Gifts of a Prince, then at no dearer time
Could he reward my gift, if any now
Among my followers would be my friend,
That he might pass forth upward from these bounds,
Had power with him that, winged, he might fly,
Borne on the clouds, to where stand Adam and Eve
Wrought on earth's kingdom, girt with happiness,
While we are cast down into this deep dale.
Now these are worthier to the Lord, may own
The blessing rightly ours in Heaven's realm,
This the design apportioned to mankind.
Sore is my mind and rue is in my thought
That ever henceforth they should possess Heaven.
If ever any of you in any way
May turn them from the teaching of God's word
They shall be evil to Him, and if they
Break His commandment, then will He be wroth
Against them, then will be withdrawn from them
Their happiness, and punishment prepared,
Some grievous share of harm. Think all of this,
How to deceive them. In these fetters then
I can take rest, if they that kingdom lose.
He who shall do this hath prompt recompense
Henceforth for ever of what may be won
Of gain within these fires. I let him sit
Beside myself.'
Then God's antagonist arrayed himself
Swift in rich arms. He had a guileful mind.
The hero set the helmet on his head
And bound it fast, fixed it with clasps. He knew
Many a speech deceitful, turned him thence,
Hardy of mind, departed through Hell's doors,
Striking the flames in two with a fiend's power;
Would secretly deceive with wicked deed
Men, the Lord's subjects, that misled, forlorn,
To God they became evil. So he fared,
Through his fiend's power, till on earth he found
Adam, God's handiwork, with him his wife,
The fairest woman.
(The numbers refer to pages. Biblical references are not listed.)
Herodotus, 156, 173, 185.
Hesiod, 142, 144, 178, 179, 184, 186.
Homer, 9, 12, 27, 34-36, 120, 121, 124,
125, 126, 128, 129, 130, 131, 133, 135,
136, 137, 139, 142, 146, 147, 150, 152,
154, 155, 156, 157, 159, 161, 163, 167,
169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 176, 177,
178, 179, 181, 182, 183, 187, 188.
Horace, 17, 27, 128, 133, 134, 137, 154,
159, 161, 164, 166, 171, 172, 173, 180,
182, 183, 184, 187, 190.
Hunt, Leigh, 144, 177.
Jebb, 146-147.
Jerome, 140, 168.
Jonson, 133, 153, 160, 186, 187.
Juvenal, 27, 168, 179.
Landor, 34-36, 121, 122, 124, 129, 138,
145, 146, 147, 148, 150, 151, 152, 153,
154, 157, 159, 161, 164, 166, 167, 168,
173, 174, 175, 178-179, 188.
Livy, 128, 138, 142, 153, 165, 169.
Longfellow, 30, 133, 137, 148, 189.
Lowell, 30-34, 125, 129, 131, 134, 137,
164, 175, 179, 182, 186.
Marlowe, 33, 134.
Marvell, 160.
Masson, 18-29, 131.
Mazzoni, 17.
Merrill, 136.
More, Henry, 158.
Murray, J. A. H., 135, 144, 148, 160.
Newton, Thomas, 134, 140, 148, 151,
154, 155, 156, 182.
Orm, 122.
Orosius, 168.
Orphica, 184.
Ovid, 27, 120, 133, 136, 141, 147, 151,
154, 155, 156, 157, 159, 160, 168, 171,
173, 174, 175, 179, 184, 188, 189.
Pattison, 135.
Pausanias, 142.
Persius, 27.
Petrarch, 8, 27.
Phalereus, 16.
Pindar, 13, 130, 147, 171, 174, 180.
Plato, 10, 16, 27, 145, 163, 171, 173, 183,
187.
Pliny, 159.
Plutarch, 134, 143.
Pope, 175, 181.
Propertius, 174.
Scott, 144, 148, 158, 174.
Seneca, 150, 156.
Shakespeare, 27, 31, 34, 36, 37, 40, 122,
124, 125, 126, 128, 129, 134, 138, 142,
143, 145, 151, 153, 155, 158, 161, 163,
164, 166, 168, 169, 171, 172, 173, 176,
177, 178, 180, 181, 183, 184, 189.
Shelley, 177, 186.
Sidney, 121, 175.
Silius Italicus, 152.
Sophocles, 13, 16, 27, 128, 134, 142, 189.
Spenser, 27, 31, 34, 43, 123, 129, 132,
136, 138, 142, 143, 151, 154, 158, 160,
161, 170, 173, 179, 180, 182, 183, 184,
185, 186.
Statius, 144, 150, 179, 183.
Sylvester, 27.
Tasso, 12, 17, 27, 120, 125, 136, 143, 144,
Tennyson, 129, 147, 155, 187.
Theocritus, 121, 141.
Thomson, 36.
Thucydides, 145.
Todd, 162, 174.
Trench, 151.
Virgil, 12, 27, 36, 39, 120, 121, 122, 124,
127, 128, 129, 130, 132, 133, 136, 137,
139, 143, 144, 148, 150, 151, 153, 156,
157, 158, 159, 161, 162, 163, 164, 165,
166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173,
174, 175, 176, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182,
183, 184, 185, 186, 187, 189.
Webster, Daniel, 143, 157.
Wordsworth, 36, 43, 137, 176-177, 186.
Wyclif, 138.
Xenophanes, 184.
Xenophon, 10.
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