Now Heavn in all her Glorie shon, and rowld
Her motions, as the great first-Movers hand [ 500 ]
First wheeld thir course; Earth in her rich attire
mate lovly smild; Aire,, Water, Earth,
By Fowl, Fish, Beast, was flown, was swum, was walkt
Frequent; and of the Sixt day yet remaind;
There wanted yet the Master work, the end [ 505 ]
Of all yet don; a Creature who not prone
And Brute as other Creatures, but endud
With Sanctitie of Reason, might erect
His Stature, and upright with Front serene
Govern the rest, self-knowing, and from thence [ 510 ]
Magnanimous to correspond with Heavn,
But grateful to aowledge whence his good
Desds, thither with heart and void eyes
Directed iion, to adore
And worship God Supream, who made him chief [ 515 ]
Of all his works: therefore the Omnipotent
Eternal Father (For where is not hee
Present) thus to his Son audibly spake.
Let us make now Man in our image, Man
In our similitude, ahem rule [ 520 ]
Over the Fish and Fowle of Sea and Aire,,
Beast of the Field, and over all the Earth,
And every creeping thing that creeps the ground.
This said, he formd thee, Adam, thee O Man
Dust of the ground, and in thy nostrils breathd [ 525 ]
The breath of Life; in his own Image hee
Created thee, in the Image of God
Express, and thou becamst a living Soul.
Male he created thee, but thy sort
Female for Race; then blessd Mankinde, and said, [ 530 ]
Be fruitful, multiplie, and fill the Earth,
Subdue it, and throughout Dominion hold
Over Fish of the Sea, and Fowle of the Aire,,
And every living thing that moves on the Earth.