Boox IL PARADISE REGAIN'D. 503 And by the Angel was bid rife and eat, And eat the fecond time after repote, The flrength whereof fuffic'd him forty days ; Sometimes that with Elijah he partook, Or as a guefl with Daniel at his pulfe. Thus wore out night, and now the herald lark Left his ground nett, high tow'ring to defcry The morn's approach, and greet her with his long As lightly from his graffy couch up rote Our Saviour, and found all was but a dream, Fatting he went to fleep, and fatting wak'd. Up to a hill anon his Reps he rear'd, 285 From whole high top to ken the profpe& round, If cottage were in view, fheep-cote or herd ; But cottage, herd, or cheep-cote none he law, Only in a bottom law a pleafant grove, Wikh chaunt of tuneful birds refounding loud ; 290 Thither he bent his way, determin'd there To reit at noon, and enter'd foon the ihade I-fgh rooft, and walks beneath, and alleys brown, Th t open'd in the midtt a woody fcene ; Nature's own work it feem'd (nature taught aft) 295 And to a funerffitious eye the haunt [round, Of Wood-Gods and Wood-Nymphs ; he view'd it When fuddenly a man before him flood, Not ruflic as before, but feemlier clad As one in city', or court, or palace bred, 3oo And with fair fpeech there words to him addrefs'd. With granted leave officious I return, But much more wonder that the Son of God In this wild folitude fo long fhould bide Of all things deftitute, and well I know, Not without hunger. Others of fome note, As Rory tells, have trod this wildernefs ; The fugitive bond-woman with her fon 275 280 305
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