t not but our joynt hands
ill keep from ilderness h ease, as wide [ 245 ]
As ill younger hands ere long
Assist us: But if much converse perhaps
tiate, to s absence I could yield.
For solitude somtimes is best societie,
And s retirement urges s returne. [ 250 ]
But ot possesses me, least harm
Befall t
malicious Foe
Envying our happiness, and of his own
Despairing, seeks to work us woe and shame [ 255 ]
By sly assault; and somw hand
atc, o find
advantage, us asunder,
o circumvent us joynd, where each
to ot lend at need; [ 260 ]
design be to hdraw
Our fealtie from God, or to disturb
Conjugal Love, then which perhaps no bliss
Enjoyd by us excites his envie more;
Or t thful side [ 265 ]
t gave till sects.
the ife, where danger or dishonour lurks,
Safest and seemliest by aies,
endures.
to wie of Eve, [ 270 ]
As one ws,
it austeer composure thus replyd,
Ofspring of hs Lord,
t such an Enemie we have, who seeks
Our ruin, bothee informd I learne, [ 275 ]
And from ting Angel over-heard
As in a sood behind,
Just turnd at s of Evening Flours.
But t t my firmness t
to God or thee, because we have a foe [ 280 ]
May tempt it, I expected not to hear.