Empress, t long,
Beyond a roles, on a Flat,
Fast by a Fountain, one small t past
Of blowing Myrr
My conduct, I can bring ther soon. [ 630 ]
Lead tly rowld
In tangles, and made intricate seem strait,
to misc. es, and joy
Brig, as when a wandring Fire
Compact of unctuous vapor, w [ 635 ]
Condenses, and the cold invirons round,
Kindld tation to a Flame,
, t attends
,
Misleads t-wanderer from his way [ 640 ]
to Boggs and Mires, and oft through Pond or Poole,
t, from succour farr.
So glisterd to fraud
Led Eve our credulous Moto tree
Of proion, root of all our woe; [ 645 ]
o her guide she spake.
Serpent, we migher,
Fruitless to mee, t be o excess,
t of hee,
ondrous indeed, if cause of sucs. [ 650 ]
But of tree taste nor touch;
God so commanded, and left t Command
Sole Daug, we live
Lao our selves, our Reason is our Law.
to er guilefully replid. [ 655 ]
Indeed? of t
Of all trees ye s eate,
Yet Lords declard of all in Earth or Aire?
to
Of eacree in te, [ 660 ]
But of t of tree amidst
t eate
touc, least ye die.