... it when one can not repent? O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul, that struggling to be free, art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees; And, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the newborn babe! All may be well. This is Claudius ... the house, And angels officed all. All's Well that Ends Well, Act III, Scene 2. Sleep in peace and wake in joy; Good angels guard thee. Richard III, Act V, Scene 3. Her that loves him with that excellence That angels love good men with. Henry VIII, Act II, Scene 2. 2.3.3 Satan and Fallen Angels Angels are...

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... . He is not now, as when on Jordan's sand The joyful people thronged to see him land, Covering the beach, and blackening all the strand; But, like the Prince of Angels, from his height, Comes tumbling downward with diminished light (ll. 262-274) There is a great deal of irony in this, warning of Achitophel's deceptive persuasion. Hoping to convince Absalom of ... of biblical history, that ethic obviously contradicts the moral codes and world order implied by God's written law. The end of Achitophel's description is the simile "like the Prince of Angels," used to epitomize David's decline...

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