ts and drinks they had sufficd [ 450 ]

        Not burdnd Nature, sudden mind arose

        In Adam, not to let th occasion pass

        Given    fereo know

        Of thir being [ 455 ]

        ho dwell in heavn, whose excellence he saw

        transd    forms

        Divine effulgence, whose high Power so far

        Exceeded human, and his wary speech

        to ter he framd. [ 460 ]

        Inant h God, now know I well

        to man,

        Under saft

        to enter, and ts to taste,

        Food not of Angels, yet accepted so, [ 465 ]

        As t more    not seem

        At s to    w pare?

        to whe winged hierarch replid.

        O Adam, one Almightie is, from whom

        All to urn, [ 470 ]

        If not depravd from good, created all

        Suco perfe, one first matter all,

        Indud h various forms, various degrees

        Of substance, and in t live, of life;

        But more refind, more spiritous, and pure, [ 475 ]

        As o    or ending

        Eacive Sphears assignd,

        till body up to spirit work, in bounds

        Proportiond to eac

        Springs ligalk, from the leaves [ 480 ]

        More aerie, last t mate floure

        Spirits odorous breat

        Mans nouris, by gradual scale sublimd

        to vital Spirits aspire, to animal,

        to intellectual, give both life and sense, [ 485 ]

        Fansie and uanding, whe Soule

        Reason receives, and reason is her being,

        Discursive, or Intuitive; discourse

        Is oftest yours, tter most is ours,

        Differing but in degree, of kind the same. [ 490 ]

        onder not t God for you saw good

        If I refuse not, but vert, as you,

        to proper substaime may e when men

        iticipate, and find

        No inve Diet, nor too light Fare: [ 495 ]

        And from triments perhaps

        Your bodies may at last turn all to Spirit,

        Improvd by tract of time, and wingd asd

        Et choice

        here or in heavnly Paradises dwell; [ 500 ]

        If ye be found obedient, aain

        Unalterably firm ire

        hose progenie you are. Mean while enjoy

        Your fill e

        prehend, incapable of more. [ 505 ]

        to wriarankind replid,

        O favourable spirit, propitious guest,

        ell    taug mig

        Our k

        From ter to circumference, whereon [ 510 ]

        In plation of created things

        By steps o God. But say,

        meant t caution joind, if ye be found

        Obedient?     obediehen

        to    [ 515 ]

        , and placd us here

        Full to tmost measure of w bliss

        human desires    seek or apprehend?
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