Thus farr to try thee, Adam, I leasd,
And fihee knowing not of Beasts alone,
Which thou hast rightly namd, but of thy self,
Expressihe spirit within thee free, [ 440 ]
My Image, not imparted to the Brute,
Whose fellowship therefore u for thee
Good reason was thou freely shouldst dislike,
And be so miill; I, ere thou spakst,
K not good for Man to be alone, [ 445 ]
And no supanie as then thou sawst
Intehee, for trial onely brought,
To see how thou couldst judge of fit a:
What I bring shall please thee, be assurd,
Thy likeness, thy fit help, thy other self, [ 450 ]
Thy wish, exactly to thy hearts desire.
Hee ended, or I heard no more, for now
My earthly by his Heavnly overpowerd,
Which it had long stood under, streind to the highth
In that celestial Colloquie sublime, [ 455 ]
As with an object that excels the sense,
Dazld and spent, sunk down, and sought repair
Of sleep, whistantly fell on me, calld
By Nature as in aide, and ine eyes.
Mine eyes he closd, but ophe Cell [ 460 ]
Of Fancie my internal sight, by which
Abstract as in a trahought I saw,
Though sleeping, where I lay, and saw the shape
Still glorious before whom awake I stood;
Who stooping opnd my left side, and took [ 465 ]
From thence a Rib, with cordial spirits warme,
And Life-blood streaming fresh; wide was the wound,
But suddenly with flesh filld up and heald:
The Rib he formd and fashond with his hands;
Under his f hands a Creature grew, [ 470 ]
Manlike, but different sex, so lovly faire,
That what seemd fair in all the World, seemd now
Mean, or in her summd up, in her taind
And in her looks, which from that time infusd
Sweetness into my heart, u before, [ 475 ]
And into all things from her Aire inspird
The spirit of love and amorous delight.