Book IX

“Carnal desire inflaming: he on Eve Began to cast lascivious eyes; she him As wantonly repaid; in lust they burn, Till Adam thus ‘gan Eve...

“Heaven is for thee to high to know what passes there; be lowly wise; Think only what concerns thee and thy being; Dream not of...

“things to their thought so unimaginable as hate in Heaven”

Book VI

“We know no time when we were not as now; Know none before us, self-begot, self-rais’d By our own quickening power, when fatal course Had circled his full...

“Who can in reason, then, or right, assume Monarchy over such as live by right His equals, if in power and splendour less, In freedom...

“Drew after him the third part of Heaven’s host”

“Nor knew I not To be, both will and deed, created free.”