Better end heer unborn. Why is life givn
To be thus wrested from us? rather why
Obtruded on us thus? who if we knew
What we receive, would either not accept [ 505 ]
Life offerd, or sooo lay it down,
Glad to be so dismist in peace. thus
Th Image of God in maed once
So goodly a, though faultie since,
To susightly sufferings be debast [ 510 ]
Under inhuman pains? Why should not Man,
Retaining still Divine similitude
In part, from such deformities be free,
And for his Makers Image sake exempt?
Thir Makers Image, answerd Michael, then [ 515 ]
Forsook them, when themselves they villifid
To serve ungovernd appetite, and took
His Image whom they servd, a brutish vice,
Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve.
Therefore so abject is thir punishment, [ 520 ]
Disfiguring not Gods likeness, but thir own,
Or if his likeness, by themselves defact
While they pervert pure Natures healthful rules
To loathsom siess, worthily, sihey
Gods Image did not reveren themselves. [ 525……（内容加载失败！）
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