What next I bring shall please thee, be assurd,

Whose fellowship therefore unmeet for thee

Intended thee, for trial onely brought,

Under his forming hands a Creature grew, [ 470 ]

By Nature as in aide, and closd mine eyes.

Mine eyes he closd, but opn left the Cell [ 460 ]

Still glorious before whom awake九_九_藏_书_网 I stood;

And in her looks, which from that time infusd

Which it had long stood under, streind to the highth

And be so minded still; I, ere thou spakst,

But suddenly with flesh filld up and heald:

Abstract as in a transe methought I saw,

And Life-blood streaming fresh; wide was the wound,

O九_九_藏_书_网f Fancie my internal sight, by which

Manlike, but different sex, so lovly faire,

As with an object that excels the sense,

My Image, not imparted to the Brute,

The spirit of love and amorous delight.

Though sleeping, where I lay, and saw the shape

Of sleep, which instantly fell on me, calld

And no s九*九*藏*书*网uch companie as then thou sawst

Hee ended, or I heard no more, for now

Dazld and spent, sunk down, and sought repair

Knew it not good for Man to be alone, [ 445 ]

Which thou hast rightly namd, but of thy self,

Mean, or in her summd up, in her containd

My earthly by his Heavnly overpowerd,

And finde thee

九九藏书网

knowing not of Beasts alone,

Thus farr to try thee, Adam, I was pleasd,

And into all things from her Aire inspird

The Rib he formd and fashond with his hands;

Thy likeness, thy fit help, thy other self, [ 450 ]

Who stooping opnd my left side, and took [ 465 ]

Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before, [ 475 ]

Expre九九藏书ssing well the spirit within thee free, [ 440 ]

Thy wish, exactly to thy hearts desire.

Good reason was thou freely shouldst dislike,

In that celestial Colloquie sublime, [ 455 ]

To see how thou couldst judge of fit and meet:

That what seemd fair in all the World, seemd now

From thence a Rib, with cordial spirits warme,