h Arch-Angel soon drew nigh,
Not in ial, but as Man
Clad to meet Man; over his lucid Armes [ 240 ]
A militarie Vest of purple flowd
Livelier the graine
Of Sarra, worn by Kings and heros old
In time of truce; Iris the wooff;
arrie helme unbuckld shewd him prime [ 245 ]
In Manh ended; by his side
As in a glistering Zodiac he Sword,
Satans dire dread, and in he Spear.
Adam boe
Inclind not, but hus declard. [ 250 ]
Adam, no Preface needs:
Sufficient t th,
tence ransgress,
Defeated of his seisure many dayes
Givn t repent, [ 255 ]
And one bad act h many deeds well done
Mayst cover: hy Lord appeasd
Redeem te from Deaths rapacious claime;
But longer in to dwell
Permits not; to remove thee I am come, [ 260 ]
And send to till
t takn, fitter Soile.
, for Adam at the newes
-strook ood,
t all his senses bound; Eve, who unseen [ 265 ]
Yet all
Discoverd soon tire.
O unexpected stroke, h!
Must I thus leave
tive Soile, these happie alks and Shades, [ 270 ]
Fit of Gods? wo spend,
Quiet t of t day
t must be mortal to us both. O flours,
t never e grow,
My early visitation, and my last [ 275 ]
At Eevn, wender hand
From t opning bud, and gave ye Names,
o the Sun, or ranke
Your tribes, and er from t?
tly nuptial Bowre, by mee adornd [ 280 ]
it to sig; from thee
, and wher wander down
Into a loo this obscure
And wilde, her Aire
Less pure, accustomd to immortal Fruits? [ 285 ]
errupted milde.