# Quote — John Milton, Paradise Lost

> Will ye submit your necks, and chuse to bend
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> The supple knee? ye will not, if I trust
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> To know ye right, or if ye know your selves
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> Natives and Sons of Heav'n possest before
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> By none, and if not equal all, yet free,
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> Equally free; for Orders and Degrees
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> Jarr not with liberty, but well consist.
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> Who can in reason then or right assume
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> Monarchie over such as live by right...

- Author: [John Milton](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton.md)
- Book: [Paradise Lost](https://www.leafyquotes.com/john-milton/paradise-lost.md)
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> So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd
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> His nostril wide into the murky air,
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> Sagacious of his quarry from so far.

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> Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye,
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> In every gesture dignity and love.

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> To know
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> That which before us lies in daily life
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> Is the prime wisdom.

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