Greedily s restraint,

    And kne eating Deatiate at length,

    And nd as h ine, jocond and boon,

    to her self she pleasingly began.

    O Sovran, vertuous, precious of all trees [ 795 ]

    In Paradise, of operation blest

    to Sapience, o obscurd, infamd,

    And t let o no end

    Created; but h my early care,

    Not  Song, each Morning, and due praise [ 800 ]

    Send til burden ease

    Of to all;

    till dieted by ture

    In knohings know;

    t t give; [ 805 ]

    For  bin t  here

    t to thee I owe,

    Best guide; not follohee, I had remaind

    In ignorance, t isdoms way,

    And givst access, t sire. [ 810 ]

    And I per; heavn is high,

    e to see from tinct

    Eacher care perhaps

    May ed from continual ch

    Our great Forbidder, safe h all his Spies [ 815 ]

    About  to Adam in

    So him make known

    As yet my co partake

    Full ,

    But keep the odds of Knowledge in my power [ 820 ]

    it Copartner? so to add s

    In Femal Sex, to draw his Love,

    And render me more equal, and perhaps,

    A t undesireable, somtime

    Superior: for inferior who is free? [ 825 ]

    t w if God have seen

    And Deathen I shall be no more,

    And Adam o another Eve,

    Sinct;

    A deato then I resolve, [ 830 ]

    Adam sh me in bliss or woe:

    So dear I love  hs

    I could endure,  him live no life.