to do what god expresly hath forbid; not then mistrust; but tender love enjoynes; that i should mind thee oft; and mind thou me。 。。! Paradise Lost Ⅸ9 ,小,说"网 firm we subsist; 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 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 e unsought。 wouldst thou approve thy constancie; approve first thy obedience; 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; go; for thy stay; not free; absents thee more; go in thy native innocence; relie on what thou hast of vertue; summon all; for god towards thee hath done his part; do thine。 ' 375 ' so spake the patriarch of mankinde; but eve persisted; yet submiss; though last; replid。 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 prepard; the willinger i goe; nor much expect a foe so proud will first the weaker seek; so bent; the more shall shame him his repulse。 thus saying; from her husbands hand her hand ' 385 ' soft she withdrew; and like a wood…nymph light oread or dryad; or of delias traine; betook her to the groves; but delias self in gate surpassd and goddess…like deport; though not as shee with bow and quiver armd; ' 390 ' but with such gardning tools as art yet rude; guiltless of fire had formd; or angels brought。 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。 her long with ardent look his eye pursud delighted; but desiring more her stay。 。。 Paradise Lost Ⅸ10 ×××小×说×网 oft he to her his charge of quick returne repeated; shee to him as oft engagd ' 400 ' to be returnd by noon amid the bowre; and all things in best order to invite noontide repast; or afternoons repose。 o much deceavd; much failing; hapless eve; of thy presumd return! event perverse! ' 405 ' thou never from that houre in paradise foundst either sweet repast; or sound repose; 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 e; 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; thir tendance or plantation for delight; by fountain or by shadie rivulet ' 420 ' he sought them both; but wishd his hap might find eve separate; he wishd; but not with hope of what so seldom chancd; when to his wish; beyond his hope; eve separate he spies; veild in a cloud of fragrance; where she stood; ' 425 ' half spid; 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 traversd of stateliest covert; cedar; pine; or palme; ' 435 ' then voluble and bold; now hid; now seen among thick…wovn arborets and flours imborderd on each bank; the hand of eve: spot more delicious then those gardens feignd or of revivd adonis; or renownd ' 440 ' alcinous; host of old laertes son; or that; not mystic; where the sapient king held dalliance with his fair egyptian spouse。 much hee the place admird; the person more。 。。 Paradise Lost Ⅸ11 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 tedded grass; or kine; ' 450 ' or dairie; each rural sight; each rural sound; 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。 such pleasure took the serpent to behold ' 455 ' this flourie plat; the sweet recess of eve thus earlie; thus alone; her heavnly forme angelic; but more soft; and feminine; her graceful innocence; her every aire of gesture or lest action overawd ' 460 ' his malice; and with rapine sweet bereavd his fierceness of the fierce intent it brought: that space the evil one abstracted stood from his own evil; and for the time remaind stupidly good; of enmitie disarmd; ' 465 ' of guile; of hate; of envie; of revenge; but the hot hell that alwayes in him burnes; though in mid heavn; soon ended his delight; and tortures him now more; the more he sees of pleasure not for him ordaind: then soon ' 470 ' fierce hate he recollects; and all his thoughts of mischief; gratulating; thus excites。 thoughts; whither have ye led me; with what sweet pulsion 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。 then 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; whose higher intellectual more i shun; and strength; of courage hautie; and of limb heroic built; though of terrestrial mould; ' 48