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    So spake eneral Mother, and with eyes

    Of jugal .ra unreprovd,

    And meek surrender, half imbrag leand

    On our first Father, half her swelling Breast [ 495 ]

    Naked met his uhe flowing Gold

    Of her loose tresses hid: he in delight

    Both of her Beauty and submissive Charms

    Smild with superior Love, as Jupiter

    On Juno smiles, when he impregns the Clouds [ 500 ]

    That shed May Flowers; and pressd her Matron lip

    With kisses pure: aside the Devil turnd

    For envie, yet with jealous leer maligne

    Eyd them askance, and to himself thus plaind.

    Sight hateful, sight tormenting! thus these two [ 505 ]

    Imparadist in one anothers arms

    The happier Eden, shall enjoy thir fill

    Of bliss on bliss, while I to Hell am thrust,

    Where her joy nor love, but fierce desire,

    Among our other torments not the least, [ 510 ]

    Still unfulfilld with pain of longing pines;

    Yet let me not fet what I have gaind

    From thir own mouths; all is not theirs it seems:

    Oal Tree there stands of Knowledge calld,

    Forbiddeo taste: Knowledge forbiddn? [ 515 ]

    Suspicious, reasonless. Why should thir Lord

    Ehem that?  it be sin to know,<var></var>

    it be death? and do they onely stand

    By Ignorance, is that thir happie state,

    <cite>..</cite>The proof of thir obediend thir faith? [ 520 ]

    O fair foundation laid whereon to build

    Thir ruine! Hence I will excite thir minds

    With more desire to know, and to reject

    Envious ands, ied with designe

    To keep them low whom knowledge might exalt [ 525 ]

    Equal with Gods; aspiring to be such,

    They taste and die: what likelier  ensue?

    But first with narrow search I must walk round

    This Garden, and no er leave unspid;

    A ce but ce may lead where I may meet [ 530 ]

    Some wandring Spirit of He<mark></mark>avn, by Fountain side,

    Or in thick shade retibbr>..</abbr>rd, from him to draw

    What further would be learnt. Live while ye may,

    Yet happie pair; enjoy, till I return,

    Short pleasures, for long woes are to succeed. [ 535 ]

    So saying, his proud step he sful turnd,

    But with sly circumspe, and began

    Through wood, through waste, ore hill, ore dale his roam.

    Mean while in utmost Longitude, where Heavn

    With Earth and O meets, the setting Sun [ 540 ]

    Slowly desded, and with right aspect

    Against the eastern Gate of Paradise

    Leveld his eevning Rayes: it was a Rock

    Of Alablaster, pild up to the Clouds,

    spicuous farr, winding with one ast [ 545 ]

    Accessible from Earth, orance high;

    The rest was craggie cliff, that

    Still as it rose, impossible to climbe.

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