...Canticles is part of what the Narrator claims that 'God declares / Pure' (4.746-7) and then insists: Farr be it, that I should write thee sin or blame, Or think...holiest place, Perpetual Fountain of Domestic sweets. (4.758-60) After Eve and Adam eat of the fruit, it will be necessary to deal with the break up of this...

...offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range, by thee Founded...holiest place, Perpetual fountain of domestic sweets, 760 Whose bed is undefiled and chaste pronounced, Present, or past, as saints and patriarchs used....

...driv'n from men Among the bestial herds to range, by thee Founded in Reason, Loyal, Just, and Pure, 755 Relations dear, and all the Charities Of Father, Son,...holiest place, Perpetual Fountain of Domestic sweets, 760 Whose bed is undefil'd and chaste pronounc't, Present, or past, as Saints and Patriarchs us'd....

...veneration. Only the dissolute and the foolish scoff at it. By theo adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee Founded...charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known." MILTON. A quaint old author wrote a humorous piece entitled " Geographical Description of the Isle...

...sole propriery0 In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range, by thee Founded...loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities0 Of father, son, and brother first were known. Far be it, that 1 should write thee sin or...

...offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else! By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded...reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all charities Of Father, son, and brother, first were known. Far be it that I should write thee sin or...

...Milton faces as a fallen poet is how to write about such intimate lovemaking and mutuality in Eden: "Far be it, that I should write thee sin or blame. / Or think thee unbefitting holiest place" (4.758-9). Milton draws on the literary language of secular love poetry ( "Here Love his golden shafts...

...the origins of society in the "mysterious Law" of "wedded Love": "by thee," rhapsodizes the narrator, "Relations dear, and all the Charities / Of Father, Son and Brother first were known" (IV: 750—57). What Paradise Lost here gives with one hand it takes away with the other: elevating...

...offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driv'n from men Among the bestial herds to range, by thee Founded...Charities Of Father, Son and Brother first were known. (11. 750-57) These opening lines of the "hymn" do not extol all matrimony, only the "wedded Love" in...