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158 On to their morning's rural work they haste, Among sweet dews and flowers; where any row Of fruit-trees over-woody reached too far Their pampered boughs, and needed hands to check Fruitless embraces: or they led the vine To wed her elm; she spoused about him twines Her marriageable arms, and with her brings Her dower, the adopted clusters, to adorn His barren leaves. Them thus employed beheld With pity Heaven's high King, and to him called Raphael, the sociable Spirit, that deigned To travel with Tobias, and secured His marriage with the seven-times wedded maid.
 * "Raphael," said he, "thou hearest what stir on Earth

Satan, from Hell scaped through the darksome gulf, Hath raised in Paradise, and how disturbed This night the human pair, how he designs In them at once to ruin all mankind. Go therefore, half this day, as friend with friend, Converse with Adam, in what bower or shade Thou findest him from the heat of noon retired, To respite his day-labor with repast, Or with repose; and such discourse bring-on, As may advice him of his happy state, Happiness in his power left free to will,