But rise, let us no more tend, nor blame
Each other, blamd enough elsewhere, but strive
In offices of Love, how we may lightn [ 960 ]
Each others burden in our share of woe;
Sihis days Death denounct, if ought I see,
Will prove no sudden, but a slow-pact evill,
A long days dying to augment our paine,
And to our Seed (O hapless Seed!) derivd. [ 965 ]
To whom thus Eve, rec heart, replid.
Adam, by sad experiment I know
How little weight my words with thee finde,
Found so erroneous, thence by just event
Found so unfortunate; heless, [ 970 ]
Restord by thee, vile as I am, to place
Of netance, hopeful taine
Thy Love, the sole te of my heart
Living or dying, from thee I will not hide
What thoughts in my u brest are risn, [ 975 ]
Tending to some relief of our extremes,
Or end, though sharp and sad, yet tolerable,
As in our evils, and of easier choice.
If care of our dest perplex us most,
Which must be born to certain woe, devourd [ 980 ]
By Death at last, and miserable it is
To be to others cause of misery,
Our owen, and of our Loi
Into this cursed World a woful Race,
That after wretched Life must be at last [ 985 ]
Food for so foule a Monster, in thy power
It lies, yet ere ception to prevent
The Rablest, to bei u.
Childless thou art, Childless remaine:
So Death shall be deceavd his glut, and with us two [ 990 ]
Be forcd to satisfie his Ravnous Maw.
But if thou judge it hard and difficult,
versing, looking, loving, to abstain
From Loves due Rites, Nuptial imbraces sweet,
And with desire to languish without hope, [ 995 ]
Before the present object languishing
With like desire, which would be miserie
And tormehen none of what we dread,
Then both our selves and Seed at oo free
From what we fear for both, let us make short, [ 1000 ]
Let us seek Death, or he not found, supply
With our own hands his Offi our selves;
Why stand we longer shivering under feares,
That shew no end but Death, and have the power,
Of many ways to die the shortest choosing, [ 1005 ]
Destru with destru to destroy.