Her hand soft touching, whisper’d thus. Awake
My fairest, my espous’d, my latest found,
Heav’n’s last best gift, my ever new delight,
Awake’....
The general style, indeed, in which Eve is addressed by Adam, or described by the poet, is in the highest strain of compliment:
‘When Adam thus to Eve. Fair consort, the hour
Of night approaches.’...
‘To whom thus Eve, with perfect beauty adorn’d.’
‘To whom our general ancestor replied,
Daughter of God and Man, accomplish’d Eve.’