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382 Forsook them, when themselves they vilified To serve ungoverned Appetite, and took His image whom they served, a brutish vice, Inductive mainly to the sin of Eve. Therefore so abject is their punishment Disfiguring not God's likeness, but their own; Or if his likeness, by themselves defaced, While they pervert pure Nature's healthful rules To loathsome sickness; worthily, since they God's image did not reverence in themselves."
 * "I yield it just," said Adam, "and submit.

But is there yet no other way beside These painful passages, how we may come To death, and mix with our connatural dust?"
 * "There is," said Michael, "if thou well observe

The rule of Not too much, by temperance taught, In what thou eatest and drinkest, seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, Till many years over thy head return. So mayest thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, not harshly plucked, for death mature. This is old-age. But then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change