Where lonely dost thou leave me?
O too disgusting apple,

If thou canst render man to angels hateful.
Alas, my dread destruction

Springs from a source so high,

That it will find no end.

Most miserable Adam! if thou fallest,

Ah who will raise thee up?

If those eternal hands

That should uphold the heav'n, the world, and man, Clos'd for thy good, are open for thy ill,

How much should'st thou express! but tears, and

grief

Fetter the tongue, and overwhelm the heart!
O sin! O agony!

Eve. Adam, my Adam, I will call thee mine,
Altho' I may have lost thee!

Unhappy Eve acknowledges her error,

She weeps, and she laments it,

She sees thee in great anguish :

O could her tears wash out the grievous stain
Thou hast upon thy visage ;

Adam! alas thou answer'st not, and I
Suffer in seeing thee so pale and pensive!

Thy hands united in the folds of pain!
But, if thro' deed of mine thou hast occasion
For endless shame, and silence,

Wilt thou reply to me? do I deserve it?

I merit only woe by being woman;
Eve has invented weeping,

Eve has discover'd anguish,

Labour, and lassitude,

Distraction, and affright,

Eve! Eve has minister'd to death, and hell!
Adam. Enjoy, enjoy O woman

My anguish, my perdition, and my death!
Banish me hence for loving thee too well;
Ah if thou wert desirous of my tears,

Now, now extend thy hands, receive these streams
That I must pour abundant from mine eyes;
If thou didst wish my sighs, lo sighs I give thee;

If anguish, view it! if my blood, tis thine!
Rather my death, it will be easy to thee
Now to procure my death,

If thou hast render'd me of life unworthy!

The ARCHANGEL MICHAEL, ADAM, and EVE.

Michael. Why this delay? come on, be quick,

depart

Corrupted branches from this fair, and beauteous Terrestrial paradise; are ye so bold

Ye putrid worms? come on, be quick, depart,
Since with a scourge of fire I thus command you.
Adam. Alas! I am destroy'd

By the fierce blow of this severe avenger !
Eve. Now sunk in vital power

I feel my sad existence,

E'en at the menace from this scourge of fire!

Michael. These stony plains now must thy naked

foot

Press in the stead of sweet and beauteous flow'rs
Since thy erroneous folly

Forbids thy dwelling in this pleasant garden.
Behold, in me the punisher of those,

Who 'gainst their God rebel, and hence I bear
These radiant arms, that with tremendous power
Make me invincible; I was the spirit,
Who, in the mighty conflict

Advancing to the north

Struck down great Lucifer, the haughty leader
Of wicked angels, so that into hell

They plung'd precipitate, and all subdued ;
And thus it has scem'd good to my tremendous
Celestial chief, that I shall also drive

Man, rebel to his God, with this my sword

Of everblazing fire,

Drive him for ever from this seat of bliss!
You angels all depart, and now with me
Expand your plumes for heav'n,

As it has been your lot,

Like mine, on earth here to rejoice with man,

Man once a demi god, and now but dust,
Here soon with falchions arm'd,

Falchions that blaze with fire,

As guardians of these once delightful gates
The brave and active Cherubim shall aid you.

SCENE THE NINTH.

Chorus of ANGELS that sing, ARCh Angel, Adam, and EvE.

Adieu remain in peace!

O thou that liv'st in war!

Alas how much it grieves us,

Great sinner, to behold thee now but dust↓

Weep! weep! indulge thy sighs,

And view thy lost possession now behind thee,

Weep! weep! for all thy sorrow

Thou yet may'st see exchang'd for songs of joy :

This promise to the sinner heav'n affords
Who contrite turns to heav'n with holy zeal.

END OF THE THIRD ACT.

ACT THE FOURTH.

SCENE THE FIRST.

VOLAN, Chorus of FIERY, AIRY, EARTHLY, and AQUATIC SPIRITS.

Volan. Forth from a thousand clouds of flame

and smoke,

From the deep bosom of the spacious earth

I to these scenes a messenger return :

Now to the fatal sound

Of these entwisted pipes,

By hissing snakes united,

And all attun'd to the fierce notes of death,

Now cease, now cease ye all

Ye potent spirits to reside in fire,

Or in the air, in water, or in earth!

Appear why pause ye? such is the command