Adam - 'O fairest of creation, last and best of all God's work' 'some cursed fraud of enemy hath beguiled thee, yet unknown, and me with thee hath ruined, for with thee my certain resolution is to die'
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Card 17
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Eve - 'O glorious trial of exceeding love, illustrating evidence, example high!' 'this happy trial of love' 'on my experience Adam, freely taste'
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Card 18
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Narrator - 'Earth trembled from her entrails, as again in pangs, and nature gave a second groan' 'wept at completely of the mortal sin' 'that false fruit' 'naked left to guilty shame uncovered more'
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Card 19
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Adam - 'cover me ye pines, ye cedars...hide me, where I may never see them more' 'girded on our loins, may cover round those middle parts, that this new comer, shame, there sit not' 'vain covering if to hide'
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Card 20
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Adam - 'beyond this had been force and force upon free will hath here no place' 'my crime'