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Who first seduced them to that foul revolt? The infernal serpent; he it was, whose guile, stirred up with envy and revenge, deceived the mother of mankind...
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...what time his pride had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host of rebel angels, by whose aid, aspiring to set himself in glory above his peers.
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| Here we may reign secure; and in my choice to reign is worth ambition, though in Hell; Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven. | |
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