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    Wonder not, sovran Mistress, if perhaps

    Thou st, who art sole Wonder, much less arm

    Thy looks, the Heavn of mildness, with<var>.</var> disdain,

    Displeasd that I approach thee thus, and gaze [ 535 ]

    Insatiate, I thus single, nor have feard

    Thy awful brow, more awful thus retird.

    Fairest resemblance of thy Maker faire,

    Thee all things living gaze on, all things thine

    By gift, and thy Celestial Beautie adore [ 540 ]

    With ravishment beheld, there best beheld

    Where universally admird; but here

    In this enclosure wild, these Beasts among,

    Beholders rude, and shallow to dise

    Half what in thee is fair, one man except, [ 545 ]

    Who sees thee? (and what is one?) who shouldst be seen

    A Goddess among Gods, adord and servd

    By Angels numberless, thy daily Train.

    So glozd the Tempter, and his Proem tund;

    Into the Heart of Eve his words made way, [ 550 ]

    Though at the voice much marveling; at length

    Not unamazd she thus in answer spake.

    Wha<dfn></dfn>t may this mean? Language of Man pronounct

    By Tongue of Brute, and human sense exprest?

    The first at lest of these I thought denid [ 555 ]

    To Beasts, whom God on thir Creation-Day

    Created mute to all articulat sound;

    The latter I demurre, for in thir looks

    Much reason, and in thir as oft appeers.

    Thee, Serpent, suttlest beast of all the field [ 560 ]

    I knew, but not with human voidud;

    Redouble then this miracle, and say,

    How camst thou speakable of mute, and how

    To me so friendly grown above the rest

    Of brutal kind, that daily are in sight? [ 565 ]

    Say, for such wonder claims attention due.

    To whom the guileful Tempter thus replyd.

    Empress of this fair World, resple Eve,

    Easie to mee it is to tell thee all

    What thou andst and right thou shouldst be obeyd: [ 570 ]

    I was at first as other Beasts that graze

    The trodden Herb, of abject thoughts and low,

    As was my food, nht but food disd

    Or Sex, and apprehended nothin<var>?</var>g high:

    Till on a day roaving the field, I cd [ 575 ]

    A goodly Tree farr distant to behold

    Loaden with fruit of fairest colours mixt,

    Ruddie and Gold: I nearer drew to gaze;

    When from the boughes a savorie odour blown,

    Grateful to appetite, more pleasd my sense, [ 580 ]

    Then smell of sweetest Fenel or the Teats

    Of Ewe oat dropping with Milk at Eevn,

    Unsuckt of Lamb or Kid, that tend thir play.

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