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    Better end heer unborn. Why is life givn

    To be thus wrested from us? rather why

    Obtruded on us thus? who if we knew

    What we receive, would either not accept [ 505 ]

    Life offerd, or sooo lay it down,

    Glad to be so dismist in peace.  thus

    Th Image of God in maed once

    So goodly a, though faultie since,

    To susightly sufferings be debast [ 510 ]

    Under inhuman pains? Why should not Man,

    Retaining still Divine similitude

    In part, from such deformities be free,

    And for his Makers Image sake exempt?

    Thir Makers Image, answerd Michael, then [ 515 ]

    Forsook them, when themselves they villifid

    To serve ungovernd appetite, and took

    His Image whom they servd, a brutish vice,

    Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve.

    Therefore so abject is thir punishment, [ 520 ]

    Disfiguring not Gods liken<q></q>ess, but thir own,

    Or if his likeness, by themselves defact

    While they pervert pure Natures healthful rules

    To loathsom siess, worthily, sihey

    Gods Image did not reveren themselves. [ 525 ]

    I yield it just, said Adam, and submit.

    But is there yet no other wabbr></abbr>y, besides

    These painful passages, how we may e

    To Death, and mix with our atural dust?

    There is, said Michael, if thou well observe [ 530 ]

    The rule of not too much, by temperaaught

    In what thou eatst and drinkst, seeking from the<mark></mark>nce

    Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight,

    Till many years over thy head return:

    So maist thou live, till like ripe Fruit thou drop [ 535 ]

    Into thy Mothers lap, or be with ease

    Gatherd, not harshly pluckt, for death mature:

    This is old age; but then thou must outlive

    Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will ge

    To witherd weak and gray; thy Sehen [ 540 ]

    Obtuse, all taste of pleasure must foe,

    To what thou hast, and for the Aire of youth

    Hopeful and cheerful, in thy blood will reigne

    A melancholly damp of cold and dry

    To weigh thy spirits down, and last e [ 545 ]

    The Balme of Life. To whom our Aobbr></abbr>r.

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