ts and drinks they had sufficd [ 450 ]
Not burdnd Nature, sudden mind arose
In Adam, not to let th occasion pass
Given Conference to know
Of thir being [ 455 ]
ho dwell in heavn, whose excellence he saw
transcend forms
Divine effulgence, whose high Power so far
Exceeded human, and his wary speech
to ter he framd. [ 460 ]
Inant h God, now know I well
to man,
Under saft
to enter, and ts to taste,
Food not of Angels, yet accepted so, [ 465 ]
As t more not seem
At s to w compare?
to whe winged hierarch replid.
O Adam, one Almightie is, from whom
All to urn, [ 470 ]
If not depravd from good, created all
Suco perfection, one first matter all,
Indud h various forms, various degrees
Of substance, and in t live, of life;
But more refind, more spiritous, and pure, [ 475 ]
As neerer to or neerer tending
Eacive Sphears assignd,
till body up to spirit work, in bounds
Proportiond to eac
Springs ligalk, from the leaves [ 480 ]
More aerie, last t consummate floure
Spirits odorous breat
Mans nouris, by gradual scale sublimd
to vital Spirits aspire, to animal,
to intellectual, give both life and sense, [ 485 ]
Fansie and understanding, whe Soule
Reason receives, and reason is her being,
Discursive, or Intuitive; discourse
Is oftest yours, tter most is ours,
Differing but in degree, of kind the same. [ 490 ]
onder not t God for you saw good
If I refuse not, but convert, as you,
to proper substance; time may come when men
iticipate, and find
No inconvenient Diet, nor too light Fare: [ 495 ]
And from triments perhaps
Your bodies may at last turn all to Spirit,
Improvd by tract of time, and wingd ascend
Et choice
here or in heavnly Paradises dwell; [ 500 ]
If ye be found obedient, and retain
Unalterably firm ire
hose progenie you are. Mean while enjoy
Your fill e
Can comprehend, incapable of more. [ 505 ]
to wriarch of mankind replid,
O favourable spirit, propitious guest,
ell taug mig
Our knoure set
From center to circumference, whereon [ 510 ]
In contemplation of created things
By steps o God. But say,
meant t caution joind, if ye be found
Obedient? can obedience then
to [ 515 ]
, and placd us here
Full to tmost measure of w bliss
human desires can seek or apprehend?