Page 224 - El paraiso perdido

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Man 's transgression known. the guardián Angels forsake
Pardise, and return up ío Hevaen lo approve their vigilance,
and are approved: God declaring that the entrance of Sotan
could not he bv them prevented. He sends bis Son to judge the
transgressors; who descends, and gives sentence accordingly;
¡lien, in pitv, clothes them hoth, and reascends. Sin and Dreatlt
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sitting lili then al the gates of He//, by wondrous sympathy
Jeeling the success of Salan in this new World, and the sin by Los hechos que por odio y por desprecio
Man there eommited. reso/ve to sit no longer conjined. in Hell, Satán hizo en Edén, y de qué modo
bilí lo follow Salan, their si re. up to the place of Man: to make A Eva. como Sierpe, pervirtió
the h'ay easier from Hell to this World to and fw. they pave a Y ella a Adán a comer el fatal fruto
broad highway or bridge over Chaos, according to the track
that Satan first mude: then. preparing for Earth, they meet
him. proud of his success, returning lo Hell: their mutual
gratulation. Salan arrives al Pandemónium: in J'uH assembly
relates with boasing his success againsl Man: instead of
applause is entertained with a general hiss by all his audience,
transformed. with himself also. suddenly into Serpents,
according to his doom given in Paradise: then. deluded with a
show of the Forbidden Tree springing up befare them. they.
greedilv reaching to take of the fruit, chew dust and the final
victorv of his Son over them. and the renewing of all things;
bul. for the presen!, commands his Angels to make severa/
alteralions in the Heavens and Elements. Adam. more and
more perceiving his fallen condition. heavily bewaits, rejeets
the condolement of Eve: she per si sis, and al length appeases
him: them. to evade the curse likely to fall on their ojfspring,
proposes to Adam violent ways: which he approves not, bul.
conceiving better hope, puts her in mind o f the late promise
mude them, that her seed should be revengend on the Serpent,
and exhorts her, with him, to seek peace of the offended Deity
by repentance and supplication.

MEANWHILE the hcinous and dcspiteful act
Of Satan done in Paradise. and how
He. in the Serpent. had perverted Eve.
Her husband she. to taste the fatal fruit.