_Then, AS WAS WELL OBSERV'D_ our torments may
Become our elements.
A curious instance how the insertion of a single prosaic expression
turns a fine verse into something worse than the vilest prose.
To conclude with one more instance of critical emendation: Milton says,
with an agreeable turn of expression--
So parted they; the angel up to heaven,
From the thick shade; and Adam to his bower.
Bentley "conjectures" these two verses to be inaccurate, and in lieu of
the last writes--