This life to On the good Atuvus delt;
In it's all Joy, Truth, Knowledge, Love and Force;
Such force no weight created can repel't.
All strength and livelihood is from this sourse,
All Lives to this first spring have circular recourse.
Here the allegory is, that the way of escape from the brutish condition of human nature, (Beiron) is by Obedience, which discovers Humility, the door of passage; now Obedience (Simon) consists in self denial, Autaparnes, and Patience, Hypomone. Old Mnemon remarks upon this story,
A lecture strange he seem'd to read to me,
And though I did not rightly understand
His meaning, yet I deemed it to be
Some goodly thing.
Henry More's readers seem to have agreed with old Mnemon, in thinking it strange and in not understanding it. Yet this is the best part of the whole allegory, and of the whole poem. He soon begins to imitate John Bunyan in his nomenclature, . . but oh! what an imitation of
