ts and drinks they had sufficd [ 450 ]

    Not burdnd Nature, sudden mind arose

    In Adam, not to let th occasion pass

    Given  Conference to know

    Of thir being [ 455 ]

    ho dwell in heavn, whose excellence he saw

    transcend  forms

    Divine effulgence, whose high Power so far

    Exceeded human, and his wary speech

    to ter he framd. [ 460 ]

    Inant h God, now know I well

    to man,

    Under saft

    to enter, and ts to taste,

    Food not of Angels, yet accepted so, [ 465 ]

    As t more  not seem

    At s to  w compare?

    to whe winged hierarch replid.

    O Adam, one Almightie is, from whom

    All to urn, [ 470 ]

    If not depravd from good, created all

    Suco perfection, one first matter all,

    Indud h various forms, various degrees

    Of substance, and in t live, of life;

    But more refind, more spiritous, and pure, [ 475 ]

    As neerer to  or neerer tending

    Eacive Sphears assignd,

    till body up to spirit work, in bounds

    Proportiond to eac

    Springs ligalk, from the leaves [ 480 ]

    More aerie, last t consummate floure

    Spirits odorous breat

    Mans nouris, by gradual scale sublimd

    to vital Spirits aspire, to animal,

    to intellectual, give both life and sense, [ 485 ]

    Fansie and understanding, whe Soule

    Reason receives, and reason is her being,

    Discursive, or Intuitive; discourse

    Is oftest yours, tter most is ours,

    Differing but in degree, of kind the same. [ 490 ]

    onder not t God for you saw good

    If I refuse not, but convert, as you,

    to proper substance; time may come when men

    iticipate, and find

    No inconvenient Diet, nor too light Fare: [ 495 ]

    And from triments perhaps

    Your bodies may at last turn all to Spirit,

    Improvd by tract of time, and wingd ascend

    Et choice

    here or in heavnly Paradises dwell; [ 500 ]

    If ye be found obedient, and retain

    Unalterably firm ire

    hose progenie you are. Mean while enjoy

    Your fill e

    Can comprehend, incapable of more. [ 505 ]

    to wriarch of mankind replid,

    O favourable spirit, propitious guest,

    ell  taug mig

    Our knoure set

    From center to circumference, whereon [ 510 ]

    In contemplation of created things

    By steps o God. But say,

    meant t caution joind, if ye be found

    Obedient? can  obedience then

    to  [ 515 ]

    , and placd us here

    Full to tmost measure of w bliss

    human desires can seek or apprehend?