John Milton, Paradise Lost (1674 version)

Satan to the devils, Bk I

 “Awake, arise, or be forever fallen!”

Adam to Eve, Bk 9

“How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost,

Defac’t, deflow’r’d, and now to death devote!”

And later …

       “O Eve, in evil hour thou didst give ear

       To that false Worm … true in our Fall,

       False in our promis’d Rising …”

Aphra Behn, The Rover (1677)

Angellica Bianca on “falling for” Willmore:

Oh, how I fell, like a long worshiped idol,

Discovering all the cheat.

Jonathan Swift, “Corinna” (1711)

This day (the year I dare not tell)

Apollo played the midwife’s part;

Into the world Corinna fell,

       And he endowed her with his art.

Anne Finch, “The Introduction” (wr late 17th-c; prt. 1903)

How are we fal’n, fal’n by mistaken rules?

       And education’s, more than nature’s, fools …