o a shadie bank,

    t roof imbowrd

    he Couch,

    Pansies, and Violets, and Asphodel, [ 1040 ]

    And  softest lap.

    t

    took largely, of tual guilt the Seale,

    till dewie sleep

    Oppressd thir amorous play. [ 1045 ]

    Soon as t fallacious Fruit,

    t ing vapour bland

    About ts  powers

    Made erre, was now exhald, and grosser sleep

    Bred of unkindly fumes, h conscious dreams [ 1050 ]

    Encumberd, nohey rose

    As from unrest, and eacher viewing,

    Soon found thir minds

    as a veile

    hem from knowing ill, was gon, [ 1055 ]

    Just confidence, and native righteousness

    And  t

    to guiltie s his Robe

    Uncoverd more, so rose te strong

    -lap [ 1060 ]

    Of Pean Dalilah, and wakd

    Srengtitute and bare

    Of all tue: silent, and in face

    Confounded long te, as struckn mute,

    till Adam, t less t, [ 1065 ]

    At lengtterance to traind.

    O Eve, in evil  give eare

    to t false orm, of

    to counterfet Mans voice, true in our Fall,

    False in our promisd Rising; since our Eyes [ 1070 ]

    Opnd we find indeed, and find we know

    Bot, and Evil got,

    Bad Fruit of Knoo know,

    hus, of honour void,

    Of Innocence, of Faitie, [ 1075 ]

    Our ed Ornaments noaind,

    And in our Faces evident the signes

    Of foul concupiscence; wore;

    Even s of evils; of t

    Be sure the face [ 1080 ]

    h joy

    And rapture so oft behose heavnly shapes

    ill dazle nohir blaze

    Insufferably brig I here

    In solitude live savage, in some glade [ 1085 ]

    Obscurd, rable

    to Starr or Sun-lighir umbrage broad,

    And brown as Evening: Cover me ye Pines,

    Ye Cedars, h innumerable boughs

    hem more. [ 1090 ]