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By faving doctrin, and from error lead

To know, and knowing worship God aright, 475
Is yet more kingly; this attracts the foul,
Governs the inner man, the nobler part;
That other o'er the body only reigns,
And oft by force, which to a generous mind
So reigning can be no fincere delight.
Befides to give a kingdom hath been thought
Greater and nobler done, and to lay down
Far more magnanimous, than to affume.

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Riches are needless then, both for themselves,
And for thy reason why they should be fought, 485
To gain a scepter, ofteft better miss'd.

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THE

THIRD BOOK

OF

PARADISE REGAIN'D.

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PARADISE REGAIN'D.

BOOK III.

So fpake the Son of God, and Satan ftood

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A while as mute confounded what to fay, What to reply, confuted and convinc'd Of his weak arguing, and fallacious drift; At length collecting all his ferpent wiles, With foothing words renew'd, him thus accosts. I fee thou know'ft what is of ufe to know, What best to say canft say, to do canft do; Thy actions to thy words accord, thy words To thy large heart give utterance due, thy heart 10

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thy heart

Contains of good, wife, juft, the perfect shape.] Milton, no doubt, by the word shape intended to exprefs the meaning of the Greek term dea, but in my opinion it does not at all come up to it, and seems rather harsh and inelegant. There are words in all languages, which cannot well be tranflated without lofing much of their beauty, and even fome of their meaning; of this fort I take the word idea to be. Tully renders it by the

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word species with as little fuccefs in
my opinion as Milton has done
here by his Englfh fhape. Thyer.
Of good, wife, just, the perfect shape.
I fhould rather think it exprefied
from the perfecta forma honeftatis,
and the forma ipfa honefti of Ci-
cero. De Fin. II. 15. Habes undi-
que expletam et perfectam, Tor-
quate, formam honeftatis, &c.
Off. I. 5. Formam quidem ipfam,
Marce fili, et tanquam faciem bo
nefti vides; quæ, fi oculis cernere-
tur &c. And the more, because
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