When to the promis'd land their fathers pafs'd; To his due time and providence I leave them. 440 So fpake Ifrael's true king, and to the Fiend Made answer meet, that made void all his wiles. So fares it when with truth falfhood contends. The end of the Third Book. REGA I N'D. BOOK IV. ERPLEX'D and troubled at his bad success PERPI The Tempter flood, nor had what to reply, That fleek'd his tongue, and won so much on Eve, 5 10 In cunning, over-reach'd where least he thought, 15 Though |