to wefully replid. [ 370 ]

    Ascend, I folloh

    t me, and to t,

    ning, to turne

    My obvious breast, arming to overcom

    By suffering, and earne rest from labour won, [ 375 ]

    If so I may attain. So both ascend

    In t was a hill

    Of Paradise t, from wop

    t Ken

    Stretc to amplest reac lay. [ 380 ]

    Not  hill nor wider looking round,

    cause tempter set

    Our second Adam in the ilderness,

    to shir Glory.

    tood [ 385 ]

    City of old or modern Fame, t

    Of mig Empire, from tind alls

    Of Cambalu, seat of Cathaian Can

    And Samarcemirs throne,

    to Paquin of Sin?an Kings, and thence [ 390 ]

    to Agra and La Mogul

    Doo the golden Chersonese, or where

    tan sate, or since

    In he Russian Ksar

    In Mosco, or tan in Bizance, [ 395 ]

    turcan-born; nor could  ken

    to most Port

    Ercoco and tim Kings

    Mombaza, and Quiloa, and Melind,

    And Sofala t Opo the Realme [ 400 ]

    Of Congo, and Angola fardest South;

    Or to Atlas Mount

    the Kingdoms of Almansor, Fez and Sus,

    Marocco and Algiers, and tremisen;

    On Europe to sway [ 405 ]

    t perhaps he also saw

    Ric of Motezume,

    And Cusco in Peru, t

    Of Atabalipa, and yet unspoild

    Guiana, ie Geryons Sons [ 410 ]

    Call El Dorado: but to nobler sights

    Miche Filme removd

    false Fruit t promisd clearer sight

    h Euphrasie and Rue

    to see; [ 415 ]

    And from tilld.

    So deep ts piercd,

    Eevn to t seat of mental sight,

    t Adam no to close his eyes,

    Sunk doranst: [ 420 ]

    But le Angel by the hand

    Soon raisd, and tention thus recalld.