Semblance, and in thy Beauties heavnly Ray

I spard not, for such pleasure till that hour

Longing and envying stood, but could not reach.

Equivalent or second, which compeld

United I beheld; no Fair to thine

Thy utmost reach or Adams: Round the Tree

Powerful perswaders, quicknd at the scent

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Help to disburden Nature of her Bearth.

To satisfie the sharp desire I had

Serpent, thy overpraising leaves in doubt [ 615 ]

Or Earth, or Middle, all things fair and good; [ 605 ]

As leaves a greater store of Fruit untoucht,

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Still hanging incorruptible, till men

Of that alluring fruit, urgd me so keene.

Sovran of Creatures, universal Dame.

Considerd all things visible in Heavn,

To whom the wilie Adder, blithe and glad. [ 625 ]

Of tasting those fair Apples, I resolvd [ 585 ]

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But say, where grows the Tree, from hence how far?

Not to deferr; hunger and thirst at once,

The vertue of that Fruit, in thee first provd:

All other Beasts that saw, with like desire

For high from ground the branches would require [ 590 ]

In Paradise, and various, yet unknown

Strange alteration 九-九-藏-書in me, to degree

Tempting so nigh, to pluck and eat my fill [ 595 ]

I turnd my thoughts, and with capacious mind

Mee thus, though importune perhaps, to come [ 610 ]

Wanted not long, though to this shape retaind.

Of Reason in my inward Powers, and Speech [ 600 ]

For many are the Trees of God that grow

Sated at lehttps://read.99csw.comngth, ere long I might perceave

Amid the Tree now got, where plenty hung

About the mossie Trunk I wound me soon,

At Feed or Fountain never had I found.

Thenceforth to Speculations high or deep

Yet more amazd unwarie thus replyd.

To us, in such abundance lies our choice, [ 620 ]

Grow up to thir provision, and more hands