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Rh Which thou hast rightly named, but of thyself Expressing well the spirit within thee free, My image, not imparted to the brute, Whose fellowship therefore, unmeet for thee, Good reason was thou freely shouldest dislike; And be so minded still. I, ere thou spakest, Knew it not good for Man to be alone, And no such company as then thou sawest Intended thee, for trial only brought, To see how thou couldest judge of fit and meet What next I bring shall please thee, be assured, Thy likeness, thy fit help, thy other self, Thy wish exactly to thy heart's desire.'
 * "He ended, or I heard no more; for now

My earthly by his heavenly overpowered, Which it had long stood under, strained to the highth In that celestial colloquy sublime, As with an object that excels the sense, Dazzled and spent sunk down, and sought repair Of sleep, which instantly fell on me, called By Nature as in aid, and closed mine eyes. Mine eyes he closed, but open left the cell Of fancy, my internal sight, by which, Abstract as in a trance, methought I saw, Though sleeping, where I lay and saw the Shape Still glorious before whom awake I stood; Who stooping opened my left side, and took