How we might best fulfil the work which here Of looks and fmiles, for fmiles from reafon flow, He made us, and delight to reason join'd. 230 235 240 These paths and bow'rs doubt not but our joint hands 239. fmiles from reafon flow,] Smiling is fo great an indication of reason, that fome philofophers have alter'd the definition of man from animal rationale to rifibile, affirming man to be the only creature endowed with the power of laughter. Hume. For 244. Thefe paths and boro'rs] So it is in the first and best editions, and not The paths and bow'rs, as both Dr. Bentley and Mr. Fenton have by mistake printed it. 249. is beft fociety,] As Scipio For folitude fometimes is best society, And short retirement urges sweet return. 250 But other doubt poffeffes me, left harm Befall thee fever'd from me; for thou know'ft Conjugal love, than which perhaps no blifs 255 260 Or this, or worse, leave not the faithful fide. 265 That gave thee be'ing, ftill fhades thee and protects. The wife, where danger or dishonor lurks, Safest and seemlieft by her husband stays, Who guards her, or with her the worst indures. 270 As one who loves, and fome unkindness meets, Our ruin, both by thee inform'd I learn, 275 And from the parting Angel over-heard, As in a fhady nook I ftood behind, Juft then return'd at shut of evening flowers. To natural notation of evening is this! and a proper time for her, who had gone forth among her fruits and flowers, VIII. 44. to return. But we must not conceive that Eve is fpeaking of the evening laft paft, for this was a week ago. Satan was caught tempting Eve in a dream, and йed out of Paradife that night, and with this ends book the fourth. After he had fled out of Paradife, he was ranging round the world feven days: but we have not any account of Adam and Eve excepting only on the first of thofe days, which begins with the beginning of book the fifth, where Eve relates her dream; that day at noon the Angel Raphael comes down from Heaven; the Angel and Adam difcourfe together till evening, and they part at the end of book the eighth. To God or thee, because we have a foe 280 His fraud is then thy fear, which plain infers 285 Thy equal fear that my firm faith and love Can by his fraud be fhaken or feduc'd; Thoughts, which how found they harbour in thy breast, Adam, mifthought of her to thee fo dear? To whom with healing words Adam reply'd. 290 Daughter of God and Man, immortal Eve, eighth. There are fix days therefore paft in filence, and we hear no more of Adam and Eve, till Satan had stolen again into Paradise. 282. His violence thou fear'ft not,] Adam had not faid fo exprefly, but had implied as much in inlarging particularly upon his fly affault, ver. 256. &c. 289. Adam, mifthought of her to thee fo dear? Dr. Bentley fays that these words exprefs Adam's affection to her, and not hers to him, as the fenfe requires: He therefore reads- to thee fo true? But Milton gave it dear, and made Eve here allude to what Adam had faid of her in ver. 227. -to me beyond 291. Daughter of God and Man, immortal Eve,] As Eve had called Adam Ofspring of Heav'n and Earth, as made by God out of the duft of the Earth; fo Adam calls Eve Daughter of God and Man, as made by God out of Man; and acknowledges her to be immortal, as she had faid herself, ver. 283. that they were not capable of death or pain; but only fo long as fhe was entire from fin and blame: integer vitæ, fcelerifque purus. Hor. Od. I. XXII. I. K 3 312. - while For fuch thou art, from fin and blame entire: Thy abfence from my fight, but to avoid Th' attempt itself, intended by our foe. 295 For he who tempts, though' in vain, at least asperses From thee alone, which on us both at once 300 305 310 More unite and add vigor to wisdom, watchfulness, and every virtue mention'd before. If this be not the meaning, it must be understood thus, Would raise the utmoft vigor, and unite and collect it all when rais'd. 318. domeftic Adam] This epithet |