Firm , yet possible to swerve,
Since Reason not impossibly may meet [ 360 ]
Some specious object by the Foe subornd,
And fall into deception unaware,
Not keeping strictest ch, as she was warnd.
Seek not temptation to avoide
ere better, and most likelie if from mee [ 365 ]
t: trial .
ouldst tancie, approve
First ther who can know,
Not seeing ttempted, ?
But if trial unsought may finde [ 370 ]
Us bot,
Go; for tay, not free, absents thee more;
Go in tive innocence, relie
On of vertue, summon all,
For God to, do thine. [ 375 ]
So spake triarc Eve
Persisted, yet submiss, t, replid.
ithus forewarnd
C t reasoning words
touc our trial, , [ 380 ]
May finde us both perhaps farr less prepard,
t
A Foe so proud the weaker seek,
So bent, the more shall shame him his repulse.
thus saying, from her husbands hand her hand [ 385 ]
Soft s
Oread or Dryad, or of Delias traine,
Betook o t Delias self
In gate surpassd and Goddess-like deport,
t as sh Bow and Quiver armd, [ 390 ]
But ools as Art yet rude,
Guiltless of fire .
to Pales, or Pomona, thus adornd,
Likeliest she seemd, Pomona when she fled
Vertumnus, or to Ceres in her Prime, [ 395 ]
Yet Virgin of Proserpina from Jove.
look his Eye pursud
Delig desiring more ay.