255 PARADISE LOST. Boole IX. Ingaging me to emulate ! but (bort Of thy perfedion, how (hail I attain, Adam? from whole dear fide I b ialt me fprung; 965 And gladly of our union hear thee (peak, One heart, one foul in both ! whereof good proof This day affords; declaring thee refolv'd, Rather than death, or ought than Death more dread, Shall feparate us (link'd in love fo dear !) 970 To undergo with me one guilt, one crime, (If any be) of tatting this fair fruit ; Whole virtue (for of good (till good proceeds, DireI, or by occafion) bath prelented This happy tryal of thy love ; which elfe 975 So eminently never had been known. Were it I thought death menac'd w,)uld enfue This my attempt, I would fuflain alone The worfl, and not perfuade thee ; rather die Deferted, than oblige thee with a fact 980 Pernicious to thy peace, chiefly afTur'd Remarkably fo late of thy fo true, So faithful love unequal'd : but I feel Far otherwife th' event, not Death, but life Augmented ; open'd eyes, new hopes, new joys, 985 Tafte fo divine ! that what of fweet before Math touch'd my fenfe, flat feems to this, and harCh. On my experience Adam, freely talle, And fear of Death deliver to the winds. So laying, fhe embrac'd him, and for joy 99Q Tenderly wept ; much won, that he his love Had fo innobi'd, as of choice t' incur Divine difpleafure for her fake, or death. In recompenfe (for fuch compliance bad Such recompente belt merits) from the bough 995 She gave him of that fair-inticing fruit, With
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