raphael and Gabriel descend Raphael As much of grief as happiness admits In Heav'n on each Celestial forehead sits Kindness for man and pity for his fate May mixt with bliss and yet not violate Their Heav'nly harps a lower strain began And in soft Music mourn'd the fall of man Gabriel I saw th'Angelic guards from earth ascend Griev'd they must now no longer man attend The beams about their Temples dimly shone One would have thought the crime had been their own Th'Etherial people flock'd for news in hast Whom they with down cast lookes and scarce saluting past While each did in his pensive brest prepare A sad accompt of their successess care Raphael Th' Eternal yet in Majesty severe And strictest justice did mild pity bear Their deaths deferr'd and banishment their doom In penitence forseen leaves mercy room Gabriel That message is thy charge mine leads me hence Plac'd at the garden's gate for its defence Lest man returning the blest place pollute And scape from death by life's immortal fruit Another Clap of Thunder Exeunt severally Enter Adam and Eve affrighted Adam In what dark cavern shall I hide my head Where seek retreat now innocence is fled Safe in that guard I durst ev'n Hell defy Without it tremble now when Heav'n is nigh Eve What shall we do or where direct our flight Eastward as far as I could cast my sight From op'ning Heavens I saw descending light It s glitt'ring through the Trees I still behold The Cedar tops seem all to burn with gold Adam Some shape divine whose beams I cannot bear Would I were hid where light could not appear Deep into some thick covert would I run Impenetrable to the Stars or Sun And fenc'd from day by night's eternal skreen Unknown to Heav'n and to my self unseen Eve In vain what hope to shun his piercing sight Who from dark Chaos stroke the sparks of light Adam These should have been your thoughts when parting hence You trusted to your guideless innocence See now th' effects of your own wilful mind Guilt walks before us Death pursues behind So fatal 't was to seek temptations out Most confidence has still most cause to doubt Eve Such might have been thy hap alone assail'd And so together might we both have fail'd Curs'd vassallage of all my future kind First Idolis'd till loves hot fire be o're Then slaves to those who courted us before Adam I counsel'd you to stay your pride refus'd By your own lawless will you stand accus'd Eve Have you that priviledge of only wise And would you yield to her you so despise You should have shown th' Authority you boast And Soveraign-like my headlong will have crost Counsel was not enough to sway my heart An absolute restraint had been your part Adam Ev'n such returns do they deserve to find When force is lawful who are fondly kind Unlike my love for when thy guilt I knew I shar'd the curse which did that crime pursue Hard fate of love which rigor did forbear And now 't is tax'd because 't was not severe Eve You have your self your kindness overpay'd He ceases to oblige who can upbraid Adam On womens virtue who too much rely To boundless will give boundless liberty Restraint you will not brook but think it hard Your prudence is not trusted as your guard And to your selves so left if ill ensues You first our weak indulgence will accuse Curst be that hour When sated with my single happiness I chose a partner to controle my bliss Who wants that reason which her will should sway And knowes but just enough to disobey Eve Better with Brutes my humble lot had gone Of reason void accountable for none Th' unhappiest of creation is a wife Made lowest in the highest rank of life Her fellow's slave to know and not to chuse Curst with that reason she must never use Adam Add that she 's proud fantastick apt to change Restless at home and ever prone to range With shows delighted and so vain is she She 'll meet the Devil rather than not see Our wise Creator for his Quires divine Peopled his Heavn with Souls all masculine Ah why must man from