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Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve [ 1140 ]

To whom then first incenst Adam replid,

With me, as I besought thee, when that strange [ 1135 ]

Him who to worth in Women overtrusting

Lets her Will rule; restraint she will not brook,

Immutable when thou wert lost, not I, [ 1165 ]

Of mine to thee, ingrateful Eve, exprest

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Command me absolutely not to go,

No evil durst attempt thee, but I rue [ 1180 ]

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Was I to have never parted from thy side?

The Faith they owe; when earnestly they seek

Matter of glorious trial; and perhaps

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The danger, and the lurking Enemie

Of all our good, shamd, naked, miserable.

Is this the Love, is this the recompence

What words have past thy Lips, Adam severe,

That lay in wait; beyond this had bin force,

That errour now, whichttps://read.99csw.comh is become my crime,

Of wandring, as thou callst it, which who knows

Going into such danger as thou saidst?

I warnd thee, I admonishd thee, foretold

Either to meet no danger, or to finde

But confidence then bore thee on, secure [ 1175 ]

And am I now upbraided, as the cause

Nay, didst permit, approve, and fair dismiss.

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Would thou hadst hearknd to my words, and staid

To whom soon movd with touch of blame thus Eve.

Hadst thou bin firm and fixt in thy dissent, [ 1160 ]

No ground of enmitie between us known,

Shee first his weak indulgence will accuse.

The fruitless hours, but neither self-condemning,

I also errd in overmuch admiring

Neither had I transgressd, nor thou with mee.

Thus they in mutual accusation spent

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As good have grown there still a liveless Rib.

Fraud in the Serpent, speaking as he spake; [ 1150 ]

What seemd in thee so perfet, that I thought

And left to her self, if evil thence ensue, [ 1185 ]

Such proof, conclude, they then begin to faile.

Remaind still happie, not as now, despoild

Imputst thou that to my default, or will [ 1145 ]