![]() The Garden describ'd Satans first sight of Adam and Eve his wonder at thir excellent form and happy state, but with resolution to work thir fall overhears thir discourse, thence gathers that the Tree of knowledge was forbidden them to eat of, under penalty of death and thereon intends to found his Temptation, by seducing them to transgress: then leaves them a while, to know further of thir state by some other means. THE ARGUMENT Satan now in prospect of Eden, and nigh the place where he must now attempt the bold enterprize which he undertook alone against God and Man, falls into many doubts with himself, and many passions, fear, envy, and despare but at length confirms himself in evil, journeys on to Paradise, whose outward prospect and scituation is discribed, overleaps the bounds, sits in the shape of a Cormorant on the Tree of life, as highest in the Garden to look about him. ![]()
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