Of Paradise for Hell, hope here to taste

And strength, of courage hautie, and of limb

What hither brought us, hate, not love, nor hope [ 475 ]

Her graceful Innocence, her every Aire

Angelic, but more soft, and Feminine,

Thoughts, whither have ye led me, with what sweet

Occasion which now smiles, behold alone [ 480 ]

That 九*九*藏*书*网space the Evil one abstracted stood

His Malice, and with rapine sweet bereavd

Forth issuing on a Summers Morn to breathe

The Woman, opportune to all attempts,

Thus earlie, thus alone; her Heavnly forme

And tortures him now more, the more he sees

Though in mid Heavn, soon ended his delight,

What pleasing seemd,九*九*藏*书*网 for her now pleases more,

Infeebld me, to what I was in Heavn.

Foe not informidable, exempt from wound,

If chance with Nymphlike step fair Virgin pass,

Where Houses thick and Sewers annoy the Aire,

Of mischief, gratulating, thus excites.

She most, and in her look summs all Delight.

I not; so much hath Hell debasd, www.99lib.netand paine

Compulsion thus transported to forget

But the hot Hell that alwayes in him burnes,

Save what is in destroying, other joy

This Flourie Plat, the sweet recess of Eve

Adjoynd, from each thing met conceaves delight,

Of pleasure not for him ordaind: then soon [ 470 ]

Her Husband, for I view far round, not nigh,

As on九*九*藏*书*网e who long in populous City pent, [ 445 ]

His fierceness of the fierce intent it brought:

Stupidly good, of enmitie disarmd, [ 465 ]

Among the pleasant Villages and Farmes

Heroic built, though of terrestrial mould, [ 485 ]

From his own evil, and for the time remaind

Of pleasure, but all pleasure to destroy,

Or Dairie, each rural www.99lib.netsight, each rural sound;

Such Pleasure took the Serpent to behold [ 455 ]

Fierce hate he recollects, and all his thoughts

The smell of Grain, or tedded Grass, or Kine, [ 450 ]

Whose higher intellectual more I shun,

Of guile, of hate, of envie, of revenge;

To me is lost. Then let me not let pass

Of gesture or lest action overawd [ 460 ]