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298 Which when she saw, thus to her guide she spake:
 * "Serpent, we might have spared our coming hither,

Fruitless to me, though fruit be here to excess, The credit of whose virtue rest with thee; Wondrous indeed, if cause of such effects. But of this tree we may not taste nor touch; God so commanded, and left that command Sole daughter of his voice: the rest, we live Law to ourselves; our reason is our law."
 * To whom the Tempter guilefully replied:

"Indeed! Hath God then said that of the fruit Of all these garden-trees ye shall not eat, Yet lords declared of all in earth or air?"
 * To whom thus Eve, yet sinless:—"Of the fruit

Of each tree in the garden we may eat; But of the fruit of this fair tree, amidst The garden, God hath said, 'Ye shall not eat Thereof, nor shall ye touch it, lest ye die.
 * She scarce had said, though brief, when now more bold

The Tempter, but with shew of zeal and love To Man, and indignation at his wrong, New part puts on; and, as to passion moved, Fluctuates disturbed, yet comely, and in act Raised, as of some great matter to begin. As when of old some orator renowned,