To thee and to thy ofspring; good with bad
Expect to hear, fupernal grace contending

Vith finfulness of men; thereby to learn

360

True patience, and to temper joy with fear

And pious forrow, equally inur'd

Ey moderation either state to bear,

365

rofperous or adverse: so shalt thou lead
afeft thy life, and best prepar'd indure
Thy mortal paffage when it comes. Afcend
This hill; let Eve (for I have drench'd her eyes)
Here fleep below, while thou to forefight wak'st;
As once thou fleptft, while fhe to life was form'd.
To whom thus Adam gratefully reply'd.
Afcend, I follow thee, fafe Guide, the path
Thou lead'ft me', and to the hand of Heav'n fubmit,
However chaft'ning, to the evil turn

My obvious breaft, arming to overcome

tribe of mankind, but extends to the
whole fpecies. Addifon.
367.-let Eve (for I have drench'd
her eyes)

Here fleep below,] It may be asked why Eve was not permitted to fee this vifion, as fhe had no less occafion than Adam thereby to learn true patience: but Milton here only continues the fame decorum which he had before observed, when he made

370

By fuffering, and earn reft from labor won,
If fo I may attain. So both afcend

375

In the vifions of God: It was a hill
Of Paradise the higheft, from whose top
The hemifphere of earth in clearest ken
Stretch'd out to th' ampleft reach of profpect lay. 380
Not high'er that hill nor wider looking round,

377. In the vifions of God:] A Scripture expreffion. Ezek. VIII. 3. And the Spirit lift me up between the Earth and the Heaven, and brought me in the vifions of God to Jerufalem. a And again, Ezek. XL. 2. In the vifions of God brought he me into the land of Ifrael, and fet me upon a very high mountain. And thefe may very properly be call'd the vifions of God not only for difcovering things future, but likewife for the extenfiveness of the profpect, such as no human eye could reach. For upon the highest mountain the eye can command only a fmall part of the hemifphere by reafon of the roundnefs of the earth: but here a whole hemifphere lay ftretch'd out to view at once like a plain.

381. Not higher that hill &c.] That hill was not higher, whereon the Devil fet our Saviour (the fecond man 1 Cor. XV. 47. the laft Adam ver. 45.) to show him all the king doms of the world, and the glory of them. Matth. IV. 8. The profpects are well compared together, and the first thought of the one might probably be taken from the other: and as the one makes part of the fubject

Wherect

of Paradife Loft, fo doth the other of Paradife Regain'd.

387. from the deftin'd wal Of Cambalu, &c.] He firft take view of Afia, and there of the northern parts, the deftin`d walls res yet in being but defign'd to be (which is to be underflood of all the reft) of Cambalu, feat of Cothaian Can, the principal City of Cathay, a province of Tartary, the ancient feat of the Chams, and Se marchand by Oxus, the chief city of Zagathaian Tartary near the river Oxus, Temir's throne, the birth-place and royal refidence of Tamerlane; and from the northern he paffes to the eastern and fouthern parts of Afia, to Paquin or Pekin of Sinem kings, the royal city of China, the country of the ancient Sine men tion'd by Ptolomy, and thence to Agra and Labor two great cities in the empire of the great Mogul, don to the golden Cherfonefe, that is Malacca the moft fouthern promontory of the Eaft Indies, fo called on 20count of its riches to diftinguish from the other Cherfonefes or peni fula's, or where the Perfian in Ed tan fat, Ecbatana formerly the capital

Whereon for different cause the Tempter fet

ur fecond Adam in the wilderness,

o fhow him all earth's kingdoms and their glory. is eye might there command wherever stood 385 ity of old or modern fame, the feat

f mightiest empire, from the deftin'd walls f Cambalu, feat of Cathaian Can,

And

y of Perfia, or fince in Hifpaban, brought gold, to the realm of Congo, capital city at prefent, or where a kingdom in the lower Ethiopia Ruffian Kfar the Czar of Muf- on the western fhore, as the others y in Mofco, the metropolis of all were on the eastern, and Angola farffia, or the Sultan in Bizance, the theft fouth, another kingdom fouth and Signior in Conftantinople of Congo; Or thence from Niger rmerly Byzantium, Turcbeftan born, flood, the river Niger that divides the Turks came from Turcheftan Negroland into two parts, to Atlas province of Tartary; he reckons mount in the most western parts of efe to Afia, as they are adjoining, Africa, the kingdoms of Almanfor, the d great part of their territories countries over which Almanfor was in Afia. He paffes now into king, namely Fez and Sus, Marocco frica; nor could his eye not ken th' and Algiers, and Tremifen, all kingpire of Negus, the Upper Ethiopia doms in Barbary. After Africa he the land of the Abyffinians, fub- comes to Europe, On Europe thence, t to one sovran, ftiled in their and where Rome was to fway the wn language Negus or king, and world: the lefs is faid of Europe as the Europeans Prefter John, to his it is fo well known. In Spirit permoft port Ercoco, or Erquico on the haps he alfo faw, he could not fee it ed Sea, the north east boundary otherwife as America was on the the Abyffinian empire, and the oppofit fide of the globe, rich Mexico is maritim kings, the leffer king- in North America the feat of Monoms on the fea coaft, Mombaza, tezume, who was fubdued by the rd Quiloa, and Melind, all near the Spanish general Cortes, and Cufco in ne in Zanguebar, a great region Peru in South America, the richer f the Lower Ethiopia on the eaftern feat of Atabalipa, the laft emperor Indian fea, and fubject to the ortuguese, and Sofala thought Ophir, other kingdom and city on the me fea miftaken by Purchas and thers for Ophir, whence Solomon

fubdued by the Spanish general Pizarro, and yet unfpoil'd Guiana, another country of South America not then invaded and spoil'd, whofe great city, namely Manhoa, Geryon's fons,

the

And Samarchand by Oxus, Temir's throne,

To Paquin of Sinæan kings, and thence
To Agra and Lahor of great Mogul
Down to the golden Cherfonese, or where
The Perfian in Ecbatan fat, or fince
In Hifpahan, or where the Ruffian Kfar
In Mofco, or the Sultan in Bizance,
Turcheftan-born; nor could his eye not ken
Th' empire of Negus to his utmost port
Ercoco, and the less maritim kings
Mombaza, and Quiloa, and Melind,
And Sofala thought Ophir, to the realm

the Spaniards from Geryon an ancient king of Spain, call El Dorado or the golden city on account of its richness and extent. And thus he furveys the four different parts of the world, but it must be confefs'd, more with an oftentation of learning, than with any additional beauty to the poem. But Mr. Thyer is of opinion, that fuch little fallies of the Muse agreeably enough diverfify the scene, and obferves that Taffo, whofe Godfrey is no very imperfect model of a regular epic poem, has in his fifteenth Canto employed thirty or forty ftanza's together in a defcription of this fort, Which had no necefary connexion with his general plan.

409.
and yet unfpoil'd
Guiana,] I fuppofe Milton alluded

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Of

Of Congo, and Angola fartheft fouth;
Or thence from Niger ftood to Atlas mount
The kingdoms of Almanfor, Fez and Sus,
Marocco and Algiers, and Tremifen;

On Europe thence, and where Rome was to sway

The world: in spi'rit perhaps he also saw

Rich Mexico the feat of Montezume,

And Cusco in Peru, the richer feat

Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoil'd

Guiana, whofe great city Geryon's fons
Call El Dorado: but to nobler fights
Michael from Adam's eyes the film remov'd,