S despaire
Broke off t; so mucs
ertaind, as did h pale.
But Adam hing swayd, [ 1010 ]
to better tentive minde
Labouring o Eve replid.
Eve, tempt of life and pleasure seems
to argue in thing more sublime
And excellent t temnes; [ 1015 ]
But self-destruction t, refutes
t excellence t in thee, and implies,
Not tempt, but anguis
For loss of life and pleasure overlovd.
Or if t deatmost end [ 1020 ]
Of miserie, so to evade
tie pronounct, doubt not but God
hen so
to be forestalld; muc Death
So snatc exempt us from the paine [ 1025 ]
e are by doom to pay; rats
Of contumacie
to make deat us seek
Some safer resolution, whinks
I o minde h heed [ 1030 ]
Part of our Sentence, t thy Seed shall bruise
ts eous amends, unless
Be meant, wure, our grand Foe
Satan, w rivd
Against us t: to crush his head [ 1035 ]
ould be revenge indeed; w
By deat on our selves, or childless days
Resolvd, as t; so our Foe
S ordaind, and wee
Instead shall double ours upon our heads. [ 1040 ]