Great are thy Vertues, doubtless, best of Fruits. [ 745 ]
Though kept from Man, and worthy to be admird,
Whose taste, too long forborn, at first assay
Gave elocution to the mute, and taught
The To made for Speech to speak thy praise:
Thy praise hee also who forbids thy use, [ 750 ]
ceales not from us, naming thee the Tree
Of Knowledge, knowledge both of good and evil;
Forbids us then to taste, but his forbidding
ends thee more, while it inferrs the good
By thee unicated, and our want: [ 755 ]
Food unknown, sure is not had, or had
A unknown, is as not had at all.
In plain then, what forbids he but to know,
Forbids us good, forbids us to be wise?
Such prohibitions bi. But if Death [ 760 ]
Bind us with after-bands, rofits then
Our inward freedom? In the day we eate
Of this fair Fruit, our doom is, we shall die.
How dies the Serpent? hee hath eatn and lives,
And knows, and speaks, and reasons, and diss, [ 765 ]
Irrational till then. For us alone
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