Confounded long they sate, as struckn mute,

Took largely, of thir mutual guilt the Seale,

Even shame, the last of evils; of the first

Just confidence, and native righteousness

Made erre, was now exhald, and grosser sleep

Be sure then. How shall I behold the face [ 1080 ]

Of Innocence, of Faith, of Puritie, [ 1075 ]

To guiltie shame hee coverd, but his Robe

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Her hand he seisd, and to a shadie bank,

Of Philistean Dalilah, and wakd

Bad Fruit of Knowledge, if this be to know,

In solitude live savage, in some glade [ 1085 ]

And Hyacinth, Earths freshest softest lap.

Henceforth of God or Angel, earst with joy

And rapture so oft beheld? those heavnly shapes

The solace of thir sin, till dewie sleep

To Starr or Sun-light, spread thｔtｐ://ｗww.9９lib•nｅｔhir umbrage broad,

Soon as the force of that fallacious Fruit,

Oppressd them, wearied with thir amorous play. [ 1045 ]

He led her nothing loath; Flours were the Couch,

And in our Faces evident the signes

Will dazle now this earthly, with thir blaze

Obscurd, where highest Woods impenetrable

Had shadowd them from knowing ill, was gon, [ 1055 ]

Shorn of his strength, They destitute and bhtｔp://ｗww.９9ｌｉb.ｎeｔare

Soon found thir Eyes how opnd, and thir minds

Which leaves us naked thus, of Honour void,

Both Good and Evil, Good lost, and Evil got,

About thir spirits had plaid, and inmost powers

Pansies, and Violets, and Asphodel, [ 1040 ]

And brown as Evening: Cover me ye Pines,

O Eve, in evil hour thou didst give eare

Of all thir vertue: silent, and in face

As from unrest, and each the other viewi九_九_藏_书_网ng,

And honour from about them, naked left

Ye Cedars, with innumerable boughs

There they thir fill of Love and Loves disport

How darknd; innocence, that as a veile

Insufferably bright. O might I here

Till Adam, though not less then Eve abasht, [ 1065 ]

Uncoverd more, so rose the Danite strong

To that false Worm, of whomsoever taught

Herculean Samson from the Harlot-lap [ 1060 ]

Our wonted Ornaments now so

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Bred of unkindly fumes, with conscious dreams [ 1050 ]

Encumberd, now had left them, up they rose

Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowrd

Opnd we find indeed, and find we know

At length gave utterance to these words constraind.

Of foul concupiscence; whence evil store;

To counterfet Mans voice, true in our Fall,

That with exhilerating vapour bland

False in our promisd Rising; since our Eyes [ 1070 ]