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316 Heard not her lore, both in subjection now To sensual Appetite, who from beneath Usurping over sovran Reason claimed Superior sway. From thus distempered breast, Adam, estranged in look and altered style, Speech intermitted thus to Eve renewed:
 * "Would thou hadst hearkened to my words, and stayed

With me, as I besought thee, when that strange Desire of wandering, this unhappy morn, I know not whence possessed thee; we had then Remained still happy; not, as now, despoiled Of all our good, shamed, naked, miserable! Let none henceforth seek needless cause to approve The faith they owe; when earnestly they seek Such proof, conclude they then begin to fail."
 * To whom, soon moved with touch of blame, thus Eve:

"What words have passed thy lips, Adam severe? Imputest thou that to my default, or will Of wandering, as thou callest it, which who knows But might as ill have happened thou being by, Or to thyself perhaps? Hadst thou been there, Or here the attempt, thou couldst not have discerned Fraud in the Serpent, speaking as he spake; No ground of enmity between us known,