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 * To whom thus Adam sore beset replied:

"O Heaven! in evil strait this day I stand, Before my Judge, either to undergo Myself the total crime, or to accuse My other self, the partner of my life, Whose failing, while her faith to me remains, I should conceal, and not expose to blame By my complaint. But strict necessity Subdues me, and calamitous constraint, Lest on my head both sin and punishment, However insupportable, be all Devolved; though should I hold my peace, yet thou Wouldst easily detect what I conceal. This Woman, whom thou madest to be my help, And gavest me as thy perfect gift, so good, So fit, so acceptable, so divine, That from her hand I could suspect no ill, And what she did, whatever in itself, Her doing seemed to justify the deed— She gave me of the tree, and I did eat."
 * To whom the sovran Presence thus replied:

"Was she thy God, that her thou didst obey, Before his voice? or was she made thy guide, Superior, or but equal, that to her Thou didst resign thy manhood, and the place Wherein God set thee above her, made of thee And for thee, whose perfection far excelled Hers in real dignity? Adorned