BOOK VIM PARADISE LOST. 215 4, The pledge of thy obedience and thy faith, 325 CC Amid the garden by the Tree of Life, 4, (Remember what I warn thee !) Ihun to tale, And fhun the bitter confequence ; for know, The day th-)u eatht thereof, my foie command Tranfgreft, inevitably thou (halt dye ; 330 4C From that day mortal : and this happy hate Shalt lofe, expeli'd from hence into a world Of woe and forrow."-Sternly he pronounc'd The rigid interdiaion, which refounds Yet dreadful in mine ear, though in my choice 335 Not to incur: but loon his clear aiped Return'd, and gracious purpole thus renew'd. " Not only thefe fair bounds, but all the earth " To thee and to thy race l give : as Lords it Poffefs it, and all things that therein live, 340 c, Or live in lea, or air, beaft, fifh, and fowl ; c, In fign whereof, each bird, and beah, behold it After their kinds : I bring them to receive " From thee their names, and pay thee fealty With low fubjeaion : underhand the fame 345 4, Of fi.h within their watry refidence, 4, Not hither fummon'd, fiance they cannot change " Their element to draw the thinner air." As thus he fpake, each bird and beaft behold Approaching, two and two; thefe, cow'ring low 350 With blanclifhment ; each bird floop'd on his wing. I natn'd them, as they pafs'd, and underflood Their nature (with fuch knowledge God indu'd My fudden apprehenlion !) but in thefe I found not what me-thought I wanted hill; And to the heav'nly Vifion thus prefum'd. 0 by what name (for thou above all there, Above mankind, or ought than mankind higher, Surpairell 355
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