The Birds thir quire apply; aires, vernal aires,
Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune [ 265 ]
The trembling leaves, while Universal Pan
Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance
Led on th Eternal Spring. Not that faire field
Of Enna, where Proserpin gathering flours
Her self a fairer Floure by gloomie Dis [ 270 ]
Was gatherd, which cost Ceres all that pain
To seek her through the world; nor that sweet Grove
Of Daphne by Orontes, and th inspird
Castalian Spring, might with this Paradise
Of Eden strive; nor that Nyseian Ile [ 275 ]
Girt with the River Triton, where old Cham,
Whom Gentiles Ammon call and Lybian Jove,
Hid Amalthea and her Florid Son
Young Bacchus from his Stepdame Rheas eye;
Nor where Abassin Kings thir issue Guard, [ 280 ]
Mount Amara, though this by som supposd
True Paradise uhe Ethiop Line
By Nilus head, enclosd with shining Rock,
A whole days journy high, but wide remote
From this Assyrian Garden, where the Fiend [ 285 ]
Saw undelighted all delight, all kind
Of living Creatures o sight and strange:
Two of far nobler shape ered tall,
Godlike erect, with native Honour clad
In naked Majestie seemd Lords of all, [ 290 ]
And worthie seemd, for in thir looks Divine
The image of thir glorious Maker shon,
Truth, wisdome, Sanctitude severe and pure,
Severe but in true filial freedom plact;
Wherue autority ihough both [ 295 ]
Not equal, as thir sex not equal seemd;
For plation hee and valour formd,
For softness shee and sweet attractive Grace,
Hee fod only, shee fod in him:
His fair large Front and Eye sublime declard [ 300 ]
Absolute rule; and Hyathin Locks
Round from his parted forelock manly hung
Clustring, but not beh his shoulders broad:
Shee as a vail down to the slender waste
Her unadorned golden tresses wore [ 305 ]
Disheveld, but in wantlets wavd
As the Vine curles her tendrils, which implid
Subje, but requird with gentle sway,
And by her yielded, by him best receivd,
Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, [ 310 ]
And sweet relut amorous delay.