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1
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Describing Satan on his throne

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“High on a throne of royal state”, “Satan exalted sat, by merit raised / To that bad eminence”

2
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Try to validate and justify his throne

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“safe unenvied throne / Yielded with full consent.”, “who here / will envy whom the highest place exposes / Foremost to stand against the Thunderer’s aim”

3
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Proposing war not giving an option for peace

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“Whether of open war or covert guile, / We now debate; who can advise, may speak”

4
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Moloch - what could be worse than to stay in hell

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“what can be worse / Than to dwell here, driven out from bliss, condemned / In this abhorred deep to utter woe”

5
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Moloch - thinks they are strong enough to fight God

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“Our power sufficient to disturb his Heav’n”

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Moloch - aim is revenge

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“if not victory is yet revenge”

7
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Belial - false

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“he seemed / For dignity composed … / But all was false and hollow”

8
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Belial - describing his lazy nature

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“his thought were low, / To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds / Timorous and slothful”

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Belial - saying how untouchable God is

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“our great enemy / All incorruptible, would on his throne / Sit unpolluted, and th’ ethereal mold / Incapable of stain”

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Belial - describing how bad death is

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“for who would lose, / Though full of pain, this intellectual being, … / swallowed up and lost, / In the wide womb of uncreated night, / Devoid of sense or motion?

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Belial - directly addressing Moloch’s argument, saying it isn’t worse to stay in hell

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“Is this then worst, / Thus sitting, thus consulting, thus in arms?”

12
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Belial’s tripartite construction on what would be worse

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“Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved / … this would be worse.”

13
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Belial proposes inaction

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“Better these than worse / By my advice”

14
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Belial’s well spoken but empty words

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“with words clothes in reason’s garb / Counseled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth / Not Peace”

15
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Mammon - mocking worshipping God though hymns

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“celebrate his throne / With warbled hymns, and to his Godhead sing / Forced hallelujahs”

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Mammon - renouncing servitude in heaven and proposing to stay free in hell

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“Eternity so spent in worship paid / To whom we hate”, “Hard liberty before the easy yoke / Of servile pomp”

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Mammon - proposes imitating God’s light

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“As he our darkness, cannot we his light, / Imitate when we please?”

18
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comparing the demon’s speech to the wind

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“as when hollow rocks retain / The sound of blust’ring winds, which all night long / Had roused the sea, now with hoarse cadence lull / Seafaring men o’erwatched”

19
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Beezlebub’s physical state

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“in his rising seemed / A pillar of state”, “Majestic though in ruin”, “Atlantean shoulders fit to bear / The weight of mightiest monarchies

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Beezlebub countering Mammon saying they were free in hell

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“In strictest bondage” “captive multitude”, “but over Hell extend / His empire, and with iron scepter rule / Us here, as with his golden those in Heav’n”

21
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Beezlebub proposing they find an easier option

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“What if we find / Some easier enterprise?”

22
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Beezlebub mentioning the creation of humans

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“To be created like to us, though less / in power and excellence, but favoured more / Of him who rules above”