PL X quotations

ought to still have remembered/...

the high injunction not to taste the fruit

and manifold in sin,...

deserved to fall

where none are to behold judgement,...

but the judged

love was not in their looks,...

either to God/ or to each other

she gave me of the tree,...

and I did eat

Was she...

thy God

the serpent beguiled me...

and thy did eat

Mary second ...

Eve

because thou hast hearkened...

to the voice of thy wife

I charged thee...

... cursed is the ground for thy sake

know thy birth/...

for dust thou art and shalt to dust return

Satan our great...

author

now fenceless world... from hence passage broad...

smooth, easy, inoffensive down to hell

Satan in likeness...

of an angel bright

Sin his fair/...

enchanting daughter

Sin abt Satan

author prime architect

dungeon of our...

tyrant

[God} hath given up/both his beloved man...

and his world/ to Sin and Death

from innumerable tongues/...

a dismal universal hiss

to me, who with eternal famine pine/...

alike is hell, or Paradise, or heaven

season him thy last...

and sweetest prey

O fleeting joys/of Paradise,...

dear bought with everlasting woes

Did I request thee, maker...

from my clay/to mould me man

why am I mocked with death and lengthened out...

to deathless pain

out of my sight thou serpent, that name best/...

befits thee with him leagued

colour serpentine...

may show/ your inward fraud

in offices of love, how we may lighten...

each other's burden in our share of woe

What are the solutions Eve presents?

childless thou art, childless remain

let us seek death

God and his just...

yoke/ laid upon our necks

their sighs the air/... frequenting, sent from hearts contrite...

in sign/ of sorrow unfeigned and humiliation meek