Save what is in destroying, other joy

Heroic built, though of terrestrial mould, [ 485 ]

That space the Evil one abstracted stood

Adjoynd, from each thing met conceaves delight,

His fierceness of the fierce intent it brought:

I not; so much hath Hell debasd, and paine

Of guile, of hate, of envie, of revenge;

Her graceful hｔｔｐｓ://rｅａｄ.９9ｃsｗ.ｃｏｍInnocence, her every Aire

Angelic, but more soft, and Feminine,

Fierce hate he recollects, and all his thoughts

From his own evil, and for the time remaind

Of mischief, gratulating, thus excites.

Whose higher intellectual more I shun,

Her Husband, for I view far round, not nigh,

And tortures him now more九九藏書, the more he sees

As one who long in populous City pent, [ 445 ]

His Malice, and with rapine sweet bereavd

Of pleasure, but all pleasure to destroy,

Forth issuing on a Summers Morn to breathe

Where Houses thick and Sewers annoy the Aire,

Foe not informidable, exempt from wound,

The smell of Grain, or tedded Grass, or Kin九_九_藏_書e, [ 450 ]

Of pleasure not for him ordaind: then soon [ 470 ]

This Flourie Plat, the sweet recess of Eve

And strength, of courage hautie, and of limb

Thoughts, whither have ye led me, with what sweet

But the hot Hell that alwayes in him burnes,

Or Dairie, each rural sight, each rural sound;

What pleasing seemd, for her now九_九_藏_書 pleases more,

Such Pleasure took the Serpent to behold [ 455 ]

Compulsion thus transported to forget

If chance with Nymphlike step fair Virgin pass,

Of gesture or lest action overawd [ 460 ]

Stupidly good, of enmitie disarmd, [ 465 ]

Thus earlie, thus alone; her Heavnly forme

Of Paradise for Hell, hope here to taste

What hitheｒｅａｄ•９9csw.ｃｏｍr brought us, hate, not love, nor hope [ 475 ]

To me is lost. Then let me not let pass

Among the pleasant Villages and Farmes

The Woman, opportune to all attempts,

Though in mid Heavn, soon ended his delight,

Infeebld me, to what I was in Heavn.

Occasion which now smiles, behold alone [ 480 ]

She most, and in her look summs all Delight.