«Beast now with beast ‹gan war, and fowl with fowl, and fish with fish (…)»

Book IX

«Carnal desire inflaming: he on Eve Began to cast lascivious eyes; she him As wantonly repaid; in lust they burn,

«Heaven is for thee to high to know what passes there; be lowly wise; Think only what concerns thee and

«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

«Who can in reason, then, or right, assume Monarchy over such as live by right His equals, if in power

«Drew after him the third part of Heaven’s host»

«Nor knew I not To be, both will and deed, created free.»