But to Adam in what sort Shall I appear? shall I to him make known As yet my change, and give him to partake Full happiness with me, or rather not, 820 But keep the odds of knowledge in my power266 Without copartner? so to add what wants267, 268 In female sex, the more to draw his love, And render me more equal, and perhaps, A thing not undesirable, sometime269 825 Superior; for inferior who is free? This may be well: but what if God have seen, And death ensue? then I shall be no more,270 And Adam wedded to another Eve, Shall live with her enjoying, I extinct; 830 A death to think. Confirmed
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