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 * inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge: Adam assents, and still desirous to detain Raphael, relates to him what he remembered since his own creation, his placing in Paradise, his talk with God concerning solitude and fit society, his first meeting and nuptials with Eve, his discourse with the Angel thereupon; who after admonitions repeated departs.

Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fixed to hear; Then, as new waked, thus gratefully replied:
 * "What thanks sufficient, or what recompense

Equal, have I to render thee? divine Historian, who thus largely hast allayed The thirst I had of knowledge, and vouchsafed This friendly condescention to relate Things else by me unsearchable, now heard With wonder, but delight, and, as is due,