BOOK IX. PARADISE LOST. 26t Would thou hadfl hearken'd to my words,and flay'd With me, as I befought thee, when that flrange 1135 Defire of wand'ring this unhappy morn, know not whence poffefs'd thee ! We had then Retnain'd flill happy ; not, as now, defpoii'd Qt all our good, flaam'd, naked, miferable. Let none henceforth teek needlefs caufe t' approve i 140 The faith they owe ; when carnally they leek Such proof, conclude they then begin to fail. To whom, loon mov'd with touch of blame, thusEve What words have pais'd thy lips, Adam fevere I Impueft thou that to my default, or will 1145 Of wand'ring (as thou can't/ it) which, who knows But, might as ill have happen'd thou being by ; Or to thy felf perhaps : hada thou been there, Or here th' attempt, thou eould'it not have difcern'd Fraud in the serpent, fpeaking as he fpake ; 115o No ground of enmity between us known, Why he mould mean me ill, or feek to harm. Was I to have never parted from thy fide? As good have grown there flit' a lifeless rib. Being as I am, why didfl not thou, the Head, 1155 Command me abloiutely not to go. Going into tuch danger, as thou faid'a ? Too facil then, thou dicht not much gainfay ; Nay didft permit, approve, and fair dismifs. Hadft thou been firm, and fix'd in thy diffent, ii6ct Neither had I tranigrefs'd, nor thou with me, To whom then &II incens'd Adam reply'd : Is this the love, is this the recompenCe Of mine to Thee, ingrateful Eve ! expret Immutable, when thou wert loll, not I; 1165 Who might have liv'd, and joy'd immortal blifs Yet
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