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    This Paradise I give thee, t it thine

    To Till and keep, and<u>藏书网</u> of the Fruit to eate: [ 320 ]

    Of every Tree that in the Garden growes

    Eate freely with glad heart; fear here h:

    But of the Tree whose operatis

    Knowledg of good and ill, which I have set

    The Pledge of thy Obediend thy Faith, [ 325 ]

    Amid the Garden by the Tree of Life,

    Remember what I warhee, shun to taste,

    And shuter sequence: for know,

    The day thou eatst thereof, my sole and

    Tra, iably thou shalt dye; [ 330 ]

    From that day mortal, and th<mark>.?</mark>is happie State

    Shalt loose, expelld from heo a World

    Of woe and sorrow. Sternly he pronouncd

    The rigid interdi, which resounds

    Yet dreadful in mine eare, though in my choice [ 335 ]

    Not to incur; but soon his cleer aspect

    Returnd and gracious purpose thus renewd.

    Not ohese fair bounds, but all the Earth

    To thee and to thy Race I give; as Lords

    Possess it, and all things that <cite>?99lｉb.</cite>therein live, [ 340 ]

    Or live in Sea, or Aire, Beast, Fish, and Fowle.

    In signe whereof each Bird a behold

    After thir kindes; I bring<var></var> them to receave

    From thee thir Names, and pay thee fealtie

    With low subje; uand the same [ 345 ]

    Of Fish within thir watry residence,

    Not hither summond, sihey ot ge

    Thir Element to draw the thinner Aire.

    As thus he spake, each Bird a behold

    Approag two and two, These c low [ 350 ]

    With blandishment, each Bird stoopd on his wing.

    I namd them, as they passd, and uood

    Thir Nature, with suowledg God endud

    My sudden apprehension: but in these

    I found not what <var></var>me thought I waill; [ 355 ]

    And to the Heavnly vision thus presumd.

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