The Tempter all impassiond thus began.

Is open? or will God incense his ire

Rather your dauntless vertue, whom the pain

Of highest Agents, deemd however wise.

How should ye? by the Fruit? it gives you Life

Of Death denounct, whatever thing Death be, [ 695 ]

New part puts on, and as to passioｈttps://ｒｅad•９9ｃｓｗ•ｃｏｍn movd,

Not just, not God; not feard then, nor obeyd:

Meant mee, by ventring higher then my Lot. [ 690 ]

Somtimes in highth began, as no delay [ 675 ]

And life more perfet have attaind then Fate

Of Preface brooking through his Zeal of Right.

Shall that be shut to Mhttps://ｒeａｄ.９９csｗ•ｃｏman, which to the Beast

Those rigid threats of Death; ye shall not Die: [ 685 ]

To Knowledge, By the Threatner, look on mee,

To Man, and indignation at his wrong,

To happier life, knowledge of Good and Evil;

Within me cleere, not onely to discerne

Things in thir Causes, but to trace thhtｔpｓ://rｅaｄ•99cｓｗ.coｍe wayes

In Athens or free Rome, where Eloquence

She scarse had said, though brief, when now more bold

As when of old som Orator renound [ 670 ]

Mee who have touchd and tasted, yet both live,

For such a petty Trespass, and not praise

Deterrd not from atchieving what might leade

Motion, each ahttps://read.99csw.comct won audience ere the tongue,

Flourishd, since mute, to som great cause addrest,

Mother of Science, Now I feel thy Power [ 680 ]

The Tempter, but with shew of Zeale and Love [ 665 ]

God therefore cannot hurt ye, and be just; [ 700 ]

Queen of this Universe, doe not believe

Raisd, as of som great matteｒｅaｄ.99cｓw.ｃｏmr to begin.

Stood in himself collected, while each part,

Your feare it self of Death removes the feare.

Fluctuats disturbd, yet comely and in act

O Sacred, Wise, and Wisdom-giving Plant,

Of good, how just? of evil, if what is evil

Be real, why not known, since easier shunnd?

So standing, moving, or to highth upgrown