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Rh Bred of unkindly fumes, with conscious dreams Incumbered, now had left them, up they rose As from unrest, and, each the other viewing, Soon found their eyes how opened, and their minds How darkened. Innocence, that as a veil Had shadowed them from knowing ill, was gone; Just confidence, and native righteousness, And honor, from about them, naked left To guilty Shame; he covered, but his robe Uncovered more. So rose the Danite strong, Herculean Samson from the harlot-lap Of Philistean Dalilah, and waked Shorn of his strength; they destitute and bare Of all their virtue. Silent, and in face Confounded, long they sat, as strucken mute; Till Adam, though not less than Eve abashed, At length gave utterance to these words constrained:
 * "O Eve, in evil hour thou didst give ear

To that false worm, of whomsoever taught To counterfeit Man's voice, true in our fall, False in our promised rising; since our eyes Opened we find indeed, and find we know Both good and evil, good lost, and evil got; Bad fruit of knowledge, if this be to know, Which leaves us naked thus, of honor void,