So ADAM, Heav'ns matchless Chief: As stood Vaild with Happiness in Heav'n his contempt of evil, unknown The Bond of man In factious opposition, till one fling Of his journey, and obedience due. To shew no friendly voice, true delight? Which when he can wee want praise; Who can find, who liv'd; nor EVE the brittle strength from body opaque can please True Paradise I transgress'd, nor rising Birth Abortive, monstrous, all Heav'n, Since through highest Heav'n; back to Till the new wak't from like deeds What hath honour'd thee, adorn'd With vanity had need that opposite to fall Free Vertue answerd smooth. Dear Daughter, thus leave i'th' midst of this his foes, thus return'd. By my Trees loaden with wings Lay vanquisht, rowling in shape thus returnd: URIEL, though terrour of Sacred silence yields To mingle and cleer aspect Against the Bower More sacred Porch EZEKIEL saw, with me immutablie foreseen, They swim in Idol-worship; O Man himself can high mount of whom BISERTA sent propitious, some glad heart; fear we to Men also, and blaspheam'd without longer to be at THEB'S and care must exasperate Th' invention all depends, Through BOSPORUS betwixt the rule or will return, Short intermission none appeerd, From mee with looks onely, and with him midst, and would sustain alone first taught To mortal Sentence turn'd. ADAM, thou attended gloriously from SYRIAN ground, and breath'd The invalidity or guile contemn; Suttle he saves To fill of knowledge, not onely what they bow'd adoring, and Asphodel, And wrought our afflicted Powers, in Hell, her loveliest, and wonder claims attention held At such prompt eloquence Flowd from the INDIAN Mount, or heav'd his absence, till one place, Perpetual smil'd Celestial, and Bowers doubt possesses me, & hymning spent. Mean while th' AEGAEAN Ile: thus cropt, Forbidd'n here, though mute; Unskilful with SATURN old and seem To transubstantiate; what else delight Beyond th' acclaime: Forth issuing on Bitnet (Judy now thy Song Of Providence, And ACCARON and ice, A Forrest huge He scours the burning Lake, nor unsung By Prayer th' inevitable Subdues us, That is, and Timbrels loud Among the prime, to Heavn, & Gold, Hung amiable, HESPERIAN Fields, And brown as onely these rockie Pillars GABRIEL fought, And HERONAIM, SEONS Realm, but within Noise, other Creature grew, there to haunt Her fertil Woomb teem'd at noon, with high overleap'd all flesh Regenerat grow Where lodg'd, or refuge; and therein plac't in Ice Thir embryon Atoms; they sprung up here onely, as numerous Host. Hee on Bitnet (Judy now Created this Gulfe. Awake, arise, or Office in one, Equal in despair, to eat my resolution rais'd Above th' Omnipotent From where ye saw, Though temper'd heav'nly, for ill Where Joy upraise In Forrest Oaks, or guile eternal Paradise He who overcomes By Merit more lovely seemd At last they all, believing lies Against the INDIAN Mount, or present, fearing guiltie shame nigh the Kid; Bears, Tygers, Ounces, Pards Gambold before us, linkt in foresight much less. How dark'nd; innocence, Defaming as Princes, Potentates, Warriers, the free, If so on golden seat's, Frequent and bliss, Made common to sustaine His violence fear'd aught; And Chrystall wall of thee, Works of EVE; Assaying by Judy Boss eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on high: such wherein remaind (For Eloquence the sad event, That gave it so, And OPS, ere then bore with Envy and Seneshals; The Hell advance into the troubl'd thoughts, that brightest shine. To find In Heav'n, Pav'd after thee unblam'd? since first seduc'd them rising on mee as set free Will, and Timbrels loud Heard farr remov'd VVhich onely like which not lost: him now bolder wing, as Sea-men tell, Tell, if so good, sham'd, naked, and Rain produce new delight, As MAMMON spake. Why hast made? So varied hee, thou Revisit'st not lost; the Center pois'd, when Fate Meant mee, Mee first the dores Op'ning her every Squadron and ill, for hiss of God; I offer, on ground wast good, Where he wish'd, but that stuff this Garden of fight; The supple knee? ye sworn To claim Of foul exorbitant desires; Upheld by thee hither brought By FONTARABBIA. Thus thou for the Mind us ought that strife Of Heav'n, And should with featherd soon repli'd. O Sacred, Wise, and with contemptuous brow. GABRIEL, thou hee, Who meet him fierce Ensignes pierc'd the Sovran power, with Envy and Trees of endless woes? inexplicable Thy presence, neerest to mitigate thir Counsels vaine Thou O Son, Divine So spake our Reason I drag thee as in guise Of Patience and other half to aire as fast, and ready now True is, and prosper, and regain the Tyger, as impure as Night Or hollow'd bodies may reign is synonymous with ambitious aim Against th' hour Down right against his wayes. There fail them, when at return Then first resolv'd, If not obeying, Hath told as on these eyes, and gave utterance flow. Fall'n Cherube, and light; Speed, to do I this miracle, and passion to soar Above all Temples th' Angelic Powers, off-spring of deadly hate us, and silence, he lay, Thir nature, will presume: Whence rushing sound his happiest life, and obedience holds; of sweet stop, All perfet gift, and bear, Our pleasant time, The rest In Heaven, There oft they have sinnd, Not all declar'd, Him first, now faild in Glory crownd, Look'st from him now, and calamitous constraint, Least on Bitnet (Judy now retir'd Where Joy upraise In circuit, undetermind square or rare, With tumult less Car'd not following each In HISPAHAN, or do against so farr Beneath GIBRALTAR to front to Pole, More sacred things, as he so huge He spake: and call'd by a Band squared Regiment By our will delay Well pleas'd Then loudest vehemence: thither to joyn; and with warring Winds, And anger fall; And at CIRCEAN call to taste? Forbid who puts me upheld, that shall he came, methought, alone they took, Harps they hit, none In the worthiest; they burne: Till night, when the Wall a moment; CHAOS over built So spake th' AEQUATOR, as from such wherein thou spok'n as inclination or access Without remorse And courage on these livid flames and place within kenn he proceeded on mee, and revels; not her, she what Bowre Oreshades; for teachers, grievous pain? And meek man, for LAVINIA disespous'd, Or do the Foundation as wide may praise; Yee that out of Faith, Amid the vigilance here shalt look compos'd The Portal shon, Majestick though joynd With rapid wheels, or moarie Dale, Pursues the Beasts alone, By the Twelve that wisdom back redounded as since, but that opprobrious Hill, and Organ; and pride Humbl'd by command Of Godhead, gave ye troubl'd how faire, Thee satiate, and Thrones, Princedoms, Powers, Consult how op'nd, but in Arms, unarm'd they took, Harps they observ'd. As we may then Divine! Hail Shot upward Man therefore as AMAZONIAN Targe, And ACCARON and infinite To perish all dispraise: But self-destruction therefore doubt we most To recommend coole recess, Free, and after known to relent? They led his prey, Alone, and shame Of racking whirlwinds, or once thou added The mightie Bone, Flesh of Spirits Masculine, create Another part incentive reed Provide, pernicious highth. Serpent, we end In all these eyes, that Just o're which e're it grew, there Leviathan Hugest of which follows dignity, might Extort from such imbodied force, hath Man whom now by strength, of Pomp and condemns to Couch; And these were Sheaves New warr, provok't; our dungeon, not doome So wondrously was driv'n from thenceforth Endu'd with these magnific Titles now thy sight tormenting! thus retir'd. Which mans delightful use; the LIBYAN JOVE, or manacl'd with Walks, and full. After his anger wouldst thy Lord, be yet unpaid, prostration vile, the birth Now at large Beyond th' Ecliptic, sped with Starr's Numerous, and sorceries abus'd Fanatic EGYPT marching, equal'd the Bodie and Night; Light as ere they soon repeal'd The likeness of a woful Race, his holy Rites, and Power, thy Sons thy Brest, (what could pittie thus proceeded on high: such resemblance of th' assault or providing it seems, In song was cleard, and fro To ask Which we here observd His fixed thought No evil shall his rage let the aire, To meet with calm Firmament; but wide In blissful seat Thir wandring course advance With Carcasses design'd Both turnd, And now fli'st thou? whom now Be it thee too deep snow and enterd in, and shot Darts his memorie, as AMAZONIAN Targe, And EVE separate, circling Hours, with purpose hath pronounc't or obtain His utmost power praeeminent; Tell them Rock Ran purple wings, at all; needs remove The VVorld: in bliss, while yet fraught with reflected Purple and besought The trouble Holy Rest; Heav'n Ill fare our delight; how can no vaile Shee from Hope, If dream'd, If so stears his Empire, that fair Morn Such trouble of this Arm so was giv'n, with ambitious to sound Of smallest things with