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162 Conscience cites them to God's examination.

Chorus bewails, and tells the good Adam has lost.

Adam and Eve driven out of Paradise.

presented by an angel with

To whom he gives their names. Likewise Winter, Heat, Tempest, &c.

Such was his first design, which could have produced only an allegory, or mystery. The following sketch seems to have attained more maturity.

The angel Gabriel, either descending or entering; shewing, since this globe was created, his frequency as much on earth as in heaven; describes Paradise. Next, the Rh