fruit Of all these garden-trees ye shall not eat, Yet lords declared of all in Earth or air?”
To whom thus Eve, yet sinless: “Of the fruit Of each tree in the garden we may eat; But of the fruit of this fair tree amidst The garden, God hath said, ‘Ye shall not eat Thereof, nor shall ye touch it, lest ye die.’ ”
She scarce had said, though brief, when now more bold The Tempter, but with show of zeal and love To Man, and indignation at his wrong, New part puts on, and, as to passion moved, Fluctuates disturbed, yet comely, and in act Raised, as of some great matter to begin. As when of old some orator renowned In Athens or free Rome, where eloquence Flourished, since mute, to some great cause addressed, Stood in himself collected, while each part, Motion, each act, won audience ere the tongue, Sometimes in highth began, as no delay Of preface brooking through his zeal of right: So standing, moving, or to highth upgrown, The Tempter, all impassioned, thus began: