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 ]