O Sons, like one of us Man is become

    to knoaste [ 85 ]

    Of t defended Fruit; but let

    , and Evil got,

    o have known

    Good by it self, and Evil not at all.

    s, and prayes contrite, [ 90 ]

    My motions in hey move,

    I know, how variable and vain

    Self-left. Least therefore his now bolder hand

    Reacree of Life, and eat,

    And live for ever, dream at least to live [ 95 ]

    For ever, to remove him I decree,

    And send o till

    taken, fitter soile.

    Mic hou in charge,

    take to the Cherubim [ 100 ]

    t the Fiend

    Or in beo invade

    Vacant possession som nerouble raise:

    the Paradise of God

    it remorse drive out the sinful Pair, [ 105 ]

    From h unholie, and denounce

    to to thence

    Perpetual banis. Yet least t

    At tence rigorously urgd,

    For I bend and ears [ 110 ]

    Beerror hide.

    If patiently they obey,

    Dismiss t disconsolate; reveale

    to Adam w sure dayes,

    As I sen, intermix [ 115 ]

    My Covnant in the womans seed renewd;

    So send t in peace:

    And on t side of the Garden place,

    rance up from Eden easiest climbes,

    Cche flame [ 120 ]

    ide ,

    And guard all passage to tree of Life:

    Least Paradise a receptacle prove

    to Spirits foule, and all my trees thir prey,

    itoln Fruit Man once more to delude. [ 125 ]

    h Archangelic Power prepard