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    O Sons, like one of us Man is bee

    To know both Good and Evil, since his taste [ 85 ]

    Of that defended Fruit; but let him boast

    His knowledge of Good lost, and Evil got,

    Happier, had sufficd him to have known

    Good by it self, and Evil not at all.

    He sorrows now, repents, and prayes trite, [ 90 ]

    My motions in him, lohen they move,

    His heart I know, how variable and vain

    Self-left. Least therefore his now bolder hand

    Reach also of the Tree of Life, a,

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

    For ever, to remove him I decree,

    And send him from the Garden forth to Till

    The Ground whence he was taken, fitter soile.

    M.９９ｌib?ichael, this my behest have thou in charge,

    Take to thee from among the Cherubim [ 100 ]

    Thy choice of flaming Warriours, least the Fie<mark>藏书网</mark>nd

    Or in behalf of Man, or to invade

    Vat possession som rouble raise:

    Hast thee, and from the Paradise of God

    Without remorse drive out the sinful Pair, [ 105 ]

    From hallowd ground th unholie, and denounce

    To them and to thir Progenie from thence

    Perpetual banishment. Yet least they faint

    At the sad Sentence rigorously urgd,

    For I behold them softnd and with tears [ 110 ]

    Bewailing thir excess, all terror hide.

    If patiently thy bidding they obey,

    Dismiss them not dissolate; reveale

    To Adam what shall e in future dayes,

    As I shall thee enlighten, intermix [ 115 ]

    My ant in the womans seed renewd;

    So send them forth, though sorrowing, yet in peace:

    And on the East side of the Garden place,

    Where entrance up from Eden easiest climbes,

    Cherubic watch, and of a Sword the flame [ 120 ]

    Wide waving, all approach farr off tht,

    And guard all passage to the Tree of Life:

    Least Paradise a receptacle prove

    To Spirits foule, and all my Trees thir prey,

    With whose stoln Fruit Man once more to delude. [ 125 ]

    He ceasd; and th Argelic Power prepard

    For swift dest, with him the Cohort bright

    Of watchful Cherubim; four faces each

    Had, like a double Janus, all thir shape

    Spangld with eyes more numerous then those [ 130 ]

    us, and more wakeful then to drouze,

    Charmd with Arcadian Pipe, the Pastoral Reed

    Of Hermes, or his opiate Rod. Mean while

    To resalute the World with sacred Light

    Leucothea wakd, and with fresh dews imbalmd [ 135 ]

    The Earth, when Adam and first Matron Eve

    Had ended now thir Orisons, and found,

    Strength added from above, new hope t

    Out of despaire, joy, but with fear yet linkt;

    Wh<bdi>藏书网</bdi>ich thus to Eve his wele words renewd. [ 140 ]

    Eve, easily may Faith admit, that all

    The good which we enjoy, from Heavn desds;

    But that from us ought should asd to Heavn

    So prevalent as to e the mind

    Of God high-blest, or to ine his will, [ 145 ]

    Hard to belief may seem; yet this will Prayer,

    Or one short sigh of humane breath, up-borne

    Evn to the Seat of God. For since I saught

    By Prayer th offended Deitie to appease,

    Kneeld and before him humbld all my heart, [ 150 ]

    Methought I saw him placable and mild,

    Bending his eare; perswasion in me grew

    That I was heard with favour; peace returnd

    Home to my brest, and to my memorie

    His promise, that thy Seed shall bruise our Foe; [ 155 ]

    Which then not minded in dismay, yet now

    Assures me that the bitterness of death

    Is past, and we shall live. Whence Haile to thee,

    Eve rightly calld, Mother of all Mankind,

    Mother of all things living, since by thee [ 160 ]

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

    To whom thus Eve with sad demeanour meek.

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