14 THE ARGUMENTS duces her at length to eat ; the pleas'd with the mile deliberates a while whether to impart thereof to Adam or not, at left brings him of the fruit, relates what perluaded her to eat thereof : Adam at firft amaz'd, but perceiving her loft, refolves through vehemence of love to perifh with her ; and extenuating the trefpafs eats alfo of the fruit ; The effeds thereof in them both ; they leek to cover their nakednefs ; then fall to variance and accufation of one another. THE ARGUMENT OF THE TENTH BOOK. MAN's tranfgrellion known, the guardian Angels forfak e Paradife, and return up to Heaven to approve their vigilance, and are apps ov'd, God declaring that the entrance of Satan could not be by them pre- vemted. He fends his Son to judge the tranfgeeffors, who defcends and gives fentence accordingly ; then in pity clothes them both, and reafcends. Sin and Death fitting till then at the gates of Hell, by wondrous fympathy feeling the fuccefs of Satan in this new world, and the fin by Man there committed, refolv'd to fit no longer confin'd in Hell, but to follow Satan their fire up to the place of Man : To make the way eafier from Hell to this world to and fro, they pave a broad high-way or bridge over Chaos, according to the Track that Satan firft made ; then preparing for Earth, they meet him proud of his fuccefs returning to Hell ; their mutual gratulation. Satan arrives at Pandemonium, in full affembly relates with boafting his fuccefs againif Man ; inilead of applaufe is entertained with d general hits by all his audience, transform'd with himfelf alfo feddenlv into Serpents, according to his doom given in Paradife ; then deluded with a Phew of the forbidden tree fpringing up before them, they greedily reaching to take of the fruit, chew dull and bitter afhes. The proceedings of Sin and Death ; God foretels the final vidory of his Son over them, and the renewing of all things; but for the prefent commands his Angels to make feveral alterations in the Heavens and elements. Adam more and More perceiving his fali'n condition heavily be. wails, taj-ds the condolement of Eve ; the perfifls, and at length appeafes him . then to evade the curie likely to fall on their offspring, propofes to Adam violent ways, which he approves not, but conceiv- ing better hope, puts her in mind of the late promife made them, that her feed fhould be reveng'd on the Serpent, and exhorts her with him to feek peace of the offended Deity, by repentance And fupplication. T H E
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