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Rh Given and received; but in disparity, The one intense, the other still remiss, Cannot well suit with either, but soon prove Tedious alike. Of fellowship I speak Such as I seek, fit to participate All rational delight, wherein the brute Cannot be human consort. They rejoice Each with their kind, lion with lioness; So fitly them in pair thou hast combined. Much less can bird with beast, or fish with fowl So well converse, nor with the ox the ape; Worse then can man with beast, and least of all.'
 * "Whereto the Almighty answered, not displeased:

'A nice and subtle happiness, I see, Thou to thyself proposest, in the choice Of thy associates, Adam, and wait taste No pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary. What thinkest thou then of me, and this my state? Seem I to thee sufficiently possessed Of happiness, or not? who am alone From all eternity; for none I know Second to me or like, equal much less, How have I then with whom to hold converse? Save with the creatures which I made, and those To me inferior, infinite descents Beneath what other creatures are to thee.'
 * "He ceased; I lowly answered:—'To attain