Kiss’d, as the gracious signs of sweet remorse
And pious awe, that fear’d to have offended.’
The formal eulogy on Eve which Adam addresses to the Angel, in giving an account of his own creation and hers, is full of elaborate grace:
‘Under his forming hands a creature grew,
. . . . . so lovely fair,
That what seem’d fair in all the world, seem’d now
Mean, or in her summ’d up, in her contained
And in her looks, which from that time infus’d
Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before,
And into all things from her air inspir’d