----if death Consort with thee, death is to me as life; Our state cannot be sever'd, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself. So Adam, and thus Eve to him reply'd. O glorious trial of exceeding love, Illustrious evidence, example high! So saying, she embrac'd him, and for joy Tenderly wept---- Up into Heav'n from Paradise in haste Th' angelic guards ascended, mute and sad For Man---- Book IX. v. 953, 958, 990.--Book X. v. 17. PICTURE XXI. EVE, after the Sentence and departure of the Judge, despairing, supported by ADAM. ----With swift ascent he up return'd. She ended here, or vehement despair Broke off the rest; so much of death her thoughts Had entertain'd, as dy'd her cheeks with pale. But Adam with such counsel nothing sway'd, To better hopes his more attentive mind Lab'ring had raised.---- Book X. v. 224, 1007. PICTURE XXII. DEATH and SIN bridging the 'waste' of CHAOS, and met by SATAN on his return from Earth. ----The aggregated soil Death with his mace petrific, cold and dry, As with a trident smote,---- ----and the mole immense wrought on Over the foaming deep high arch'd, a bridge Of length prodigious.---- ----when behold Satan in likeness of an Angel bright---- ----Sin, his fair Enchanting daughter, thus the silence broke: O Parent, these are thy magnific deeds. Book X. v. 293, 300, 326, 352. In the possession of the Countess of Guilford. PICTURE XXIII. SATAN discovered on his Throne, after his return from Earth. ----Down a while He sat, and round about him saw unseen: At last as from a cloud his fulgent head And shape star-bright appear'd---- ----all amaz'd At that so sudden blaze the Stygian throng Bent their aspect---- ----loud was th' acclaim: Forth rush'd in haste the great consulting peers, Rais'd from their dark Divan.---- Book X. v. 447, 452, 455. PICTURE XXIV. The Vision of the Lazar-house.