I found not what me thought I wanted still; [ 355 ]

From thee thir Names, and pay thee fealtie

Yet dreadful in mine eare, though in my choice [ 335 ]

The day thou eatst thereof, my sole command

Of Fish within thir watry residence,

With low subjection; understand the same [ 345 ]

九_九_藏_書My sudden apprehension: but in these

With blandishment, each Bird stoopd on his wing.

Of every Tree that in the Garden growes

Knowledg of good and ill, which I have set

Transgrest, inevitably thou shalt dye; [ 330 ]

Thir Element to draw the thinner Aire.

Not to incur;ｈｔtpｓ://read.９9csw.ｃom but soon his cleer aspect

To Till and keep, and of the Fruit to eate: [ 320 ]

Possess it, and all things that therein live, [ 340 ]

Not onely these fair bounds, but all the Earth

Or live in Sea, or Aire, Beast, Fish, and Fowle.

Of woe and sorrow. Sternly he pronou九_九_藏_書ncd

But of the Tree whose operation brings

Thir Nature, with such knowledg God endud

After thir kindes; I bring them to receave

Amid the Garden by the Tree of Life,

Not hither summond, since they cannot change

To thee and to thy Race I give; as Lords

In signe whereof each Bird and 九-九-藏-書Beast behold

Remember what I warne thee, shun to taste,

From that day mortal, and this happie State

And shun the bitter consequence: for know,

This Paradise I give thee, count it thine

As thus he spake, each Bird and Beast behold

Returnd and gracious purpose thus renewd.

And to the Heavnly v九九藏書ision thus presumd.

Approaching two and two, These cowring low [ 350 ]

Eate freely with glad heart; fear here no dearth:

Shalt loose, expelld from hence into a World

The Pledge of thy Obedience and thy Faith, [ 325 ]

I namd them, as they passd, and understood

The rigid interdiction, which resounds