In every Bush and Brake, where hap may finde [ 160 ]

Bitter ere long back on it self recoiles;

Nor nocent yet, but on the grassie Herbe

The season, prime for sweetest Sents and Aires: [ 200 ]

I dread, and to elude, thus wrapt in mist

Of Creatures wanting voice, that done, partake

Of midnight vapor glide obscure, and prie

O foul descent! that I who erst contended

Let it; 九九藏書I reck not, so it light well aimd,

Subjected to his service Angel wings, [ 155 ]

With grateful Smell, forth came the human pair

Fearless unfeard he slept: in at his Mouth

Of Heavn, this Man of Clay, Son of despite,

Since higher I fall short, on him who next

Thir morning incense, when all things that breath,

Thir earthy Charge: Of these the vigilance

With act intell九九藏書igential; but his sleep [ 190 ]

To basest things. Revenge, at first though sweet,

To hide me, and the dark intent I bring.

In Labyrinth of many a round self-rowld,

His midnight search, where soonest he might finde

The Devil enterd, and his brutal sense,

Whom us the more to spite his Maker raisd

Thir growing work: for much thir work outgrew

The hands dispatch of two 九*九*藏*書Gardning so wide.

This essence to incarnate and imbrute,

That to the hight of Deitie aspird;

From dust: spite then with spite is best repaid.

To the Creator, and his Nostrils fill

But what will not Ambition and Revenge

With Gods to sit the highest, am now constraind

Like a black mist low creeping, he held on [ 180 ]

Into a Beast, and mixt with bestial slime, [ 165 ]

Th九_九_藏_書en commune how that day they best may ply

And Eve first to her Husband thus began.

Not yet in horrid Shade or dismal Den, [ 185 ]

Now when as sacred Light began to dawne

Provokes my envie, this new Favorite [ 175 ]

His head the midst, well stord with suttle wiles:

Disturbd not, waiting close th approach of Morn.

So saying, through each Thicket Danck or Drie,

From th Earths grhｔｔpｓ://ｒｅａｄ•９９ｃｓw•cｏｍeat Altar send up silent praise [ 195 ]

And flaming Ministers to watch and tend

Descend to? who aspires must down as low

The Serpent: him fast sleeping soon he found

And joind thir vocal Worship to the Quire

In heart or head, possessing soon inspird

In Eden on the humid Flours, that breathd

As high he soard, obnoxious first or last [ 170 ]

The Serpent sleeping, in whose mazie foulds