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    To satisfie the sharp desire I had

    Of tasting those fair Apples, I resolvd [ 585 ]

    Not to deferr; <q></q>hunger and thirst at once,

    Powerful perswaders, quid at the st

    Of that alluring fruit, urgd me so keene.

    About the mossie Trunk I wound me soon,

    Fh from ground the branches would require [ 590 ]

    Thy utmost reach or Adams: Round the Tree

    All other Beasts that saw, with like desire

    Longing and envying stood, but could not reach.

    Amid the Tree now got, where plenty hung

    Tempting so nigh, to plud eat my fill [ 595 ]

    I spard not, for such pleasure till that hour

    At Fee<q></q>d or Fountain never had I found.

    Sated at length, ere long I might perceave

    Straeration io degree

    Of Reason in my inowers, and Speech [ 600 ]

    Wanted not long, though to this shape retaind.

    Theh to Speculations high or deep

    I turnd my thoughts, and with capaind

    >.</dfn>onsiderd all things visible in Heavn,

    Or Earth, or Middle, all things fair and good; [ 605 ]

    But all that fair and good in thy Divine

    Semblance, and in thy Beauties heavnly Ray

    United I beheld; no Fair to thi<big>藏书网</big>ne

    Equivalent or sed, whipeld

    Mee thus, though importune perhaps, to e [ 610 ]

    And gaze, and worship thee ht declard

    Sovran of Creatures, universal Dame.

    So talkd the spirited sly Snake; and Eve

    Yet more amazd unwarie thus replyd.

    Serpent, thy overpraising leaves in doubt [ 615 ]

    The vertue of that Fruit, in thee first provd:

    But say, where grows the Tree, from hence how far?

    For many are the Trees of God that grow

    In Paradise, and various, yet unk?9９lib.nown

    To us, in such abundance lies our choice, [ 620 ]

    As leaves a greater store of Fruit untoucht,

    Still hanging incorruptible, till men

    Grow up to thir provision, and more hands

    Help to disburden Nature of her Bearth.

    To whom the wilie Adder, blithe and glad. [ 625 ]

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