hall bring on men. Immediately a place Of ghaftly fpafm, or racking torture, qualms 480 485 and moon-struck madness, pining atrophy, Marafmus, and wide-wafting peftilence, Dropfies, and afthma's, and joint-racking rheums. Dire was the toffing, deep the groans; Defpair `ended the fick bufieft from couch to couch; 490 per! The paffion, which likewife es in Adam on this occafion, is ry natural. The discourse between eAngel and Adam which follows, ounds with noble morals. Addifon. 487. Marafmus,] The word is Demoniac phrenzy, moaping me- And Marafmus, and wide-walling peftilence, were not in the firft, but were added by the author in the fecond edition, to fwell the horror of the defcription. Dr. Bentley is for flriking them out again, but Mr. Pope fays they are three admirable lines. 489. Dire was the toffing, deep the groans; Defpair &c.] This is entirely in the picturefque manner of Spenfer, and feems to allude particularly to that beautiful paffage, where defcribing the way to Pluto's grify reign, he reprefents Pain, Strife, Revenge, &c. as fo many perfons Z 2 affem And over them triumphant Death his dart affembled, and over them fad Horror The breaks and pauses in this verse Dire was the toffing, deep the groans; Despair Subftitute any other word in the room of dire or deep, and you will perceive the difference. And then follows 500 What we receive, would either not accept Can thus o goodly and erect, though faulty since, To fuch unfightly fufferings be debas'd Under inhuman pains? Why fhould not man, n part, from fuch deformities be free, And for his Maker's image fake exempt? 505 510 Their Maker's image, anfwer'd Michael, then 515 Forfook them, when themselves they vilify'd To ferve ungovern'd appetite, and took His image whom they ferv'd, a brutish vice, much of the fire and fpirit would e loft. The reader may fee other eauties of the fame kind in the note pon IV. 351. And there are feveal examples of it in Homer, but he Latin language feems hardly caable of it; at leaft I cannot recolect an instance in Virgil, who is the great mafter of verfification. 495. Adam wept, Though not of woman born; compaffion quell'd His beft of man, and gave him up to tears] This thought (as Mr. Whalley obferves) is certainly from Shakespear, whofe words Mil In ton has preferved at the clofe of the I had not fo much of man about me, Henry V. A& IV. 517. To ferve ungovern'd appetite,] Appetite here is made a perfon: and took his image whom they ferv'd, that is ungovern'd appetite's, a brati vice, that was the principal occafion of the fin of Eve, inductive mainly to the fin of Eve. How different is this image from God's image, when (as we read in IV. 291.) 23 - in Inductive mainly to the fin of Eve. Therefore so abject is their punishment, I yield it just, said Adam, and submit. 520 525 There is, faid Michael, if thou well obferve 530 The rule of not too much, by temp'rance taught, In what thou eat'ft and drink'st, seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return: So may'ft thou live, till like ripe fruit thou drop 535 to thy mother's lap, or be with ease Father'd, not harshly pluck'd, for death mature: "his is old age; but then thou must outlive "hy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change "o wither'd, weak, and gray; thy fenfes then 540 btufe, all taste of pleasure must forgo, To what thou haft; and for the air of youth, o weigh thy fpirits down, and last consume 545 550 Nor |
