Audience. Your Self is of the Number the Mute Colours Speak.

683

Deem'd However Wife.

Let them be Thought Never fo Wife, as well as High in Dignity.

686

it gives you Life

to Knowledge? by the Threatner, Look on Me,

the Points are Mifplac'd in the Best Editions; They should have been Thus.

it gives you Life

to Knowledge, by the Threatner? Look on Me, the Sence is Disturb'd by this Overfight.

716 And what are Gods that Man may not

become

as They, participating God-like Food? the Same Notion as That of the Angel Raphael. V.493.

739 Mean while the Hour of Noon drew on, and wak'd

an Eager Appetite,

the Body Concurr'd with the Mind as Ufual; Both are gone Over to the Enemy.

744 Paufing a while, Thus to her Self shee Mus'd.

fhe Imagines the is Confulting Reafon; Alas, Reason, or the Shadow of it is Now a Confe

derate

derate with the Enemy. None fo Dangerous as a Falfe, Pretended Friend. This Whole Soliloquy is the Language of Pride, Luft of Forbidden Knowledge, Appetite; Infidelity with regard to God, and Confidence in the Serpent. This Who has not Experienc'd in Some Degree? But most Men feem to Truft to God's Forgiving Goodnefs; Eve's Tranfgreffion was with a Mind Destitute of That Small remain of Piety, 'tis full of Atheistical Prefumption, and Abfurdity.

784

Back to the Thicket Slunk

the Guiltie Serpent,

and with Him Sathan, Inmate Bad, a farther Account of him is found, X. 332. His Bufiness was Now to Avoid being Discover'd; the Great Affair for the Sake of which he had taken fo much Pains, and Ventur'd on Such Dangers was Now Effected; as for Adam he Trufted his New Friend Eve to Manage Him; fhe is Now become, inftead of God's Laft Beft Gift, Fitteft Imp of Fraud. Every One has a Predominant Paffion too oft too Potent for Reafon. Jam. i. 13, 14. Let no Man fay when he is Tempted I am Tempted of God:

but every Man is Tempted, when he is drawn away of his Own Luft and Enticed.

792 And knew not Eating Death. Unmindful, as v. 432. 'tis a Greek Phrafe,

us'd

us'd often by the Latins too. Oppian Halieut. II. 106.

δ ̓ ενόησαν σπεύδον]ες ὄλεθρον.

they knew not Haft'ning their Death. the Good Seed was Choaked with the Pleasures of Sin, as Luke viii. 14. Eating the Fruit which brought Death was Eating Death as being Virtually contain'd in it.

795

Precious of all Trees

the Pofitive for the Superlative; the Moft Precious of all Trees. So Plaut. Rud. IV. 4. Eo tacent quia tacita bona 'ft Mulier femper quam loquens.

as Virg. Æn. IV. 57′. Sequimur te Sancte Deorum,& Hom. II. E. 381. Aia Deάwv, &c.

799

my Earlie Care

Eve us'd to be Early at her Business, IV. 623. v. 457. of this Book. XI. 275.

805 Though Others Envie

She Now was Arriv'd to Think as the Enemy had Taught her, v. 729. See also IV. 517.

807 Experience, next to Thee I owe, She had Complimented the Tree already, Next I am Oblig'd to Thee Experience; the Serpent's, v. 765 and her Own 787. I Owe, Abfolute; very Elegant!

812 High and Remote to fee from Thence Diftinct a Greek

a Greek and Latin Manner of Speaking.

Dubiis quis litibus addere finem

Juftior, & merfum latebris educere verum Claud. IV. Conf. Honor. 511.

835 But first low Reverence done, as to the Power

that dwelt within.

Eve falling into Idolatry upon the Taste of the Forbidden Tree, as the First Fruit of Difobedience is Finely Imagin'd.

845

Divine of Somthing Ill,

Foretelling, Boding Something Ill.

and Latin Phrase.

Imbrium Divina avis imminentium

So Milton VI. 428.

a Greek

Hor. O. III. 27, 10.

846 Mifgave him, he the Faultring Measure felt

two Lines before describe the Joy of Heart which Adam, who had been providing a Garland for his Abfent Wife, found, Now that Joy is Mixt with an Unusual Fear; That Heart Mifgave him, Either as it prefented him with what was Ill, or fail'd when it attempted to offer him Joy; at the fame time he felt the Faultring Measure, the Unequal Pulfes and Throbbings which None are Igno

rant of.

853

in her Face Excufe

came

came Prologue, and Apology to Prompt, which with Bland Words at Will fhe Thus

addreft.

She put on thofe forc'd Smiles and Appearances of Love and Joy, which yet were intended as Silent Pleadings in Extenuation, or to Cover a Conscioufnefs of Guilt, and to prepare for a Verbal Apology which follow'd in Words, never wanting to Eve; Bland pleafing, Soft, Fawning, &c. See v. 886.

858

not felt,

Agony of Love 'till Now

Agony is Great, Violent, Anxiety and Disturbance of Mind; This mix'd with Love is a New Compofition not Before felt in Paradife. Miftruft, Taking Amifs and Concealing Real Sentiments had been Before. Eden is Withering Apace.

886 Thus Eve with Countenance Blithe ber Story told;

But in her Cheek Distemper Flushing Glowd. All was not Right within: The Blithe, the Cheerful, Glad Countenance Betray'd it Self in Confcious Blufhes, Diffimulation and Shame, First Fruits of Sin; They rife Thick. See v. 853.

890 Blank, or Blanc

White, Pale; but Metaphorically 'tis Empty, void, as Chart-blanc, a void Paper, and Thus