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 you should not eate of euerie tree of Paradise? To whom the woman answered: Of the fruite of the trees that are in paradise, we doe eate: but of the fruite of the tree which is in the middes of paradise, God hath commanded vs that we should not eate: and that we should not touch it, lest perhapes we die. And the serpent said to the woman: No you shal not dye the death. For God doth know that in what day soeuer you shal eate therof, your eyes shal be opened: and you shal be as gods, knowing good &amp; euil. The woman therfore sawe that the tree was good to eate, and fayre to the eyes, and delectable to behold: and she tooke of the fruite therof, and did eate, and gaue to her husband, who did eate. And the eyes of them both were opened: and when they perceiued themselues to be naked, they sowed togeather leaues of a figge tree, and made themselues aprons. And hearing the voice of our Lord God walking in paradise at the after none ayre: Adam hid himselfe and so did his wife from the face of our Lord God, amidst the trees of paradise. And our Lord God called Adam, and said to him: Where art thou? Who said: I heard thy voice in paradise: and I feared, because I was naked, and I hid me. To whom he said: And who hath told thee that thou wast naked, but that thou hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eate? And Adam said: The woman, which thou gauest me to be my felow companion, gaue me of the tree, and I did eate. And our Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? who answered: The serpent deceiued me, &amp; I did eate. And our Lord God said to the serpent: Because thou hast done this thing, accursed art thou among al catle, &amp; beasts of the earth: vpon thy brest shalt thou goe, &amp; earth shalt thou eate al the dayes of thy life. I wil put enmyties betwen thee &amp; the woman, and thy seed and the seed of her: she shal bruise thy head in peeces, &amp; thou shalt lye in waite of her heele. To the woman also he said: I wil multiplie thy trauailes, and thy child bearinges: in trauaile shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be vnder thy husbands power, and he shal haue dominion ouer thee. And to Adam he said: Because thou hast heard the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded