So having said, as one from sad dismay
Reforted, and after thoughts disturbd
Submitting to what seemd remediless,
Thus in calm mood his Words to Eve he turnd. [ 920 ]
Bold deed thou hast presumd, adventrous Eve
And peril great provokt, who thus hath dard
Had it been onely coveting to Eye
That sacred Fruit, sacred to abstinence,
Much more to taste it under bao touch. [ 925 ]
But past who recall, or don undoe?
Not God Omnipotent, nor Fate, yet so
Perhaps thou shalt not Die, perhaps the Fact
Is not so hainous now, foretasted Fruit,
Profand first by the Serpent, by him first [ 930 ]
Made on and unhallowd ere our taste;
Nor yet on him found deadly, he yet lives,
Lives, as thou saidst, and gaio live as Man
Higher degree of Life, i strong
To us, as likely tasting to attaine [ 935 ]
Proportional ast, which ot be
But to be Gods, els Demi-gods.
Nor I think that God, Creator wise,
Though threatning, will in ear so destroy
Us his prime Creatures, dignifid so high, [ 940 ]
Set over all his Works, whi our Fall,
For us created, needs with us must faile,
Depe made; so God shall ue,
Be frustrate, do, undo, and labour loose,
Not well ceavd of God, who though his Power [ 945 ]
Creation could repeate, yet would be loath
Us to abolish, least the Adversary
Triumph and say; Fickle their State whom God
Most Favors, who please him long; Mee first
He ruind, now Mankind; whom will he ? [ 950 ]
Matter of se, not to be given the Foe,
However I with thee have fixt my Lot,
Certain to undergoe like doom, if Death
sort with thee, Death is to mee as Life;
So forcible within my heart I feel [ 955 ]
The Bond of Nature draw me to my owne,
My own in thee, for what thou art is mine;
Our State ot be severd, we are one,
One Flesh; to loose thee were to loose my self.