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 * Whereto thus Adam, fatherly displeased:

"O excerableexecrable [sic] son! so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given. He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl, Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free. But this usurper his encroachment proud Stays not on Man; to God his tower intends SeigeSiege [sic] and defiance. Wretched man! what food Will he convey up thither, to sustain Himself and his rash army? where thin air Above the clouds will pine his entrails gross, And famish him of breath, if not of bread." To whom thus Michael:—"Justly thou abhorrest That son, who on the quiet state of men Such trouble brought, affecting to subdue Rational liberty; yet know withal, Since thy original lapse, true liberty Is lost, which always with right reason dwells, Twinned, and from her hath no dividual being. Reason in man obscured, or not obeyed, Immediately inordinate desires And upstart passions catch the government From reason, and to servitude reduce Man, till then free. Therefore, since he permits