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cause_n	good_a	know_v	see_v	4,988	5	3.1452	3	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

what miracle was shown Lucifer Who would not tell what thou vouchsaf'st to hear Saw'st thou not late a speckled serpent rear His gilded spires to climb on yon'fair tree Before this happy minute I was he Eve Thou speak'st of wonders make thy story plain Lucifer Not wishing then and thoughtless to obtain So great a bliss but led by sence of good Inborn to all I sought my needful food Then on that Heav'nly tree my sight I cast The colour urg'd my eye the scent my tast Not to detain thee long I took did eat Scarce had my palate touch'd th' immortal meat But on a sudden turn'd to what I am God-like and next to thee I fair became Thought spake and reason'd and by reason found Thee Nature's Queen with all her graces crown'd Eve Happy thy lot but far unlike is mine Forbidd to eat not daring to repine 'T was Heav'n's command and should we disobey What rais'd thy Being ours must take away Lucifer Sure you mistake the precept or the tree Heav'n cannot envious of his blessings be Some chance-born plant he might forbid your use As wild or guilty of a deadly juice Not this whose colour scent divine and tast Proclaim the thoughtful Maker not in hast Eve By all these signs too well I know the fruit And dread a pow'r severe and absolute Lucifer Severe indeed ev'n to injustice hard If death for knowing more be your reward Knowledge of good is good and therefore fit And to know ill is good for shunning it Eve What but our good could he design in this Who gave us all and plac'd in perfect bliss Lucifer Excuse my zeal fair Soveraign in your cause Which dares to tax his arbitrary laws T is all his aym to keep you blindly low That servile fear from ignorance may flow We scorn to worship whom too well we know He knows that eating you shall god-like be As wife as fit to be ador'd as he For his own int'rest he this Law has giv'n Such Beauty may raise factions in his Heav'n By awing you he does possession keep And is too wise to hazard partnership Eve Alass who dares dispute with him that right The power which form'd us must be infinite Lucifer Who told you how your form was first design'd The Sun and Earth produce of every kind Grass Flow'rs and Fruits nay living creatures too Their mould was base 't was more refin'd in you Where vital heat in purer Organs wrought Produc'd a nobler kind rais'd up to thought And that perhaps might his begining be Something was first I question if 't were he But grant him first yet still suppose him good Not envying those he made immortal food Eve But death our disobedience must pursue Lucifer Behold in me what shall arrive to you I tasted yet I live nay more have got A state more perfect than my native lot Nor fear this petty fault his wrath should raise Heav'n rather will your dauntless virtue praise That sought through threat'ned death immortal good Gods are immortal only by their food Tast and remove What diff'rence does 'twixt them and you remain As I gain'd reason you shall God-head gain Eve aside He eats and lives in knowledge greater grown Was death invented then for us alone Is intellectual food to man deny'd Which Brutes have with so much advantage try'd Nor only try'd themselves but frankly more To me have offer'd their unenvi'd store Lucifer Be bold and all your needless doubts remove View well this Tree the Queen of all the grove How vast her bole how wide her arms are spread How high above the rest she shoots her head Plac'd in the mid'st would Heav'n his works disgrace By planting poyson in the happiest place Hast you lose time and God-head by delay Plucking the Fruit. Eve looking about her T is done I 'll venture all and disobey Perhaps far hid in Heav'n he does not spy And none of all his Hymning guards are nigh To my dear lord the lovely fruit I 'll bear He to partake my bliss my crime shall share Exit hastily Lucifer She flew and thank'd me not for hast t' was hard With no return such counsel to reward My work is done or much the greater part She 's now the tempter to ensnare his heart He whose firm faith no reason could remove Will melt before that soft seducer love Exit Act. V. Scene I. Paradise Eve with a bough in her hand Eve MEthinks I tread more lightly on the ground My nimble feet from unhurt flow'rs rebound I walk in Ayr and scorn this Earthly seat Heav'n is my palace this my base retreat Take me not Heav'n too soon 't will be unkind To leave the partner of my bed behind I love the wretch but stay shall I afford Him part already he 's too much my Lord. 'T is in my pow'r to be a Soveraign now And knowing more to make his manhood bow Empire is sweet but how if Heav'n has spy'd If I should dye and he above provide Some other Eve and place her in my stead Shall she possess his love when I am dead No he shall eat and dye with me or live Our equal crimes shall equal fortune give Enter Adam Adam What Joy without your sight has earth in store While you were absent Eden was no more Winds murmur'd through the leaves your long delay And fountains or'e their pebles chid your stay But with your presence cheer'd they cease to mourn And walks wear fresher green at your return Eve Henceforth you never shall have cause to chide No future absence shall our joys divide 'T was a short death my love ne'r try'd before And therefore strange but yet the cause was more Adam My trembling heart forbodes some ill I fear To ask that cause which I desire to hear What means that lovely fruit what means alass That blood which flushes guilty in your face Speak do not yet at last I must be told Eve Have courage then 't is manly to be bold This fruit why dost thou shake no death is nigh 'T is what I tasted first yet do not dye Adam Is it I dare not ask it all at first Doubt is some ease to those who fear the worst Say 't is not Eve 'T is not what thou need'st to fear What danger does in this fair fruit appear We have been cozen'd and had still been so Had I not ventur'd boldly first to know Yet not I first I almost blush to say The serpent eating taught me first the way The serpent tasted and the god-like fruit Gave the dumb voice gave reason to the Brute Adam O fairest of all creatures last and best Of what Heav'n made how art thou dispossest Of all thy native Glories faln Decay'd Pity so rare a frame so frail was made Now cause of thy own ruine and with thine Ah who can live without thee cause of mine Eve Reserve thy pity till I want it more I know my self much happier than before More wise