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“and Sin, and, true to his policy, flat-

‘his reason, but that his object was to

pose that, in all their ings, hon. gentlemen may. j read the best known comedy of pont It is a comedy that was borrowed from the Frertch,, and the humor of it consists in this, that the hero gets.

himself, by reckless statements, into!

scrape after scrape: but still his con-” fidence in his extraordinary resources, his imaginative power of concocting, is so great that he never doubts for.

one minute that he can lie himself out ” of any scrape that he gets into. Well, :

he was a feather-brained man of fash- :

ion; but you will remember that when.

the grand divan of demons takes place ,as recorded in ‘Paradise Lost,” Satan stands before them and declares he is going to deliver them out of hell, and that he will alone first | explore the way. (‘He meets Death

ters them. Then he visits the country of Chaos and Old Night, and promises to reduce the new created worid to

darkness, which promise he has, of

course, no intention of keeping. Then

he meets the Angel of the Sun, to whom he represents himself as what he is not in order to gain certaif:

information, and then he transforms himself completely, and is foundvat.

the éar of Eve whispering suggestions to her. In the assumed character of the Serpent, he assures her that he :

has eaten the forbidden fruit him- ?

self, which he has not, and that: if she will eat of it, she will become a god, which he knows shé6 will not.

Then, when brought before : Michael and charged with his unlawful intrusion into Paradisé, he first says that :

his object was to fiy from pain. When taunted with being the first to: fly from pain he replies that that was: not:

avoid hazarding his armies in unitrod.

ways and first spy out himself the new created world. Now, mark the way Milton, the’ wrout Puritan poet, makes the Archangel Michael reply:

“To say and straight unsay, pretending first F “ise to fly pain, professtng next “SpY, à “ee no rt but lat