Great are tues, doubtless, best of Fruits. [ 745 ]

    t from Man, and o be admird,

    aste, too long forborn, at first assay

    Gave elocution to te, and taught

    tongue not made for Speeco speak thy praise:

    thy use, [ 750 ]

    Conceales not from us, naming tree

    Of Knoh of good and evil;

    Forbids us to taste, but his forbidding

    Commends t inferrs the good

    By ted, and our : [ 755 ]

    For good unkno had, or had

    And yet unkno  all.

    In plain t forbids  to know,

    Forbids us good, forbids us to be wise?

    Sucions binde not. But if Death [ 760 ]

    Bind us er-bands, s then

    Our ine

    Of t, our doom is, we shall die.

    ? n and lives,

    And knows, and speaks, and reasons, and discerns, [ 765 ]

    Irrational till then. For us alone

    as deated? or to us denid

    tellectual food, for beasts reservd?

    For Beasts it seems: yet t one Beast w

    asted, envies not, but brings h joy [ 770 ]

    t,

    Friendly to man, farr from deceit or guile.

    fear I t knoo feare

    Under this ignorance of good and Evil,

    Of God or Deatie? [ 775 ]

    Divine,

    Fair to ting to taste,

    Of vertue to make wise: w hen

    to reac once both Bodie and Mind?

    So saying, her rash hand in evil hour [ 780 ]

    Forto t, s:

    Eart ture from

    Sighrough all her orks gave signs of woe,

    t all . Back to t slunk

    tie Serpent, and , for Eve [ 785 ]

    Intent noe, naught else

    Regarded, suc till then, as seemd,

    In Fruit sasted, wrue

    Or fansied so, tation high

    Of knowledg, nor was God-. [ 790 ]