3.    For where is she so fair whose uneared womb
      Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?
      Or who is he so fond will be the tomb
      Of his self-love to stop posterity? (5-8)

3a.    For where is she so fair whose uneared womb
      Disdains the tillage of thy husbandry?

Listen to Marlowe Society's reading of Quote 3a.

3b.    Or who is he so fond will be the tomb
      Of his self-love to stop posterity?

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Listen to Douglas Hodge's reading of Quote 4.

5.    Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul
      Of the wide world dreaming on things to come,
      Can yet the lease of my true love control,
      Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.

Listen to Gielgud's reading of Quote 5.

Listen to Marlowe Society's reading of Quote 5.

Listen to Callow's reading of Quote 5.

7.    But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee
      Came not all Hell broke loose? is pain to them
      Less pain, less to be fled, or thou than they
      Less hardy to endure? Courageous Chief,
      The first in flight from pain, had'st thou alleg'd
      To thy deserted host this cause of flight,
      Thou surely had'st not come sole fugitive.

7a.   But wherefore thou alone? Wherefore with thee
      Came not all Hell broke loose?

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7b.                         is pain to them
      Less pain, less to be fled,

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7c.                          or thou than they
      Less hardy to endure? Courageous Chief,

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7d.                       this cause of flight,
      Thou surely had'st not come sole fugitive.

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Listen to DF's reading of Quote 7d.

8.                       But wherefore thou alone?
      Wherefore with thee came not all Hell broke loose?
      Is pain to them less pain, less to be fled,
      Or thou than they less hardy to endure?
      Courageous Chief, the first in flight from pain,
      Had'st thou alleg'd to thy deserted host
      This cause of flight, thou surely had'st not come
      Sole fugitive.

8a.                    But wherefore thou alone?
      Wherefore with thee came not all Hell broke loose?

Listen to JH's reading of Quote 8a.

8b.    Is pain to them less pain, less to be fled,

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8c.    Or thou than they less hardy to endure?
      Courageous Chief,

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8d.    This cause of flight, thou surely had'st not come
      Sole fugitive.

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Listen to DF's reading of Quote 8d.

15.                 Him the Almighty Power
      Hurled headlong flaming from th'etherial sky
      With hideous ruin and combustion down
      To bottomless perdition, there to dwell
      In adamantine chains and penal fire,
      Who durst defy th'Omnipotent to arms.
            (Paradise Lost, I: 44-49)

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