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Rh Firt book Of mans firt disobedience, & the fruit Of that forbidd'n tree, whose mortall tat Brought death into the world, & all our woe, With lose of Eden, till one greater Man Retore us, & regaine the blisfull eate, Sing heav'nly Mue, that on the ecret top Of Oreb or of Sinai didt inpire That hepherd, who first taught the choen eed, In the beginning how the Heav'ns & Earth Rose out of Chaos: Or if Sion hill Delight thee more, & Siloa's brooke that flow'd Fat by the Oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aide to my adventrous ong, That with no middle flight intends to oare Above th' Aonian Mount; while it perues Things unattempted yet in proe or rime. And cheifly thou O Spirit that dot prefer Before all temples th' upright heart & pure Intruct me, for thou know't; thou from the firt Wat preent, & with mighty wings outpread Dove-like atst brooding on the vast Abyse, And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is darke