For good unknown, sure is not had, or had

Under this ignorance of good and Evil,

The good befalln him, Author unsuspect,

Was death invented? or to us denid

Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat

Hath tasted, envies not, but brings with joy [ 770 ]

Of this fair Fruit, our doom is, we shall die.

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Forbids us good, forbids us to be wise?

Or fansied so, through expectation high

Of vertue to make wise: what hinders then

By thee communicated, and our want: [ 755 ]

In plain then, what forbids he but to know,

Of Knowledge, knowledge both of good and evil;

To reach, and feed at once both Bodie and Mind?

Thy praise hee also九*九*藏*書 who forbids thy use, [ 750 ]

The guiltie Serpent, and well might, for Eve [ 785 ]

What fear I then, rather what know to feare

So saying, her rash hand in evil hour [ 780 ]

Friendly to man, farr from deceit or guile.

In Fruit she never tasted, whether true

This intellectual food, for beasts reservd?

Forbids us then to taste, but his forbidding

九-九-藏-書Though kept from Man, and worthy to be admird,

Fair to the Eye, inviting to the Taste,

Conceales not from us, naming thee the Tree

Of knowledg, nor was God-head from her thought. [ 790 ]

Our inward freedom? In the day we eate

The Tongue not made for Speech to speak thy praise:

Irrational till then. For us alone

And knows, and speaks, and reasons, a九_九_藏_書nd discerns, [ 765 ]

Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluckd, she eat:

How dies the Serpent? hee hath eatn and lives,

Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe,

Whose taste, too long forborn, at first assay

Gave elocution to the mute, and taught

And yet unknown, is as not had at all.

Great are thy Vertues, doubtless, best of Fruits. [ 745 ]

Such p九九藏書rohibitions binde not. But if Death [ 760 ]

Bind us with after-bands, what profits then

That all was lost. Back to the Thicket slunk

Intent now wholly on her taste, naught else

Of God or Death, of Law or Penaltie? [ 775 ]

Commends thee more, while it inferrs the good

For Beasts it seems: yet that one Beast which first

Regarded, such delight till then, as seemd,