Book 1
"Nor had they yet among the sons of Eve Got them new names, till wand'ring o'er the earth Through God's high suff'rance for the trial of man" (1.364-6).
Book 2
"a Goddess armed Out of thy head I sprung! Amazement seized All the' Host of Heav'n. Back they recoiled afraid At first and called me Sin, and for a sign Portentous held me" (2.757-61).
Book 3
"So will fall He and his faithless progeny. Whose fault? Whose but his own? Ingrate! He had of Me All he could have; I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall" (3.95-9).
Book 4
"Flours of all hue, and without thorn the rose" (4.256)
Book 5
"advise him of his happy state— Happiness in his power left free to will, Left to his own free will, his will though free Yet mutable" (5.234-7).
Book 6
"The monstrous sight Strook them with horror backward but far worse Urged them behind: headlong themselves they threw Down from the verge of Heav'n" (6.862-5).
Book 7
"and now Led on, yet sinless, with desire to know What nearer might concern him" (7.60-2)
Book 8
"Joy thou In what He gives to thee, this Paradise And thy fair Eve; Heav'n is for thee too high To know what passes there; be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being" (8.170-4)
Book 9
"Daughter of God and Man, immortal Eve, For such thou art, from sin and blame entire" (9.291-2)
Book 10
"No Decree of mine Concurring to necessitate his Fall, Or touch with lightest moment of impulse His free Will, to her own inclining left In even scale" (10.43-7)