And thy request think now fulfill'd, that ask'd Inform'd by thee, might know: if else thou seek'st THE ARGUMENT. Adam 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. HE angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd 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 allay'd Things else by me unsearchable; now heard Their distance argues, and their swift return Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot, Greater, so manifold, to this one use, For aught appears, and on their orbs impose Repeated; while the sedentary earth, That better might with far less compass move, |