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Show Tbe State of Innocence, and 604. <- : • " "x-fniFvps obferv'd his Flight, But I, with watchM E g o ^ H hf. And law him on yon eepy d _fide Then, as te^\$*&d his Pride: His borrow d Mask, ana ^.^. I mark d his toksa^jft^ Dusky ^£f^r^n rfto mot with hafte, On fome deep daiK W ' M , _ n.. , li IK S^Shades rill Night: Sareh well Each Gro e and Thicket, pry in every Shape, Left hi 1 in fome, th' Arch-Hvpocnte efdape! GMd If any Spirit come f invade or tcout Fron Hed what Earthy Fence can keep hm, out t Z eft fecure of this, he (hall be found, ,„,',,,„ or nrolcrib'dthishanpy Ground. AA t ThouP °o .be Eaft, I W e W a r d walkthe round, And -ueei tne in the midft. (VM) Heav'n your Defign. c A . VnnrCTiaree requires you, and me mine. Succeed. YonrChai^ ,^/ y^,. Tfc h » Agfa Exeuntforg. ^ M M </ < * £ * S U , Adam and Eve ^ « * ^ Lucifer. Zirrifcr. So, now they lie fecure in Love, and fteep Their fated Senfes in full Draughts of fleep. By what fure means can I their Blifs* invade? By Violence? No, for they're immortal made. Their Reafon fleeps, but Mimick fancy wakes 3 Supplies her parts, and wild Idea's takes • _ From Words and things ill-forted and mis-joynd; The Anarchy of Thought and Chaos of the Mind : Hence Dreams confus'd and various may arife 5 Thefe will 1 fet before the Woman's Eyes, The weaker fhe, and made m y eafier Prey 3 Vain Shows and Pomp the fofter Sex betray. ,.r . , T [Lucifer fits down by Eve, and feems to whifper tn her Ear. A Vifeon, where a Tree rifes loaden with Fruits 3 four Spirits rife with it^ and draw a Canopy out of the Tree; other Spirits dance about the Tree in deform d feiapcs 3 after the Dance, an Angel enters with a Woman, habited like Eve, Angels finging : Look up, look up, and fee What Heav'n prepares'for thee 3 Look up and this fair Fruit behold, Ruddy it fmiles, and rich with ftreaks of Gold. The loaden Branches downward bend, Willing they ftoop, and thy fair Hand attend. Fair Mother of Mankind, make hafte. And blefs, and blefs thy Senfes with the tafte. Woman. N o 3 'tis forbidden: I In rafting it fhall die. Angel. Say who enjoy'nd this harfh Command ? Woman. Twas Heav'n, and who can Heav'n withftand? Angel. W h y was it madefo Fair ? why plac'd in fight? Heav'n is too good to envy Man's Delight. See, we before thy Face will try, What thou fo fear'ft, and will not die. [The Angel tak's the Fruit, and gives to thc Spirits who danced 3 thy immediately put off their diformdfeupes, and appear Angels. Angels finging. Behold what a Change on a fudden is here! How glorious in Beauty, how bright they appear ! From Spirits deform'd they are Deities made, Their Pinions at Pleafue the Clouds can invade. , . [The Angel gives fo the Woman, who Eats. Till equal in Honour they rife TWh eint h taHfitem wwithhoo ucto Fmemaarn,d asn di nb eth hea Spkpiye sa:n d wife. Woman. FALL of MAN 601 Woman. Ah! now I believe; fuch a Pleafure I find, As enlightens m y Eyes, and enlivens m y Mind. ' , , iTf* S^its »h» ^e turn'd Angels, fly up when they have tailed I only repent J I deferr'd m y Content. Angel. N o w wifer Experience has taught you to prove W h a t a Folly it is, v / Out of Fear to fhun Blifs. To the Joy that's forbidden w e eagerly move; It enhances the Price, and encreafes the Love. Chorus of Both. To the Joy, &c. Two Angels defend; they take the Woman each by the Hand, and fly up with her out of fight. The Angel who fung, and the Spirits who Held the Canopy, at the fame infant fink down with the Tree. Enter Gabriel and Ithuriel to Lucifer, who remains. Gabriel. W h a t art thou ? fpeak, thy Name, and thy Intent. W h y here alone? and on what Errand fent? Not from above : No, thy wan Looks betray Diminifh'd Light, and Eyes unus'd to day. Lucifer. Not to know me, argues thy felf unknown: Time was, when fhining next th' Imperial Throne, I fate in awful State, while fuch as thou Did, in the ignoble Crowd, at diftance bow. Gabriel. Think'ft thou, vain Spirit, thy Glories are the fame? And feeft not Sin obfeures thy Godlike Frame ? I know the now by thy ungreateful Pride; That fhows m e what thy faded Looks did hide. Traytor to Him who made, a»d fet thee high; And Fool, that Pow'r which form'd thee to defie. Lucifer. Go, Slaves, return, and fawn in Heav'n again; Seek thanks from Him, whofe Quarrel you maintain. Vile Wretches! of your Servitude to boaft : You bafely keep the Place I bravely loft. Ithuriel. Freedom is choice of what we will and do: 2 Then blame not Servants w h o are freely fo. s 'Tis bafe not to acknowledge what we owe. !> Lucifer. Thanks, howe'er due, proclaim Subjection yet: I fought for Power to quit th' upbraided Debt. Whoe'er expects our Thanks, himfelf repays; And feems but little, w h o can want our Praife. Gabriel. What in us Duty, fhows not W a n t in Him: Bleft in Himfelf alone. To w h o m no Praife we, by good Deeds, can add; Nor can his Glory fuffer from our bad. Made for His life; yet He has form'd us fo, W e , unconftrain'd, what he commands us do. So p'raife we Him, and ferve Him freely beft 3 Thus thou, by choice, art fallen, and we are bleft. Ithuriel. This, left thou think thy Plea, unanfwer'd, good, Our Queftion thou evad'ft : H o w didft thou dare To break Hell Bounds, and near this Humane Pair In nightly ambufh lie ? , Lncifer. Lives there w h o would not feek to force his way From Pain to Eafe, from Darknefs to the Day? Should I, who found tbe means t'efeipe, not dare To change m y fulph'rous Smoke, for upper Air! W h e n I in fight fuftain'd your Thunderer, And Heav'n on m e alone fpent half his W a r, Think'ft thou thofe Wounds were light ? Should I not lecK Tlie Clemency of fome more temp'rate Clime To purge m y Gloom 3 and by the Sun refin. d. Bask in his Beams, and bleach m e in the W i n d ? MetGhaibnrkise lt.h yI fF Pelalionw tso t fhheu nf abmee acllou trhfye Bmuosu lnedf sf(thcearer,. |
