ts and drinks they had sufficd [ 450 ]

    Not burdnd Nature, sudden mind arose

    In Adam, not to let th occasion pass

    Given  Conference to know

    Of thir being [ 455 ]

    ho dwell in heavn, whose excellence he saw

    transcend  forms

    Divine effulgence, whose high Power so far

    Exceeded human, and his wary speech

    to ter he framd. [ 460 ]

    Inant h God, now know I well

    to man,

    Under saft

    to enter, and ts to taste,

    Food not of Angels, yet accepted so, [ 465 ]

    As t more  not seem

    At s to  w compare?

    to whe winged hierarch replid.

    O Adam, one Almightie is, from whom

    All to urn, [ 470 ]

    If not depravd from good, created all

    Suco perfection, one first matter all,

    Indud h various forms, various degrees

    Of substance, and in t live, of life;

    But more refind, more spiritous, and pure, [ 475 ]

    As neerer to  or neerer tending

    Eacive Sphears assignd,

    till body up to spirit work, in bounds

    Proportiond to eac

    Springs ligalk, from the leaves [ 480 ]

    More aerie, last t consummate floure

    Spirits odorous breat

    Mans nouris, by gradual scale sublimd

    to vital Spirits aspire, to animal,

    to intellectual, give both life and sense, [ 485 ]

    Fansie and understanding, whe Soule

    Reason receives, and reason is her being,

    Discursive, or Intuitive; discourse

    I