By turning supplicant a twofold witchery claims.
If he, whose pride at times pain causes to thy mind,
To supplication stoop, thou’lt small resistance find.
He, whose fierce tyranny our bleeding hearts most grieves,
By tendering excuses, us excuseless leaves.180
“Is goodly made to man”[289] ’s a text from God’s own word;
As truth made manifest, is by man ever heard.
God, too, therein decreed: “that he with her may dwell;”[290]
Whence Adam’s love for Eve survived lost Eden’s dell.
A hero man may be, a Hercules to grieve,