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Who by his wisdom did create
The painted Heav'ns so full of state.

For his c.
Who did the folid earth ordain
To rise above the watry plain.

For his c.
Who by his all-commanding might
Did fill the new-made world with light.

For his &c.
And caus'd the golden-treffed fun,
All the day long his course to run,

For his &c.
The horned moon to shine by night,
Amongst her spangled sisters bright.

For his c.
He with his thunder-clasping hand
Smote the first-born of Egypt land.

For his &c.
And in despite of Pharao fell,
He brought from thence his Israel.

For his &c.

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The

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The ruddy waves he cleft in twain
Of the Erythræan main.

For his c.
The floods stood still like walls of glass,
While the Hebrew bands did pass.

For his &c.
But full soon they did devour
The tawny king with all his power.

For his &c.
His chosen people he did bless
In the wasteful wilderness.

For his C.
In bloody battel he brought down
Kings of prowess and renown.

For his c.
He foil'd bold Seon and his hoft,
That rul'd the Amorrean coaft.

For his c.
And large-limbid Og he did subdue,
With all his over-hardy crew.

For his &c.

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And to his servant Israel
He gave their land therein to dwell.

For his &c.
He hath with a piteous eye
Beheld us in our misery.

For his &c.
And freed us from the slavery
Of the invading enemy:

For his c.
All living creatures he doth feed,
And with full hand supplies their need.

For his &c.
Let us therefore warble forth
His mighty majesty and worth.

For his c.
That his mansion hath on high
Above the reach of mortal

eye.
For his mercies ay indure,
Ever faithful, ever sure.

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From

Adam }with the Serpent

From Milton's Manuscript.
The Persons,

The Persons.
Michael

Moses Heavenly Love

Divine Justice, Mercy, Wisdom, Heavenly Chorus of Angels

Love
Lucifer

Hesperus the Evening Star
Chorus of Angels

Lucifer
Conscience

Adam Death

Eve Labor

Conscience Sickness

Labor Discontent >Mutes

Sickness Ignorance

Discontent

Mutes with others

Ignorance Faith

Fear Hope

Death
Charity

Faith
Hope

Charity.
Other Tragedies.
ADAM in BANISHMENT,
The FLOOD.
ABRAM in EGYPT.

PARADISE Lost.

The Persons. Mofes προλογίζει, recounting how he af

Act II. fum'd his true body; that it corrupts not, be- Heavenly Love. cause of his [abode] with God in the mount; Evening Star. declares the like of Enoch and Eliah; besides Chorus sing the marriage song, and describe the purity of the place, that certain pure winds, Paradise. dews, and clouds preserve it from corruption;

Act III. whence exhorts to the sight of God; tells they

Lucifer contriving Adam's ruin. cannot see Adam in the state of innocence by Chorus fears for Adam, and relates Lucia reason of their sin.

fer's rebellion and fall. Justice

Act IV.
debating what should become of
Mercy
Wisdom
Man, if he fail.

Eve
Chorus of Angels sing a hymn of the creation. Conscience cites them to God's examination:

Chorus

Adan} fallen.

fort

Chorus bewails, and tells the good Adam 3, 4, beginning with the first overthrow of hath lost.

Israel by the Philistins, interlac'd with Samuel's Act V.

vision concerning Eli's family. Adam and Eve driven out of Paradise: Jonathan rescued, Sam. 1. 14. Presented by an Angel with

Doeg Nandering, Sam. 1. 22. Labor, Grief, Hatred, Envy, War,

The Sheepshearers in Carmel, a pastoral, Famin, Pestilence, Sickness,

Mutes,

1 Sam. 25.
Discontent, Ignorance, Fear,

Saul in Gilboa, 1 Sam. 28. 31.
Death enter'd into the world,

David revolted, 1 Sam. from the 27 c. to to whom he gives their names : likewise Win

the

31. ter, Heat, Tempest, &c.

David adulterous, 2 Sam. C. II, 12. Faith

Tamar, 2 Sam. 13. Hope comfort him, and instruct him.

Achitophel, 2 Sam. 15, 16, 17, 18. Charity

Adoniah, 1 Reg. 2.
Chorus briefly concludes.

Solomon Gynæcocraţumenus, or Idolomar-
The Deluge.
Sodom.

gus, aut Thysiazufæ. Reg. 1. II. Dinah. Vide Euseb. Præparat. Evang. L.9.C.22. Rehoboam, 1 Reg. 12. where is disputed of The Persons.

a politic religion. Dinah.

Hamor.

Abias Therfæus. 1 Reg. 14. The queen Debora, Rebecca's nurse. Sichem.

after much dispute, as the last refuge sent to Jacob.

Counselors 2.

the prophet Ahias of Shilo; receives the mefSimeon.

Nuncius.

sage. The Epitafis in that she hearing the

child fhall die as she comes home, refuses to Levi.

Chorus.

return, thinking thereby to elude the oracle. Thamar Cuophorusa; where Juda is found The former part is spent in bringing the fick to have been the author of that crime, which prince forth as it were desirous to shift his he condemn'd in Thamar. Thamar excus'd chamber and couch as dying men use, his fain what she attempted.

ther telling him what facrifice he had sent for The Golden Calf, or the Massacre in Horeb. his health to Bethel and Dan ; his fearlesness The Quails, Num. 11.

of death, and putting his father in mind to set The Murmurers, Num. 14.

(send) to Ahiah. The Chorus of the elders of Corah, Dathan, &c. Num. 16, 17. Ifrael, bemoaning his virtues bereft them, and Moabitides, Num. 25.

at another time wondring why Jeroboam being Achan, Josue 7 and 8.

bad himfelf fhould fo grieve for his son thar Josuah in Gibeon, Jof. 10.

was good, &c. Gideon Idoloclastes, Jud. 6, 7.

Imbres, or the Showers, 1 Reg. 18. 19. Gideon pursuing, Jud. 8.

Naboth ouxogavišjusvos, 1 Reg. 21. Abimelech the Usurper, Jud. 9.

Ahab, 1 Reg. 22. beginning at the synod Samson pursophorus, or Hybristes, or Sam- of falte prophets; ending with relation of fon marrying or in Ramath Lechi, Jud. 15. Ahab's death; his body brought; Zedechiah Dagonalia, Jud. 16.

sain by Ahab's friends for his seducing. (See Comazontes, or the Benjaminites, or the Lavater, 2 Chron. 18.) Rioters, Jud. 19, 20, 21.

Elias in the mount, 2 Keg. 1. 'Opsikátns, or Theristria, a pastoral out of Ruth.

better, Elias Polemistes. Eliadæ, Hophni and Phinehas, Sam. 1, 2,

Elifæus