"Much did we relinquish of good when we vexed our High Prince; Paradise was ours under perfect command[57] with every reverence.
"Youth[58] and joy, by us it has been heard, health, playfulness, delight, bordered[59] lands, most perfect of form, wondrous plants, harmonies.
"Noble satisfaction, singular wholesome peace, a festival of holiness for souls, ...[60] many the habitations, frequent intercourse with angels.
"Lasting life, continually at God's right hand, for ever in the brughs of Paradise, in which, under fair aspect, God's creatures were doing us reverence.
"All the living things under heaven which my faithful dear God created, under (our) control over every high place, we it was who used to order them.
"Fire would not burn us, water would not drown us, nor sharp edge ...[61] nor (was there) pestilence nor consuming disease.
"There was not among the elements of dear God, one that would come, in heaven or earth, against our will, to destroy us, save only the wicked Lucifer.
"Even Lucifer could not harm us, while we were under law (in a) perfect course according to mandate, according to command.
"Because we wronged dear God who gave us everything, on every height, all creatures together, are (now) in opposition to us.
"It is not God who has been evil towards us, O Eve, ruddy, gentle fair one; it is we who have wronged the Prince, though He provided us with lasting good."
Eve spake, for she was in distress,[62] in sorrow, after the fall; "O Adam, marvellous over every wild, why do you not kill me for my sins?
"It is I who transgressed the law, it is I who committed the transgression, it would then be right that thou should'st slay me, O my Lord, O Adam!
"Provided that I fall (just the measure) for my sins, for my transgression, clearly the greater mercy will thy God shew towards thee."
"Greatly have we offended the King," said he, said Adam, without contempt, "O Wife, I will not commit murder on thee, though I be famished, though I be naked.
"I will not lift my hand upon my own blood, my own flesh; how great soever thy crime, it is from my body thou art.
"It is not fitting for us in any way to outrage Him again; so that the true Prince, O wife, may not cut us off and utterly destroy us.