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Arbortext Isodraw软件是美国参数技术公司（PTC)旗下动态信息交付软件Arbortext的组成部分[1]
。它是一款专业的技术插图软件。
Arbortext ISODRAW软件介绍
Arbortext Isodraw提供 2D 技术插图和智能图形，以优化包含在装配说明、零件目录、操作者手册和维修手册、培训文档等中的产品信息和维修信息。利用 Arbortext IsoDraw，可以从头开始或通过原始的 2D 和 3D CAD 系统创建和更新高质量的技术插图，而且整个过程可以自动进行。此外，Arbortext IsoDraw 与最新的 CAD 数据保持关联，这样一来，当在整个产品生命周期中发生工程设计变更时，可以自动更新插图[2]
下面是一些Isodraw的作品展示[3]
Arbortext ISODRAW功能和优势
1.缩短信息的上市时间 - 在更短的时间内产生更多的插图。2.降低翻译成本 - 用插图取代冗长复杂的文字。3.提高插图画家的工作效率 – 通过与原始 CAD 文件之间保持关联，自动执行插图的创建和更新过程。4.消除劳动密集型的格式化工作 – 自动以多种交付格式（包括打印件、交互式和 Web 媒体）发布信息。使用Arbortext(R) IsoDraw7.0 的10 大原因
业界一流的最新版解决方案加入了一些令人惊艳的全新功能，可以满足所有的技术插图与动画需求，是插图制作人员的最佳「工作台」。以下摘要列出7.0 版的部分新增功能与特色。
1. 一种工具满足所有的技术插图与技术动画需求
技术制图人员所需的功能，Arbortext IsoDraw 7.0 样样具备，保证让您迅速、正确地完成工作。插图制作人员可以制作2D 与3D 插图和动画， 或者结合2D 与3D 动画建立复合动画。
Arbortext IsoDraw 7.0 是唯一能够混合2D 与3D 插图和动画的工具。因此，您可以续继使用现有的档案，并于日后加入丰富的3D 内容。
2. 整合Pro/ENGINEER?
Arbortext IsoDraw 7.0 可以直接读取Pro/ENGINEER 档案，不需事先转换成IGES。整合方案简化了插图编制流程，而且增强了设计变更时的插图更新能力。
3. 广泛支持多种CAD 格式
PTC 新增了标准信息的传输格式支持，因此，Arbortext IsoDraw7.0 可以处理3D CAD 数据。所有的Arbortext IsoDraw 7.0 功能都支持下列格式：IGES、VRML、STEP、VDA、SAT 和Parasolid。
4. 每个3D 工作阶段都有多种档案与对象的关联连结
Arbortext IsoDraw 7.0 可以从多种CAD 档案建立技术插图，这对采用供应链作业模式而必须使用各种CAD 格式的公司来说，特别实用。系统将自动依据最新的工程设计重新产生所有的技术插图与动画，进而大幅加快及简化变更管理。
5. 2D 动画
现在，您可以建立2D 动画强调重要的插图组件，或者建立电路示意图动画，如管线图。此外，2D 动画也可以连结原始的CAD模型，以于设计变更时自动更新技术插图和动画。
6. 3D 插图和动画
有了Arbortext IsoDraw 7.0，插图制作人员可以迅速、轻松地建立3D 插图和3D 动画，避免使用冗长的文字叙述，让技术发行物更容易阅读。使用者可以操纵处理3D 插图，并从多种角度检视同一个对象；还能互动操作3D 动画中的3D 对象、检视其它
透过作用区连结的信息，或者检视建立动画的完整程序。
7. 发行前动画预览
Arbortext IsoDraw 7.0 随附Arbortext IsoView 7.0 限时预览授权，插图制作人员可于建立动画时预览效果。
8. 符合业界标准
Arbortext IsoDraw 7.0 支持WebCGM 2.0 与S CGM 设定档。CGM 是重要的向量图形业界标准。S CGM 设定档则是S1000D 标准的最新规格，用于指定「航天业」与「国防业」的信息管理实务。除SVG 汇出外，Arbortext IsoDraw 现在加入SVG 汇入支持。SVG 是与XML 兼容的图形业界标准。
9. 9 种语言支持
Arbortext IsoDraw 7.0 支持9 种语言：英文、法文、德文、西班牙文、意大利文、日文、韩文、繁体中文和简体中文。
10. 软件授权
Arbortext IsoDraw 7.0 以软件授权架构(FLEXlm?) 取代原本的硬件授权方式。Arbortext IsoDraw 7.0 随附单机版与网络版两种授权。现有的维护服务客户都将自动取得Arbortext IsoDraw 7.0，其中包含如何使用新授权架构安装软件的详细说明。
Isodraw软件官方宣传册
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企业信用信息Satan having compast the Earth, with meditated guile returns as a mist by Night into Paradise, enters into the Serpent sleeping. Adam and Eve in the Morning go forth to thir labours, which Eve proposes to divide in several places, each labouring apart: Adam consents not, alledging the danger, lest that Enemy, of whom they were forewarn'd, should attempt her found alone: Eve loath to be thought not circumspect or firm enough, urges her going apart, the rather desirous to make tryal Adam
at last yields: The Ser his subtle approach, first gazing, then speaking, with much flattery extolling Eve above all other Creatures. Eve wondring to hear the Serpent speak, asks how he attain'd to human speech and such unders the Serpent answers, that by tasting of a certain Tree in the Garden he attain'd both to Speech and Reason, till then void of both: Eve requires him to bring her to that Tree, and finds it to be the Tree of Knowledge forbidden: The Serpent now grown bolder, with many wiles and arguments induces
she pleas'd with the taste deliberates a while whether to impart thereof to Adam or not, at last brings him of the Fruit, relates what perswaded her to eat thereof: Adam at first amaz'd, but perceiving her lost, resolves through vehemence of lov and extenuating the trespass, eats also of the Fruit: The Effects
they seek to cover thir then fall to variance and accusation of one another.
NO more of talk where God or Angel Guest
With Man, as with his Friend, familiar us'd
To sit indulgent, and with him partake
Rural repast, permitting him the while
discourse unblam'd: I now must
Those N foul distrust, and breach
Disloyal on the part of Man, revolt,
And disobedience: On the part of Heav'n
Now alienated, distance and distaste,
Anger and just rebuke, and judgement giv'n, [ 10 ]
That brought ,
Sinne and her shadow Death, and Miserie
Deaths Harbinger:
Not less but more Heroic then
Of stern Achilles on
pursu'd [ 15 ]
Thrice Fugitive about Troy W or rage
disespous'd,
Or Neptun's ire or Juno's, that so long
style I can obtaine [ 20 ]
Of my , who deignes
Her nightly visitation unimplor'd,
And dictates to me slumb'ring, or inspires
Easie my unpremeditated Verse:
Since first this
for Heroic Song [ 25 ]
Pleas'd me long choosing,
by Nature to
, hitherto the onely
Heroic deem'd, chief maistrie to dissect
With long and tedious havoc fabl'd Knights [ 30 ]
In Battels feign'd; the
Of Patience and Heroic Martyrdom
U or to describe Races and Games,
Or , emblazon'd Shields,
, Caparisons and S [ 35 ]
and tinsel Trappings, gorgious Knights
At Joust and Torneament; then marshal'd Feast
Serv'd up in H
or Office mean,
Not that which justly gives Heroic name [ 40 ]
To Person or to Poem. Mee of these
nor studious,
Remaines, sufficient of it self to raise
That name, unless an age too late, or cold
, or Years damp my intended wing [ 45 ]
Deprest, and much they may, if all be mine,
Not Hers who brings it nightly to my Ear.
The Sun was sunk, and after him the Starr
Of , whose Office is to bring
Twilight upon the Earth, short Arbiter [ 50 ]
Twixt Day and Night, and now from end to end
Nights Hemisphere had veild the Horizon round:
When Satan who late fled before the threats
Of Gabriel out of Eden, now
In meditated fraud and malice, bent [ 55 ]
On mans destruction, maugre what might hap
Of heavier on himself, fearless return'd.
By Night he fled, and at Midnight return'd.
From compassing the Earth, cautious of day,
Regent of the Sun descri'd [ 60 ]
His entrance, and forewarnd the
That kept thir thence full of anguish driv'n,
The space of seven continu'd Nights he rode
With darkness, thrice the Equinoctial Line
He circl'd, four times cross'd the
From Pole to Pole,
On the eighth return'd, and on the Coast
From entrance or Cherubic Watch, by
Found unsuspected way.
There was a place,
Now not, though Sin, not Time, first wraught the change, [ 70 ]
at the foot of Paradise
Into a Gulf shot under ground, till part
Rose up a Fountain by the Tree of L
In with the River sunk, and with it rose
Satan involv'd in rising Mist, then sought [ 75 ]
W Sea he had
From Eden over , and the Poole
Downward as farr Antartic; and in length
to the Ocean
At , thence to the Land where flowes
Ganges and Indus: thus the
W and with inspection deep
every Creature, which of all
Most opportune might serve his Wiles, and found [ 85 ]
The Serpent
the Field.
Him after long debate, irresolute
Of thoughts revolv'd, his final sentence chose
Fit Vessel, fittest Imp of fraud, in whom
To enter, and his dark suggestions hide [ 90 ]
From sharpest sight: for in the wilie Snake,
Whatever sleights none would suspicious mark,
As from his wit and native suttletie
Proceeding, which in other Beasts observ'd
might beget of Diabolic pow'r [ 95 ]
Active within beyond the sense of brute.
Thus he resolv'd, but first from inward griefe
His bursting passion into plaints thus pour'd:
O Earth, , if not preferr'd
More justly, Seat worthier of Gods, as built [ 100 ]
With , reforming what was old!
For what God after better worse would build?
Terrestrial Heav'n, danc't round by other Heav'ns
That shine, yet bear thir bright
Light above Light, , as seems, [ 105 ]
In thee concentring all thir precious beams
Of sacred influence: As God in
Is Center, yet extends to all, so thou
Centring receav'st from all those O in thee,
Not in themselves, all thir known vertue appeers [ 110 ]
Productive in Herb, Plant, and nobler birth
Of Creatures animate with gradual life
Of Growth, Sense, Reason, all summ'd up in Man.
With what delight could I have walkt thee round,
If I could joy in aught, sweet interchange [ 115 ]
Of Hill, and Vallie, Rivers, Woods and Plaines,
Now Land, now Sea, and Shores with Forrest crownd,
Rocks, Dens, and C but I in none of these
F and the more I see
Pleasures about me, so much more I feel [ 120 ]
Torment within me, as from the hateful siege
O all good to me becomes
Bane, and in Heav'n much worse would be my state.
But neither here seek I, no nor in Heav'n
To dwell, unless by maistring Heav'ns Supreame; [ 125 ]
Nor hope to be my self less miserable
By what I seek, but others to make such
As I, though thereby worse to me redound:
For onely in destroying I find ease
To my and him destroyd, [ 130 ]
Or won to what may work his utter loss,
For whom all this was made, all this will soon
Follow, as to him linkt in weal or woe,
In wo then: that destruction wide may range:
To mee shall be the glorie sole among [ 135 ]
The infernal Powers, in one day to have marr'd
What he Almightie styl'd, six Nights and Days
Continu'd making, and who knows how long
Before had bin contriving, though perhaps
Not longer then since I in one Night freed [ 140 ]
From servitude inglorious
Th' Angelic Name, and thinner left the throng
Of his adorers: hee to be aveng'd,
And to repaire his numbers thus impair'd,
Whether such
spent of old now faild [ 145 ]
More Angels to Create,
Are his Created, or to spite us more,
Determin'd to advance
A Creature form'd of Earth, and him endow,
Exalted from so base original, [ 150 ]
With Heav'nly spoils, : What he decreed
H Man he made, and for him built
Magnificent this World, and Earth his seat,
Him Lord pronounc'd, and, O indignitie!
Subjected to his service Angel wings, [ 155 ]
And flaming Ministers to watch and tend
Thir earthy Charge: Of these the vigilance
I dread, and to elude, thus wrapt in mist
Of midnight vapor glide obscure, and prie
In every Bush and Brake, where hap may finde [ 160 ]
The Serpent sleeping, in whose mazie foulds
To hide me, and the dark intent I bring.
O foul descent! that I who erst contended
With Gods to sit the highest, am now constraind
Into a Beast, and mixt with bestial slime, [ 165 ]
This essence to ,
That to the hight of Deitie aspir'd;
But what will not Ambition and Revenge
Descend to? who aspires must down as low
As high he soard,
first or last [ 170 ]
To basest things.
Revenge, at first though sweet,
Bitter ere long back on it self recoiles;
L I reck not, so it light well aim'd,
Since higher I fall short, on him who next
Provokes my , this new Favorite [ 175 ]
Of Heav'n, this Man of Clay, Son of despite,
Whom us the more to spite his Maker rais'd
From dust:
then with spite is best repaid.
So saying, through each Thicket Danck or Drie,
Like a black mist low creeping, he held on [ 180 ]
His midnight search, where soonest he might finde
The Serpent: him fast sleeping soon he found
In Labyrinth of many a round self-rowld,
His head the midst, well stor'd with suttle wiles:
Not yet in horrid Shade or dismal Den, [ 185 ]
yet, but on the grassie Herbe
Fearless unfeard he slept: in at his Mouth
The Devil enterd, and his brutal sense,
In heart or head, possessing soon inspir'd
Wit but his sleep [ 190 ]
Disturbd not, waiting
th' approach of Morn.
Now when as sacred Light began to dawne
In Eden on the humid Flours, that breathd
Thir morning incense, when all things that breath,
From th' Earths great Altar send up silent praise [ 195 ]
To the Creator, and his Nostrils fill
With grateful Smell, forth came the human pair
And joind thir vocal Worship to the Quire
Of Creatures
voice, that done, partake
The season, prime for sweetest Sents and Aires: [ 200 ]
Then commune how that day they best may ply
Thir growing work: for much thir work outgrew
The hands dispatch of two Gardning so wide.
And Eve first to her Husband thus began.
Adam, well may we labour still to dress [ 205 ]
This Garden, still to tend Plant, Herb and Flour,
Our pleasant task enjoyn'd, but till more hands
Aid us, the work under our labour grows,
Lu what we by day
Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, [ 210 ]
One night or two with wanton growth derides
Tending to wilde.
Thou therefore now advise
what to my minde first thoughts present,
Let us divide our labours, thou where choice
Leads thee, or where most needs, whether to wind [ 215 ]
The Woodbine round this Arbour, or direct
The clasping Ivie where to climb, while I
of Roses intermixt
With Myrtle, find what to redress till Noon:
For while so near each other thus all day [ 220 ]
Our taske we choose, what wonder if so near
Looks intervene and smiles, or object new
Casual discourse draw on,
Our dayes work brought to little, though begun
Early, and th' hour of Supper comes . [ 225 ]
To whom mild answer Adam thus return'd.
Sole Eve, Associate sole, to me beyond
Compare above all living Creatures deare,
Well hast thou , well thy thoughts imployd
How we might best fulfill the work which here [ 230 ]
God hath assign'd us, nor of me shalt pass
Unprais'd: for
lovelier can be found
In Woman, then to studie houshold good,
And good workes in her Husband to promote.
Yet not so strictly hath our Lord impos'd [ 235 ]
Labour, as to debarr us when we need
Refreshment, whether food, or talk between,
Food of the mind, or this sweet intercourse
Of looks and smiles, for smiles from Reason flow,
To brute deni'd, and are of Love the food, [ 240 ]
Love not the lowest end of human life.
For not to irksom toile, but to delight
He made us, and delight to Reason joyn'd.
These paths & Bowers doubt not but our joynt hands
Will keep from
with ease, as wide [ 245 ]
As we need walk, till younger hands ere long
Assist us: But if much
Thee , to short absence I could yield.
For solitude
And short retirement urges sweet returne. [ 250 ]
But other doubt possesses me, least harm
Befall thee sever'd for thou knowst
What hath bin warn'd us, what malicious Foe
Envying our happiness, and of his own
Despairing, seeks to work us woe and shame [ 255 ]
B and somwhere nigh at hand
Watches, no doubt, with greedy hope to find
His wish and best advantage, us asunder,
Hopeless to circumvent us joynd, where each
To other speedie aide [ 260 ]
Whether his first design be to withdraw
Our fealtie from God, or to disturb
Conjugal Love, then which perhaps no bliss
Enjoy'd by us excites his envie
Or this, or worse, leave not the faithful side [ 265 ]
That gave thee being, still shades thee and protects.
The Wife, where danger or dishonour lurks,
Safest and seemliest by her Husband staies,
Who guards her, or with her the worst endures.
To whom the
Majestie of Eve, [ 270 ]
As one who loves, and some unkindness meets,
With sweet austeer composure thus reply'd,
Ofspring of Heav'n and Earth, and all Earths Lord,
That such an Enemie we have, who seeks
Our ruin, both by thee
I learne, [ 275 ]
And from the parting Angel
As in a shadie nook I stood behind,
Just then returnd at shut of Evening Flours.
But that thou shouldst my firmness therfore doubt
To God or thee, because we have a foe [ 280 ]
May tempt it, I expected not to hear.
His violence thou fear'st not, being such,
As wee, not capable of death or paine,
Can either not receave, or can repell.
His fraud is then thy fear, which plain inferrs [ 285 ]
Thy equal fear that my firm Faith and Love
Can by his fraud be shak'n or seduc't;
Thoughts, which how found they harbour in thy brest
of her to thee so dear?
To whom with healing words Adam replyd. [ 290 ]
of God and Man, immortal Eve,
For such thou art, from sin and blame :
Not diffident of thee do I dissuade
Thy absence from my sight, but to avoid
Th' attempt itself, intended by our Foe. [ 295 ]
For hee who tempts, though in vain, at least asperses
The tempted with dishonour foul, suppos'd
Not incorruptible of Faith, not prooff
Against temptation: thou thy self with scorne
And anger wouldst resent the offer'd wrong, [ 300 ]
Though ineffectual found: misdeem not then,
If such affront I labour to avert
From thee alone, which on us both at once
The Enemie, though bold, will hardly dare,
Or daring, first on mee th' assault shall light. [ 305 ]
Nor thou his malice and
Suttle he needs must be, who could seduce
Angels nor think superfluous others aid.
I from the influence of thy looks receave
in every Vertue, in thy sight [ 310 ]
More wise, more watchful, stronger, if need were
O while shame, thou looking on,
Shame to be overcome or over-reacht
Would utmost vigor raise, and rais'd unite.
Why shouldst not thou like sense within thee feel [ 315 ]
When I am present, and thy trial choose
With me, best witness of thy Vertue tri'd.
So spake domestick Adam in his care
And Matrimonial L but Eve, who thought
Less attributed to her Faith sincere, [ 320 ]
Thus her reply with accent sweet renewd.
If this be our condition, thus to dwell
In narrow circuit
Suttle or violent, we not endu'd
Single with like defence, wherever met, [ 325 ]
How are we happie, still in fear of harm?
But harm precedes not sin: onely our Foe
Tempting affronts us with his foul esteem
Of our integritie: his foul esteeme
Sticks no dishonor on our , but turns [ 330 ]
F then wherefore shund or feard
By us? who rather double honour gaine
From his surmise prov'd false, find peace within,
Favour from Heav'n, our witness from th' event.
And what is Faith, Love,
Alone, without exterior help sustaind?
Let us not then suspect our happie State
Left so imperfet by the Maker wise,
As not secure to single or combin'd.
Fraile is our happiness, if this be so, [ 340 ]
And Eden were no Eden thus expos'd.
To whom thus Adam fervently repli'd.
O Woman, best are all things as the will
Of God ordain'd them, his creating hand
or deficient left [ 345 ]
Of all that he Created, much less Man,
Or aught that might his happie State secure,
Secur within himself
The danger lies, yet lies within his power:
Against his will he can receave no harme. [ 350 ]
But God left , for what obeyes
Reason, is free, and Reason he made right
But bid her well beware, and still ,
Least by some faire appeering good surpris'd
She dictate false, and
the Will [ 355 ]
To do what God expresly hath forbid,
Not then mistrust, but tender love enjoynes,
That I should mind thee oft, and mind thou me.
Firm we subsist, yet possible to swerve,
Since Reason not impossibly may meet [ 360 ]
by the Foe subornd,
And fall into deception unaware,
Not keeping strictest watch, as she was warnd.
Seek not temptation then, which to avoide
Were better, and most likelie if from mee [ 365 ]
Thou sever not: Trial will come unsought.
Wouldst thou
thy constancie, approve
F th' other who can know,
Not seeing thee attempted, who attest?
But if thou think, trial unsought may finde [ 370 ]
Us both securer then thus warnd thou seemst,
; for thy stay, not free,
Go in thy native innocence, relie
On what thou hast of vertue, summon all,
For God towards thee hath , do thine. [ 375 ]
So spake the Patriarch of Mankinde, but Eve
Persisted, yet , , repli'd.
With thy permission then, and thus forewarnd
Chiefly by what thy own last reasoning words
Touchd onely, that our trial, when least sought, [ 380 ]
May finde us both perhaps farr less prepar'd,
The willinger I goe, nor much expect
A Foe so proud will first
So bent, the more shall shame him his repulse.
Thus saying,
her hand [ 385 ]
Soft she withdrew, and like a Wood-Nymph light
Betook her to the Groves, but Delia's self
In gate surpass'd and Goddess-like ,
Though not as shee with Bow and Quiver armd, [ 390 ]
But with such Gardning Tools as Art yet rude,
Guiltless of
had formd, or Angels brought.
To , or Pomona, thus adornd,
Likeliest she seemd, when she fled
Vertumnus, or to
in her Prime, [ 395 ]
Yet Virgin of Proserpina from Jove.
Her long with ardent look his Eye pursu'd
Delighted, but .
Oft he to her his charge of quick returne
Repeated, shee to him as oft engag'd [ 400 ]
To be returnd by Noon amid the Bowre,
And all things in best order to invite
Noontide repast, or Afternoons repose.
O much deceav'd, much failing, hapless Eve,
Of thy presum'd return! event perverse! [ 405 ]
Thou never from that houre in Paradise
Foundst either sweet repast,
Such ambush hid among sweet Flours and Shades
Waited with hellish rancour imminent
To intercept thy way, or send thee back [ 410 ]
Despoild of Innocence, of Faith, of Bliss.
For now, and since first break of dawne the Fiend,
Meer Serpent in appearance, forth was come,
And on his Quest, where likeliest he might finde
The onely two of Mankinde, but in them [ 415 ]
The whole included Race, his purposd prey.
In Bowre and Field he sought, where any tuft
Of Grove or Garden-Plot more pleasant lay,
or Plantation for delight,
By Fountain or by shadie Rivulet [ 420 ]
He sought them both, but wish'd his hap might find
Eve separate, he wish'd, but not with hope
Of what so seldom chanc'd, when to his wish,
Beyond his hope, Eve separate he spies,
Veild in a Cloud of Fragrance, where she stood, [ 425 ]
Half spi'd, so thick the Roses bushing round
About her glowd, oft stooping to support
Each Flour of slender stalk, whose head though gay
Carnation, Purple, Azure, or spect with Gold,
Hung drooping unsustaind, them she upstaies [ 430 ]
Gently with Mirtle band, mindless the while,
Her self, though fairest unsupported Flour,
From her best prop so farr, and storm so nigh.
Neerer he drew, and many a walk travers'd
Of stateliest Covert, Cedar, Pine, or Palme, [ 435 ]
and bold, now hid, now seen
Among thick-wov'n Arborets and Flours
Imborderd on each Bank, the hand of Eve:
Spot more delicious then those Gardens feign'd
Or of reviv'd , or renownd [ 440 ]
, host of old ,
Or that, , where the Sapient King
Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian Spouse.
Much hee the Place admir'd, the Person more.
As one who long in populous City pent, [ 445 ]
Where Houses thick and Sewers annoy the Aire,
Forth issuing on a Summers Morn to breathe
Among the pleasant Villages and Farmes
Adjoynd, from each thing met conceaves delight,
The smell of Grain, or
Grass, or Kine, [ 450 ]
Or Dairie, each rural sight,
If chance with Nymphlike step fair Virgin pass,
What pleasing seemd, for her now pleases more,
She most, and in her look summs all Delight.
took the Serpent to behold [ 455 ]
This Flourie , the sweet recess of Eve
Thus earlie, her Heav'nly forme
Angelic, but more soft, ,
Her graceful Innocence, her every Aire
Of gesture or lest action overawd [ 460 ]
His Malice, and with rapine sweet bereav'd
His fierceness of the fierce intent it brought:
That space the Evil one abstracted stood
From his own evil, and for the time remaind
, of enmitie disarm'd, [ 465 ]
Of guile, of hate, of envie,
But the hot Hell that alwayes in him burnes,
Though in mid Heav'n, soon ended his delight,
And tortures him now more, the more he sees
Of pleasure not for him ordain'd: then soon [ 470 ]
Fierce hate he recollects, and all his thoughts
Of mischief, gratulating, thus excites.
, whither have ye led me, with what sweet
Compulsion thus transported to forget
What hither brought us, hate, not love, nor hope [ 475 ]
Of Paradise for Hell, hope here to taste
Of pleasure, but all pleasure to destroy,
Save what is in destroying, other joy
To me is lost.
let me not let pass
Occasion which now smiles, behold alone [ 480 ]
The Woman, opportune to all attempts,
Her Husband, for I view far round, not nigh,
more I shun,
And strength, of courage hautie, and of limb
Heroic built, though of terrestrial mould, [ 485 ]
Foe not informidable, ,
I so much hath Hell debas'd, and paine
Infeebl'd me, to what I was in Heav'n.
Shee fair, divinely fair, fit Love for Gods,
Not terrible, though terrour be in Love [ 490 ]
And beautie, not approacht by stronger hate,
Hate stronger, under shew of Love well feign'd,
The way which to her ruin now I tend.
So spake the Enemie of Mankind, enclos'd
In Serpent, Inmate bad, and toward Eve [ 495 ]
Address'd his way, not with indented wave,
Prone on the ground, as since, but on his reare,
Circular base of rising foulds, that tour'd
Fould above fould a surging Maze, his Head
Crested aloft, and Carbuncle his E [ 500 ]
With burnisht Neck of verdant Gold, erect
Amidst his circling , that on the grass
Floted redundant: pleasing was his shape,
And lovely, never since of Serpent kind
Lovelier, not those that in Illyria
Hermione and Cadmus, or
In Epidaurus; nor to which transformd
, or Capitoline was seen,
Hee with Olympias, this with her who bore
the highth of Rome.
With tract
At first, as one who sought access, but feard
To interrupt, side-long he works his way.
As when a Ship by skilful Stearsman wrought
Nigh Rivers mouth or Foreland, where the Wind
Veres oft, as oft so steers, and shifts her Saile; [ 515 ]
So varied hee, and of his tortuous Traine
Curld many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve,
To lure her E shee busied heard the sound
Of rusling Leaves, but minded not, as us'd
To such disport before her through the Field, [ 520 ]
From every Beast, more duteous at her call,
Then at Circean call the .
Hee boulder now, uncall'd
But as in gaze admiring: Oft he bowd
His turret Crest, and sleek enamel'd Neck, [ 525 ]
Fawning, and lick'd the ground whereon she trod.
His gentle dumb expression turnd at length
The Eye of Eve he glad
Of her attention gaind, with Serpent Tongue
, or impulse of vocal Air, [ 530 ]
His fraudulent temptation thus began.
not, sovran Mistress, if perhaps
Thou canst, who art sole Wonder, much less arm
Thy looks, the Heav'n of mildness, with disdain,
Displeas'd that I approach thee thus, and gaze [ 535 ]
Insatiate, I thus single, nor have feard
Thy awful brow, more awful thus retir'd.
Thee all things living gaze on, all things thine
By gift, and thy Celestial Beautie adore [ 540 ]
With ravishment beheld, there best beheld
Where universally admir'd; but here
In this enclosure wild, these Beasts among,
Beholders rude, and shallow to discerne
Half what in thee is fair, one man except, [ 545 ]
Who sees thee? (and what is one?) who shouldst be seen
A Goddess among Gods, ador'd and serv'd
By Angels numberless, thy daily Train.
the Tempter, and his
Into the Heart of Eve his words made way, [ 550 ]
Though at the
Not unamaz'd she thus in answer spake.
What may this mean? Language of Man pronounc't
By Tongue of Brute, and human sense exprest?
The first at lest of these I thought deni'd [ 555 ]
To Beasts, whom God on thir Creation-Day
Created mute to all articulat
The latter I , for in thir looks
Much reason, and in thir actions oft appeers.
Thee, Serpent, suttlest beast of all the field [ 560 ]
I knew, but not with human voice endu'd;
Redouble then this miracle, and say,
How cam'st thou speakable of mute, and how
To me so friendly grown above the rest
Of brutal kind, that daily are in sight? [ 565 ]
Say, for such wonder claims attention due.
To whom the guileful Tempter thus reply'd.
Empress of this fair World, resplendent Eve,
Easie to mee it is to tell thee all
What thou commandst and right thou shouldst be obeyd: [ 570 ]
I was at first as other Beasts that graze
The trodden Herb, of abject thoughts and low,
As was my food, nor aught but food discern'd
Or Sex, and :
Till on a day roaving the field, I chanc'd [ 575 ]
A goodly Tree farr distant to behold
Loaden with fruit of fairest colours mixt,
Ruddie and Gold: I
When from the boughes a savorie odour blow'n,
Grateful to appetite, more pleas'd my sense, [ 580 ]
Then smell of sweetest Fenel or the Teats
Of Ewe or Goat dropping with ,
Unsuckt of Lamb or Kid, that tend thir play.
To satisfie the sharp desire I had
Of tasting those fair , I resolv'd [ 585 ]
Not to deferr; hunger and thirst at once,
Powerful perswaders,
quick'nd at the scent
Of that alluring fruit, urg'd me so keene.
About the mossie Trunk I wound me soon,
For high from ground the branches would require [ 590 ]
Thy utmost reach or Adams: Round the Tree
All other Beasts that saw, with like desire
Longing and envying stood, .
Amid the Tree now got, where plenty hung
so nigh, to pluck and eat my fill [ 595 ]
I spar'd not, for such pleasure till that hour
At Feed or Fountain never had I found.
Sated at length, ere long I might perceave
Strange alteration in me,
Of Reason in my inward Powers, and Speech [ 600 ]
Wanted not long, though to this shape retain'd.
Thenceforth to Speculations high or deep
I turnd my thoughts, and with capacious mind
all things visible in Heav'n,
Or Earth, or , all
But all that fair and good in thy Divine
Semblance, and in thy Beauties heav'nly Ray
United I no Fair to thine
Equivalent or second, which compel'd
Mee thus, though importune perhaps, to come [ 610 ]
And gaze, and worship thee of right declar'd
Sovran of Creatures, universal Dame.
So talk'd the
sly S and Eve
Yet more amaz'd unwarie thus reply'd.
leaves in doubt [ 615 ]
The vertue of that Fruit, in thee first prov'd:
But say, where grows the Tree, from hence how far?
For many are the Trees of God that grow
In Paradise, and various, yet unknown
To us, in such abundance lies our choice, [ 620 ]
As leaves a greater store of Fruit untoucht,
Still hanging incorruptible, till men
Grow up to , and more hands
Help to disburden Nature of her .
To whom the wilie Adder, blithe and glad. [ 625 ]
Empress, the way is readie, and not long,
Beyond a row of Myrtles, on a Flat,
Fast by a Fountain, one small Thicket past
Myrrh and Balme; if thou accept
My conduct, I can bring thee thither soon. [ 630 ]
Lead then, said Eve. Hee leading swiftly rowld
In tangles, and made intricate seem strait,
To mischief swift. Hope elevates, and joy
Bright'ns his Crest, as when a
Compact of unctuous vapor, which the Night [ 635 ]
Condenses, and the cold invirons round,
Kindl'd through agitation to a Flame,
Which oft, they say, some evil Spirit attends
Hovering and blazing with delusive Light,
Misleads th' amaz'd Night-wanderer from his way [ 640 ]
To Boggs and Mires, and oft through Pond or Poole,
There swallow'd up and lost, from succour farr.
So glister'd the dire Snake, and into
Led Eve our credulous Mother, to the Tree
Of prohibition, [ 645 ]
Which when she saw, thus to her guide she spake.
Serpent, we might have spar'd our coming hither,
to mee, though Fruit be here to excess,
The credit of whose vertue rest with thee,
Wondrous indeed, if cause of such effects. [ 650 ]
But of this Tree we may
God so commanded, and left that Command
Sole D the rest, we live
, our Reason is our Law.
To whom the Tempter guilefully repli'd. [ 655 ]
Indeed? hath God then said that of the Fruit
Of all these Garden Trees ye shall not eate,
Yet Lords declar'd of all in Earth or Aire?
To whom thus Eve yet sinless.
Of the Fruit
Of each Tree in the Garden we may eate, [ 660 ]
But of the Fruit of this fair Tree amidst
The Garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eate
Thereof, nor shall ye touch it, least ye die.
She scarse had said, though brief, when now more bold
The Tempter, but with shew of Zeale and Love [ 665 ]
To Man, and indignation at his wrong,
New part puts on, and as to passion mov'd,
Fluctuats disturbd, yet comely and in act
Rais'd, as of som great matter to begin.
As when of old
renound [ 670 ]
In Athens or free Rome, where Eloquence
Flourishd, since mute, to som great cause addrest,
Stood in himself collected, while each part,
Motion, each act won audience ere the tongue,
in highth began, as no delay [ 675 ]
Of Preface
through his Zeal of Right.
So standing, moving, or to highth upgrown
The Tempter all impassiond thus began.
O Sacred, Wise, and Wisdom-giving Plant,
Mother of , Now I feel thy Power [ 680 ]
Within me cleere, not onely to discerne
Things in thir Causes, but to trace the wayes
Of , deemd however wise.
Queen of this Universe, doe not believe
Those rigid threats of D : [ 685 ]
How should ye? by the Fruit? it gives you Life
, By the Threatner? look on mee,
Mee who have touch'd and tasted, yet both live,
And life more perfet have attaind then Fate
Meant mee, by ventring higher then my Lot. [ 690 ]
Shall that be shut to Man, which to the Beast
Is open? or will God incense his ire
For such a petty Trespass, and not praise
Rather your dauntless vertue, whom the pain
Of Death denounc't, whatever thing Death be, [ 695 ]
Deterrd not from atchieving what might leade
To happier life, knowledge of Good and E
Of good, how just? of evil, if what is evil
Be real, why not known, since easier shunnd?
God therefore cannot hurt ye, [ 700 ]
Not just, not G not feard then, nor obeyd:
Your feare it self of Death .
then was this forbid? Why but to awe,
Why but to keep ye low and ignorant,
H he knows that in the day [ 705 ]
Ye Eate thereof, your Eyes that seem so cleere,
Yet are but dim, shall perfetly be then
Op'nd and cleerd, and ye shall be as ,
Knowing both Good and Evil as they know.
That ye should be as Gods, since I as Man, [ 710 ]
, is but proportion meet,
I of brute human, yee of human Gods.
So ye shall die perhaps, by putting off
Human, to put on Gods, death to be wisht,
Though threat'nd, which no worse then this can bring. [ 715 ]
And what are Gods that Man may not become
As they, ?
The Gods are first, and that advantage use
On our belief, that al
I question it, for this fair Earth I see, [ 720 ]
Warm'd by the Sun, producing every kind,
Them nothing:
all things, who enclos'd
Knowledge of Good and Evil in this Tree,
That whoso eats thereof, forthwith attains
Wisdom without their leave? and wherein lies [ 725 ]
Th' offence, that Man should thus attain to know?
What can your knowledge hurt him, or this Tree
Impart against his will if all be his?
Or is it envie, and can envie dwell
In Heav'nly brests? these, these and many more [ 730 ]
Causes import your need of this fair Fruit.
Goddess humane, reach then, and freely taste.
He ended, and his words replete with guile
Into her heart
Fixt on the Fruit she gaz'd, which to behold [ 735 ]
Might tempt alone, and in her ears the sound
Yet rung of his perswasive words,
With Reason, to her seeming, and with T
Mean while the hour of
drew on, and wak'd
An eager appetite, rais'd by the smell [ 740 ]
So savorie of that Fruit, which with desire,
now grown to touch or taste,
Sollicited yet first
Pausing a while, thus to her self she mus'd.
Great are thy Vertues, doubtless, best of Fruits. [ 745 ]
Though kept from Man, and worthy to be admir'd,
Whose taste, too long forborn, at first assay
Gave elocution to the mute, and taught
The Tongue not made for Speech to speak thy praise:
Thy praise hee also who forbids thy use, [ 750 ]
Conceales not from us, naming thee the Tree
Of Knowledge, knowledge b
Forbids us then to taste, but his forbidding
Commends thee more, while it inferrs the good
By thee communicated, and our want: [ 755 ]
For good unknown, sure is not had, or had
And yet unknown, is as not had at all.
then, what forbids he but to know,
Forbids us good, forbids us to be wise?
Such prohibitions binde not. But if Death [ 760 ]
Bind us with after-bands, what profits then
Our inward freedom? In the day we eate
Of this fair Fruit, our doom is, we shall die.
How dies the Serpent? hee hath eat'n and lives,
And knows, and speaks, and reasons, and discerns, [ 765 ]
Irrational till then.
For us alone
Was death invented? or to us deni'd
This intellectual food, for beasts reserv'd?
For Beasts it seems: yet that one Beast which first
Hath tasted, envies not, but brings with joy [ 770 ]
The good befall'n him, ,
Friendly to man, farr from deceit or guile.
What fear I then, rather what know to feare
Under this ignorance of good and Evil,
Of God or Death, of Law or Penaltie? [ 775 ]
Here grows the Cure of all, this Fruit Divine,
Fair to the Eye, inviting to the Taste,
Of vertue to make wise: what hinders then
To reach, and feed at once both Bodie and Mind?
So saying,
in evil hour [ 780 ]
Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat:
Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat
Sighing through all her Works gave signs of ,
That all was lost. Back to the Thicket slunk
The guiltie Serpent, and well might, for Eve [ 785 ]
Intent now wholly on her taste, naught else
Regarded, such delight till then, as seemd,
In Fruit she never tasted, whether true
Or fansied so, through expectation high
Of knowledg, nor was God-head from her thought. [ 790 ]
Greedily she ingorg'd without restraint,
And : Satiate at length,
And hight'nd as with Wine, jocond and ,
Thus to her self she pleasingly began.
O Sovran, vertuous, precious of all Trees [ 795 ]
In Paradise, of operation blest
, hitherto obscur'd, ,
And thy fair Fruit let hang, as to no end
C but henceforth my early care,
Not without Song, each Morning, and due praise [ 800 ]
Shall tend thee, and the fertil burden ease
Of thy full branches offer'd
Till dieted by thee I grow mature
In knowledge, as the Gods
Though others envie w [ 805 ]
For had the gift bin theirs, it had not here
Thus grown.
Experience, next to thee I owe,
B not following thee, I had remaind
In ignorance, thou op'nst Wisdoms way,
And giv'st access, though secret she retire. [ 810 ]
And I Heav'n is high,
High and remote to see from thence distinct
Each thing on E and other care perhaps
May have diverted from continual watch
Our great Forbidder, safe with all his Spies [ 815 ]
About him.
But to Adam in what sort
Shall I appeer? shall I to him make known
As yet my change, and give him to partake
Full happiness with mee, or rather not,
But keep the odds of Knowledge in my power [ 820 ]
Without Copartner? so to add what wants
In Femal Sex, the more to draw his Love,
And render me more equal, and perhaps,
A thing not undesireable,
Superior: for ? [ 825 ]
This may be well: but what if God have seen
And Death ensue? then I shall be no more,
And Adam wedded to another Eve,
Shall live with her enjoying, I
A death to think. Confirm'd then I resolve, [ 830 ]
Adam shall share with me in bliss or woe:
So dear I love him, that with him all deaths
I could endure, without him live no life.
So saying, from the Tree her step she turnd,
But first low Reverence don, as to the power [ 835 ]
That dwelt within, whose presence had infus'd
Into the plant
sap, deriv'd
From Nectar, drink of Gods.
Adam the while
Waiting desirous her return, had wove
Of choicest Flours a Garland to adorne [ 840 ]
Her Tresses, and her rural labours crown,
As Reapers oft are wont thir Harvest Queen.
Great joy he promis'd to his thoughts, and new
Solace in her return, so long delay'd;
Yet oft his heart,
of somthing ill, [ 845 ]
M hee the faultring
And forth to meet her went, the way she took
That Morn wh by the Tree
Of Knowledge he must pass, there he her met,
Scarse from the T in her hand [ 850 ]
A bough of fairest fruit that downie smil'd,
New gatherd, and ambrosial smell diffus'd.
To him she hasted, in her face excuse
, and Apologie to prompt,
Which with bland words at will she thus addrest. [ 855 ]
Hast thou not wonderd, Adam, at my stay?
Thee I have misst, and thought it long, depriv'd
Thy presence,
Not felt, nor shall be twice, for never more
Mean I to trie, what , [ 860 ]
The pain of absence from thy sight.
But strange
Hath bin the cause, and wonderful to heare:
This Tree is not as we are told, a Tree
tasted, nor to evil unknown
Op'ning the way, but of Divine effect [ 865 ]
To open Eyes, and make them G
And hath bin
such: the Serpent wise,
Or not restraind as wee, or not obeying,
Hath eat'n of the fruit, and is become,
, as we are threatn'd, but thenceforth [ 870 ]
Endu'd with human voice and human sense,
Reasoning to admiration, and with mee
Perswasively hath so prevaild, that I
Have also tasted, and have also found
Th' effects to correspond, opener mine Eyes [ 875 ]
Dimm erst, dilated Spirits, ampler Heart,
And growing up to G which for thee
Chiefly I sought, without thee can despise.
For bliss, as thou hast part, to me is bliss,
, and odious soon. [ 880 ]
Thou therefore also taste, that equal Lot
May joyne us, equal Joy, as equal L
Least thou not tasting, different degree
Disjoyne us, and I then too late renounce
Deitie for thee, when Fate will not permit. [ 885 ]
Thus Eve with Countnance blithe her storie
But in her Cheek distemper flushing glowd.
On th' other side,
Adam, soon as he heard
The fatal Trespass don by Eve, amaz'd,
Astonied stood and Blank, while horror chill [ 890 ]
Ran through his veins, and all his joynts relax'd;
From his slack hand the Garland wreath'd for Eve
Down drop'd, and all the faded Roses shed:
Speechless he stood and pale, till thus at length
First to himself he inward silence broke. [ 895 ]
O fairest of Creation,
Of all Gods works, Creature in whom excell'd
Whatever can to sight or thought be formd,
Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!
How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, [ 900 ]
Defac't, deflourd, and now to Death ?
Rather how hast thou yeelded to transgress
The strict forbiddance, how to violate
The sacred Fruit forbidd'n! som cursed fraud
Of Enemie hath beguil'd thee, yet unknown, [ 905 ]
And mee with thee hath ruind, for with thee
Certain my resolution is to D
How can I live without thee, how forgoe
Thy sweet Converse and Love so dearly joyn'd,
To live again in these wilde Woods forlorn? [ 910 ]
Should God create another Eve, and I
Another Rib afford, yet loss of thee
Would no no, I feel
draw me: Flesh of Flesh,
Bone of my Bone thou art, and from thy State [ 915 ]
Mine never shall be parted, .
So having said, as one from sad dismay
Recomforted, and after thoughts disturbd
Submitting to what seemd remediless,
Thus in calm mood his Words to Eve he turnd. [ 920 ]
Bold deed thou hast presum'd, adventrous Eve
And peril great provok't, who thus hath dar'd
Had it been onely coveting to Eye
That sacred Fruit, sacred to abstinence,
Much more to taste it under banne to touch. [ 925 ]
But past who can recall, or don undoe?
Not God Omnipotent, nor Fate, yet so
thou shalt not Die, perhaps the Fact
Is not so hainous now, foretasted Fruit,
Profan'd first by the Serpent, by him first [ 930 ]
Made common and unhallowd
Nor yet on him found deadly, he yet lives,
Lives, as thou saidst, and gaines to live as Man
Higher degree of Life, inducement strong
To us, as likely tasting to attaine [ 935 ]
Proportional ascent, which cannot be
But to be Gods, or Angels Demi-gods.
Nor can I think that God, Creator wise,
Though threatning, will in earnest so destroy
Us his prime Creatures, dignifi'd so high, [ 940 ]
Set over all his Works, which in our Fall,
For us created, needs with us must faile,
D so God shall uncreate,
Be frustrate, do, undo, and labour loose,
Not well conceav'd of God, who though his Power [ 945 ]
Creation could repeate, yet would be loath
Us to abolish,
T Fickle their State whom God
Most Favors, who Mee first
He ruind, now M whom will he next? [ 950 ]
Matter of scorne, not to be given the Foe,
However I with thee have fixt my Lot,
to undergoe like doom, if Death
Consort with thee, Death is to mee as L
So forcible within my heart I feel [ 955 ]
draw me to my owne,
My own in thee, for w
Our State cannot be severd, we are one,
One F to loose thee were to loose my self.
So Adam, and thus Eve to him repli'd. [ 960 ]
O glorious trial of exceeding Love,
Illustrious evidence, example high!
Ingaging me to emulate, but short
Of thy perfection, how shall I attaine,
Adam, from whose deare side I boast me sprung, [ 965 ]
And gladly of our Union heare thee speak,
One Heart, one S whereof good prooff
This day affords, declaring thee resolvd,
Rather then Death or aught then Death more dread
Shall separate us, linkt in Love so deare, [ 970 ]
To undergoe with mee one Guilt, one Crime,
If any be, of tasting this fair Fruit,
Whose vertue, for of good still good proceeds,
Direct, or by occasion hath presented
This happie trial of thy Love, which else [ 975 ]
So eminently never had bin known.
Were it I thought Death menac't would ensue
This my attempt, I would sustain alone
The worst, and not perswade thee, rather die
Deserted, then
thee with a
Pernicious to thy Peace, chiefly assur'd
Remarkably so late of thy so true,
So faithful Love unequald; but I feel
Farr otherwise th' event, not Death, but Life
Augmented, op'nd Eyes, new Hopes, new Joyes, [ 985 ]
Taste so Divine, that what of sweet before
Hath toucht my sense, flat seems to this, and harsh.
On my experience, Adam, freely taste,
And fear of Death deliver to the Windes.
So saying, she embrac'd him, and for joy [ 990 ]
Tenderly wept, much won that he his Love
Had so enobl'd, as of choice to incurr
Divine displeasure for her sake, or Death.
In recompence (for such
Such recompence best merits) from the bough [ 995 ]
She gave him of that fair enticing Fruit
With liberal hand: he scrupl'd not to eat
Against his better knowledge, ,
But fondly overcome with Femal .
Earth trembl'd from her entrails, as again [ 1000 ]
In pangs, and Nature gave a second groan,
Skie lowr'd, and muttering Thunder, som sad drops
Wept at compleating of the mortal Sin
O while Adam took no thought,
Eating his fill, nor Eve to iterate [ 1005 ]
Her former trespass fear'd, the more to soothe
Him with her lov'd societie, that now
As with new Wine intoxicated both
They swim in mirth, and
that they feel
Divinitie within them breeding wings [ 1010 ]
Wherewith to scorne the Earth: but that false Fruit
Farr other operation first displaid,
Carnal desire enflaming, hee on Eve
Began to cast lascivious Eyes, she him
A : [ 1015 ]
Till Adam thus 'gan Eve to
Eve, now I see thou art exact of taste,
And elegant, of Sapience no small part,
Since to each meaning savour
And P I the praise [ 1020 ]
Yeild thee, so well this day thou hast purvey'd.
Much pleasure we have lost, while we abstain'd
From this delightful Fruit, nor known till now
True relish, if such pleasure be
In things to us forbidden, it might be wish'd, [ 1025 ]
For this one Tree had bin forbidden ten.
But come, so well refresh't, now let us play,
As meet is, after such delicious F
For never did thy Beautie since the day
I saw thee first and wedded thee, adorn'd [ 1030 ]
With all perfections, so enflame my sense
With ardor to enjoy thee, fairer now
Then ever, bountie of this vertuous Tree.
So said he, and forbore not glance or toy
Of amorous intent, well understood [ 1035 ]
Of Eve, whose .
Her hand , and to a shadie bank,
Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr'd
He l Flours were the ,
Pansies, and Violets, and Asphodel, [ 1040 ]
And Hyacinth,
Earths freshest softest lap.
There they thir fill of Love and Loves disport
Took largely, of thir mutual guilt the Seale,
The solace of thir sin, till dewie sleep
Oppress'd them, wearied with thir . [ 1045 ]
Soon as the force of that fallacious Fruit,
That with exhilerating vapour
About thir spirits had plaid, and inmost powers
Made erre, was now exhal'd, and
dreams [ 1050 ]
Encumberd, now had left them, up they rose
As from unrest, and each the other viewing,
Soon found thir Eyes how op'nd, and thir minds
How dark'nd; innocence, that as a veile
Had shadow'd them from knowing ill, was gon, [ 1055 ]
Just confidence, and native righteousness
And honour from about them, naked left
To guiltie shame , but his Robe
Uncover'd ,
so rose the
Herculean Samson from the Harlot-lap [ 1060 ]
Of Philistean Dalilah, and wak'd
Shorn of his strength, They destitute and bare
Of all thir vertue: silent, and in face
Confounded long they
sate, as struck'n mute,
Till Adam, though not less then Eve abasht, [ 1065 ]
At length gave utterance to these words constraind.
O Eve, in evil hour thou didst give eare
To that false Worm, of whomsoever taught
To counterfet Mans voice, true in our Fall,
False in our promis'd R since our Eyes [ 1070 ]
Op'nd we find indeed, and find we know
Both Good and Evil, Good lost, and Evil got,
Bad Fruit of Knowledge, if this be to know,
Which leaves us naked thus, of Honour void,
Of Innocence, of Faith, of Puritie, [ 1075 ]
Our wonted Ornaments now soild and staind,
And in our Faces evident the signes
Even shame, of the first
Be sure then.
How shall I behold the face [ 1080 ]
Henceforth of God or Angel, earst with joy
And rapture so oft beheld? those heav'nly shapes
Will dazle now this , with thir blaze
Insufferably bright.
O might I here
In solitude live savage, in some glade [ 1085 ]
Obscur'd, where highest Woods impenetrable
To Starr or Sun-light, spread thir umbrage broad,
And brown as Evening: Cover me ye Pines,
Ye Cedars, with innumerable boughs
Hide me, where I may never see them more. [ 1090 ]
But let us now, as in bad plight, devise
What best may
the present serve to hide
The Parts of each from other, that seem most
Some Tree whose broad smooth Leaves together sowd, [ 1095 ]
And girded on our loyns, may cover round
Those middle parts, that this new commer, Shame,
There sit not, and reproach us as unclean
So counsel'd hee, and both together went
Into the thickest Wood, there soon they chose [ 1100 ]
The Figtree,
But such as at this day to Indians known
In Malabar or Decan spreds her Armes
Braunching so broad and long, that in the ground
The bended Twigs take root, and Daughters grow [ 1105 ]
About the Mother Tree, a Pillard shade
High overarch't, and echoing W
There oft the Indian Herdsman shunning heate
Shelters in coole, and tends his pasturing Herds
At Loopholes cut through thickest shade: Those Leaves [ 1110 ]
They gatherd, broad as ,
And with what skill they had, together sowd,
To gird thir waste, vain Covering if to hide
Thir gui O how unlike
To that first naked Glorie.
Such of late [ 1115 ]
Columbus found
With featherd Cincture, naked else and wilde
Among the Trees on Iles and woodie Shores.
Thus fenc't, and as they thought, thir shame in part
Coverd, but not at rest or ease of Mind, [ 1120 ]
They sate them down to weep, nor onely Teares
Raind at thir Eyes, but high Winds worse within
Began to rise, high Passions, Anger, Hate,
Mistrust, Suspicion, Discord, and shook sore
Thir inward State of Mind, calm Region once [ 1125 ]
And full of Peace, now tost and turbulent:
For Understanding rul'd not, and the Will
Heard not her lore, both in subjection now
To sensual Appetite, who from beneathe
claimd [ 1130 ]
Superior sway: From thus distemperd brest,
Adam, estrang'd in look and alterd stile,
Speech intermitted thus to Eve renewd.
Would thou hadst heark'nd to my words, and stai'd
With me, as I besought thee, when that strange [ 1135 ]
Desire of wandring this unhappie Morn,
I know not whence possessd we had then
Remaind still happie, not as now, despoild
Of all our good, sham'd, naked, miserable.
Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve [ 1140 ]
The F when earnestly they seek
Such proof, conclude, they then begin to faile.
To whom soon mov'd with touch of blame thus Eve.
What words have past thy Lips, Adam severe,
Imput'st thou that to my default, or will [ 1145 ]
Of wandring, as thou call'st it, which who knows
But might as ill have happ'nd thou being by,
Or to thy self perhaps: hadst thou been there,
Or here th' attempt, thou couldst not have discernd
Fraud in the Serpent,
No ground of enmitie between us known,
Why hee should mean me ill, or seek to harme.
Was I to have never parted from thy side?
As good have grown there still a liveless Rib.
Being as I am, why didst not thou the
Command me absolutely not to go,
Going into such danger as thou saidst?
Too facil then thou didst not much gainsay,
Nay, didst permit, approve, and fair dismiss.
Hadst thou bin firm and fixt in thy dissent, [ 1160 ]
Neither had I transgress'd, nor thou with mee.
To whom then first incenst Adam repli'd,
Is this the Love, is this the recompence
Of mine to thee, ingrateful Eve, exprest
Immutable when thou wert lost, not I, [ 1165 ]
Who might have liv'd and joyd immortal bliss,
Yet willingly chose rather Death with thee:
And am I now upbraided, as the cause
Of thy transgressing? not enough severe,
It seems, in thy restraint: what could I more? [ 1170 ]
I warn'd thee, I admonish'd thee, foretold
The danger, and the lurking Enemie
T beyond this had bin force,
And force upon free Will hath here no place.
But confidence then bore thee on, secure [ 1175 ]
Either to meet no danger, or to finde
Matt and perhaps
What seemd in thee so perfet, that I thought
No evil durst attempt thee, but I rue [ 1180 ]
That errour now, which is become my crime,
And thou th' accuser.
Thus it shall befall
Him who to worth in
overtrusting
Lets her W restraint she will not brook,
And left to her self, if evil thence ensue, [ 1185 ]
Shee first his weak indulgence will accuse.
Thus they in mutual accusation spent
The fruitless hours, but neither self-condemning,
And of thir vain contest appeer'd no end.
The End of the Ninth Book.
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