Firm , yet possible to swerve,

    Since Reason not impossibly may meet [ 360 ]

    Some specious object by the Foe subornd,

    And fall into deception unaware,

    Not keeping strictest ch, as she was warnd.

    Seek not temptation to avoide

    ere better, and most likelie if from mee [ 365 ]

    t: trial .

    ouldst tancie, approve

    First ther who can know,

    Not seeing ttempted, ?

    But if trial unsought may finde [ 370 ]

    Us bot,

    Go; for tay, not free, absents thee more;

    Go in tive innocence, relie

    On  of vertue, summon all,

    For God to, do thine. [ 375 ]

    So spake triarc Eve

    Persisted, yet submiss, t, replid.

    ithus forewarnd

    C t reasoning words

    touc our trial, , [ 380 ]

    May finde us both perhaps farr less prepard,

    t

    A Foe so proud  the weaker seek,

    So bent, the more shall shame him his repulse.

    thus saying, from her husbands hand her hand [ 385 ]

    Soft s

    Oread or Dryad, or of Delias traine,

    Betook o t Delias self

    In gate surpassd and Goddess-like deport,

    t as sh Bow and Quiver armd, [ 390 ]

    But ools as Art yet rude,

    Guiltless of fire .

    to Pales, or Pomona, thus adornd,

    Likeliest she seemd, Pomona when she fled

    Vertumnus, or to Ceres in her Prime, [ 395 ]

    Yet Virgin of Proserpina from Jove.

    look his Eye pursud

    Delig desiring more ay.