Eve - 'hear what to my mind first thoughts present, let us divide our labours, thou where choice leads thee or where most needs'
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Card 7
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Adam - 'For solitude sometimes is best society, and short retirement urges sweet return but other doubt possesses me, lest harm befall thee severed from me' 'leave not the faithful side that gave thee being, still shades thee and protects the wife'
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Card 8
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Eve - 'and what is faith, love, virtue unassayed alone, without exterior help sustained?' 'frail is our happiness, if this be so, and Eden were no Eden thus exposed'
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Card 9
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Adam - 'Go; for thy stay, not free, absents thee more; go in thy naive innocence'
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Card 10
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Narrator - 'from her husband's hand her hand soft she withdrew' 'O much deceived, much failing, hapless Eve' 'Eve separate he spies'
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Card 11
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Satan - 'hope here to taste of pleasure, but all pleasure to destroy, save what is in destroying, other joy to me is lost' 'the way to ruin her now I tend'
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Card 12
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Eve - 'language of man pronounced by tongue of brute' 'Serpent, thy overpraising leaves in doubt the virtue of that fruit' 'Lead then, said Eve'
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Card 13
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Satan - 'Goddess humane, reach then, and freely taste'
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Card 14
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Narrator - 'forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate: Earth felt the wound' 'back to the thicket slunk the guilty serpent'
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Card 15
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Eve - 'This tree is not as we are told a tree of danger tasted, not to evil unknown opening the way, but to divine effect to open eyes, and make them gods who taste' 'I have also tasted and found...opener my eyes'
