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Sent from whose sovran goodness I adore.
Gentle to me and affable hath been
Thy condescension, and shall be honour'd ever
With grateful Memorie: thou to mankind
Be good and friendly still, and oft return.
So parted they, the Angel up to Heav'n
From the thick shade, and Adam to his Bowre.
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-4 These lines were added in the second edition (1674) when
Book VII was divided into two at line 640. Line 641 had read
To whom thus Adam gratefully repli'd'.
69 as] and 1674.
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The End Of The Eighth Book.
BOOK IX.
THE ARGUMENT.
Satan having compast the Earth, with meditated guile returns as a mist
by Night into Paradise, enters into the Serpent sleeping. Adam and Eve
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