So Adam, and thus Eve to him replid. [ 960 ]
O glorious trial of exceeding Love,
Illustrious evidence, example high!
Ingagio emulate, but short
Of thy perfe, how shall I attaine,
Adam, from whose deare side I boast me sprung, [ 965 ]
And gladly of our Union heare thee speak,
O, one Soul in both; whereof good prooff
This day affords, declaring thee resolvd,
Rather theh ht theh 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 emily never had bin known.
Were it I thought Death menact would ensue
This my attempt, I would sustain alone
The worst, and not perswade thee, rather die
Deserted, then oblige thee with a fact [ 980 ]
Pernicious to thy Peace, chiefly assurd
Remarkably so late of thy so true,
So faithful Love unequald; but I feel
Farr otherwise th event, not Death, but Life
Augmented, opnd Eyes, new Hopes, new Joyes, [ 985 ]
Taste so Divihat 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 embracd him, and for joy [ 990 ]
Tenderly wept, much won that he his Love
Had so enobld, as of choice to incurr
Divine displeasure for her sake, or Death.
In repence (for supliance bad
Such repence best merits) from the bough [ 995 ]
She gave him of that fair entig Fruit
With liberal hand: he scrupld not to eat
Against his better knowledge, not deceavd,
But fondly overe with Femal charm.