But of this Tree we may not taste nor touch;

Compact of unctuous vapor, which the Night [ 635 ]

Fruitless to mee, though Fruit be here to excess,

Of each Tree in the Garden we may eate, [ 660 ]

Law to our selves, our Reason is our Law.

Kindld through agitation to a Flame,

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Empress, the way is readie, and not long,

Of blowing Myrrh and Balme; if thou accept

To whom the Tempter guilefully replid. [ 655 ]

My conduct, I can bring thee thither soon. [ 630 ]

Sole Daughter of his voice; the rest, we live

To九九藏书网 mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy

The credit of whose vertue rest with thee,

Led Eve our credulous Mother, to the Tree

Yet Lords declard of all in Earth or Aire?

In tangles, and made intricate seem strait,

So glisterd the dire Snake, and into fraud

Lead then, said Eve. Hee l九-九-藏-书-网eading swiftly rowld

There swallowd up and lost, from succour farr.

Which oft, they say, some evil Spirit attends

Brightns his Crest, as when a wandring Fire

Of prohibition, root of all our woe; [ 645 ]

God so commanded, and left that Command

Condenses, and the cold invirons round,

Beyond a row of Myrtles, on a Flat,

Of all these Garden Trees ye shall not eate,

But of the Fruit of this fair Tree amidst

Serpent, we might have spard our coming hither,

The Garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eate

Fast by a Fountain, one small Thicket past

Indeed? hath God then said that of th九_九_藏_书_网e Fruit

Thereof, nor shall ye touch it, least ye die.

Misleads th amazd Night-wanderer from his way [ 640 ]

To Boggs and Mires, and oft through Pond or Poole,

Wondrous indeed, if cause of such effects. [ 650 ]

Hovering and blazing with delusive Light,

Which when she saw, thus to her guide she spake.