Paradise Lost Quotes - BOOK 9

Tragic: INMCtNtT

I now must change / Those Notes to Tragic;

Fraud and malice: NI / iMFaMB / oMD

 now improv'd / In meditated fraud and malice, bent / On mans destruction,

Creature: HR / WNS, aWID / CEC

he roam'd / With narrow search; and with inspection deep / Consider'd every Creature

Serpent: tSSBoAtF

The Serpent suttlest Beast of all the Field

Imp: FIoF

fittest Imp of fraud,

SleIghts: WSNWSM

Whatever sleights none would suspicious mark

Inward grief: bFfIG / HBPiPtP

but first from inward griefe / His bursting passion into plaints thus pour'd:

Pleasures: tMIS / PAM, sMMIF / TWM

the more I see / Pleasures about me, so much more I feel / Torment within me

Destroying: fOiDIFE / tMRT

For onely in destroying I find ease / To my relentless thoughts

Spoils: WHS, OS

With Heav'nly spoils, our spoils

Erst contended: WEC / WGtStH, aNC / iaB, aMWBS

who erst contended / With Gods to sit the highest, am now constraind / Into a Beast, and mixt with bestial slime

Ambition: BWWNAaR / Dt?

But what will not Ambition and Revenge / Descend to?

Spite: StWSiBR

spite then with spite is best repaid

Wanting Voice: FCtHP / aJtVWttC / oCWV

forth came the human pair / And joind thir vocal Worship to the Choir / Of Creatures wanting voice

First: EFtHHtB

Eve first to her Husband thus began

Enjoyned: OPTE, btMH / Au, tWUOLG

Our pleasant task enjoyn'd, but till more hands / Aid us, the work under our labour grows

Labours: LuDOL

Let us divide our labours

Sole: SE, AS

Sole Eve, Associate sole

Lovelier: NLCbF / iW, ttSHG / aWiHHtP

nothing lovelier can be found / In Woman, then to studie houshold good / And good workes in her Husband to promote

Faithful side: LNtFS / tGtB, SStaP

leave not the faithful side / That gave thee being, still shades thee and protects

Seemliest: SaSbHHS / WGH, oWHtWE

Safest and seemliest by her Husband staies, / Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.

Informed: tSaEWH, WS / oR, BbTIIL / aFtPAO-H

That such an Enemie we have, who seeks / Our ruin, both by thee informd I learne / And from the parting Angel over-heard

Thee Assault: TE, TB, WHD / oD, FoMtASL

The Enemie, though bold, will hardly dare, / Or daring, first on mee th' assault shall light.

Faith: ML, bE, WT / LAtHFS

Matrimonial Love; but Eve, who thought / Less attributed to her Faith sincere,

Condition: itbOC, ttD / iNCSbaF

If this be our condition, thus to dwell / In narrow circuit strait'nd by a Foe,

Happiness: HaWH, SiFoH?

How are we happie, still in fear of harm?

Permission: WTPT, aTF

With thy permission then, and thus forewarned

Wood-Nymph: SSW, aLaW-NL

Soft she withdrew, and like a Wood-Nymph light

Deport: G-LD / TNaSWBaQA / BWSGTaAYR

Goddess-like deport, / Though not as shee with Bow and Quiver armd / But with such Gardning Tools as Art yet rude

Ardent look: LWALHEP / DBDMHS

long with ardent look his Eye pursu'd / Delighted, but desiring more her stay

Angelic: HHF / AbMS, aF / HGI, HEA

her Heav'nly forme / Angelic, but more soft, and Feminine, / Her graceful Innocence, her every Aire 

Malice: O / HM

overawd / His Malice,

Goodness: FtTR / SGoED / oG, oH, oE, oR / BtHHtAiHB

for the time remaind / Stupidly good, of enmitie disarm'd / Of guile, of hate, of envie, of revenge; / But the hot Hell that alwayes in him burnes

Tortures: THNM, tMHS / oPNfHO

And tortures him now more, the more he sees / Of pleasure not for him ordain'd:

Husband: HH, fIVFR, NN / WHIMIS

Her Husband, for I view far round, not nigh / Whose higher intellectual more I shun,

Goddess: SbS / aGAG, AaS

shouldst be seen / A Goddess among Gods, ador'd and serv'd

Language: LoMP / bToB, aHSE?

Language of Man pronounc't / By Tongue of Brute, and human sense exprest?

Empress: EotFW

Empress of this fair World

Milk: OEoGDWMaE

Of Ewe or Goat dropping with Milk at Eevn,

Alteration: ELIMP / SAiM

 ere long I might perceave / Strange alteration in me

Overpraising: S, tOLiD / tVotF

Serpent, thy overpraising leaves in doubt / The vertue of that Fruit,

Commands: GSC, aLTC / SDoHV

 God so commanded, and left that Command / Sole Daughter of his voice

Snake sneak: QotU, DNB / TRToD; YSND

Queen of this Universe, doe not believe / Those rigid threats of Death; ye shall not Die

Shut to Man: StBStM, WttBiO?

Shall that be shut to Man, which to the Beast is open?

Ignorant: KYLaI

Keep ye low and ignorant

Nom Nom: HRHiEH / FRttF, SP, SE: EFtW, aNFHS / STAHWGSoW

her rash hand in evil hour  / Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: / Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat / Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe

Death: KNED

knew not eating Death:

Appearance: tAiWS / SIA? SItHMK / aYMC, aGHtP / FHWM, oRN / BKtOoKiMP / WC?

to Adam in what sort / Shall I appeer? shall I to him make known / As yet my change, and give him to partake / Full happiness with mee, or rather not, / But keep the odds of Knowledge in my power / Without Copartner?

Equality: RMME, aP / aTNU, S / S: fIWiF

render me more equal, and perhaps, / A thing not undesireable, somtime / Superior: for inferior who is free

EYE SPY: WiGHS / aDE? tISBNM / aAWtAE / SLWHE, IE

what if God have seen / And Death ensue? then I shall be no more, / And Adam wedded to another Eve, / Shall live with her enjoying, I extinct;

DDD: D, D, aNtDD?

Defac't, deflourd, and now to Death devote?

Ruined: AMWtHR

And mee with thee hath ruind

Ribs: SGCAE, aI / ARA

Should God create another Eve, and I / Another Rib afford

Lose: tLtWtLMS

to loose thee were to loose my self

Fruit given: SGHotFEF / WLH

She gave him of that fair enticing Fruit / With liberal hand:

Female: FOWFC

fondly overcome with Femal charm

completion: WaCotMS

Wept at compleating of the mortal Sin

divinity: FttF / DWtBW

fansie that they feel / Divinitie within them breeding wings

Lust: CDE, hoE / BtCLE

Carnal desire enflaming, hee on Eve / Began to cast lascivious Eyes,

Lust: WEDCF

whose Eye darted contagious Fire.

Seale: tMGtS

their mutual guilt the Seale, 

Minds darkened: SFtEhO, atMHD; ItaaV / HStFKIwG

Soon found thir Eyes how op'nd, and thir minds / How dark'nd; innocence, that as a veile / Had shadow'd them from knowing ill, was gon

Soiled: oI,oF,oP / oWONSaS

Of Innocence, of Faith, of Puritie / Our wonted Ornaments now soild and staind,

Angels: HSiBtF / HoGoA

How shall I behold the face / Henceforth of God or Angel

Never Left: WItNHPFtS / aGHGtSaLR?

Was I to have never parted from thy side? / As good have grown there still a liveless Rib.

Adam: ittL, ittR / oMtt, IE

Is this the Love, is this the recompence / Of mine to thee, ingrateful Eve

Accuser: WSitsP,tiT / NEDAt / biR / tEN, WiBMC / attA

What seemd in thee so perfet, that I thought / No evil durst attempt thee, but I rue / That errour now, which is become my crime, / And thou th' accuser.

Final Line: TtiMAS / tFH,bNS-C / aotVCANE

Thus they in mutual accusation spent / The fruitless hours, but neither self-condemning, / And of thir vain contest appeer'd no end.