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Podcast: A New Voice of Freedom
Episode: Season 3 Podcast 233, Milton's Paradise Lost Bk IX, Pt XXII, "Temptation of Eve Pt D"
Description: Milton’s Paradise Lost Bk IX, Pt XXIV, “Temptation of Eve Pt D” In the preface to Book IX, Milton presents the following abstractthe serpent, now grown bolder, with many wiles and arguments induces her at length to eat, He continues his deceitful argument.Shall that be shut to Man, which to the BeastIs open? or will God incense his ireFor such a pretty Trespass, and not praiseRather your dauntless virtue, whom the painOf Death denounc’t, whatever thing Death be,De...