t not but our joynt hands

    ill keep from ilderness h ease, as wide [ 245 ]

    As ill younger hands ere long

    Assist us: But if much converse perhaps

    tiate, to s absence I could yield.

    For solitude somtimes is best societie,

    And s retirement urges s returne. [ 250 ]

    But ot possesses me, least harm

    Befall t

    malicious Foe

    Envying our happiness, and of his own

    Despairing, seeks to work us woe and shame [ 255 ]

    By sly assault; and somw hand

    atc, o find

    advantage, us asunder,

    o circumvent us joynd, where each

    to ot lend at need; [ 260 ]

    design be to hdraw

    Our fealtie from God, or to disturb

    Conjugal Love, then which perhaps no bliss

    Enjoyd by us excites his envie more;

    Or t thful side [ 265 ]

    t gave till sects.

    the ife, where danger or dishonour lurks,

    Safest and seemliest by aies,

    endures.

    to wie of Eve, [ 270 ]

    As one ws,

    it austeer composure thus replyd,

    Ofspring of hs Lord,

    t such an Enemie we have, who seeks

    Our ruin, bothee informd I learne, [ 275 ]

    And from ting Angel over-heard

    As in a sood behind,

    Just turnd at s of Evening Flours.

    But t t my firmness t

    to God or thee, because we have a foe [ 280 ]

    May tempt it, I expected not to hear.