O Sons, like one of us Man is become

    to knoaste [ 85 ]

    Of t defended Fruit; but let

    , and Evil got,

    o have known

    Good by it self, and Evil not at all.

    s, and prayes contrite, [ 90 ]

    My motions in hey move,

    I know, how variable and vain

    Self-left. Least therefore his now bolder hand

    Reacree of Life, and eat,

    And live for ever, dream at least to live [ 95 ]

    For ever, to remove him I decree,

    And send o till

    taken, fitter soile.

    Mic hou in charge,

    take to the Cherubim [ 100 ]

    t the Fiend

    Or in beo invade

    Vacant possession som nerouble raise:

    the Paradise of God

    it remorse drive out the sinful Pair, [ 105 ]

    From h unholie, and denounce

    to to thence

    Perpetual banis. Yet least t

    At tence rigorously urgd,

    For I bend and ears [ 110 ]

    Beerror hide.

    If patiently they obey,

    Dismiss t disconsolate; reveale

    to Adam w sure dayes,

    As I sen, intermix [ 115 ]

    My Covnant in the womans seed renewd;

    So send t in peace:

    And on t side of the Garden place,

    rance up from Eden easiest climbes,

    Cche flame [ 120 ]

    ide ,

    And guard all passage to tree of Life:

    Least Paradise a receptacle prove

    to Spirits foule, and all my trees thir prey,

    itoln Fruit Man once more to delude. [ 125 ]

    h Archangelic Power prepard

    For s descent,  bright

    Of chful Cherubim; four faces each

    hir shape

    Spangld hose [ 130 ]

    Of Argus, and more o drouze,

    Coral Reed

    Of e Rod. Mean while

    to resalute t

    Leucoth fresh dews imbalmd [ 135 ]

    t Matron Eve

    hir Orisons, and found,

    Strengto spring

    Out of despaire, joy, but  linkt;

    o Eve his welcome words renewd. [ 140 ]

    Eve, easily may Fait, t all

    the good which we enjoy, from heavn descends;

    But t from us ougo heavn

    So prevalent as to concerne the mind

    Of God , or to incline his will, [ 145 ]

    o belief may seem; yet this will Prayer,

    Or one s sigh, up-borne

    Evn to t of God. For since I saught

    By Prayer tie to appease,

    Kneeld and before , [ 150 ]

    Met I saw him placable and mild,

    Bending his eare; perswasion in me grew

    t I was urnd

    o my brest, and to my memorie

    thy Seed shall bruise our Foe; [ 155 ]

    minded in dismay, yet now

    Assures me t tterness of death

    Is past, and hee,

    Eve righer of all Mankind,

    Mothee [ 160 ]

    Man is to live, and all things live for Man.

    to wh sad demeanour meek.