XI.

So fast in us doth this corruption grow,

That now wee dare aske why wee should be so.

Would God (disputes the curious Rebell) make

A law, and would not have it kept? Or can

105His creatures will, crosse his? Of every man

For one, will God (and be just) vengeance take?

Who sinn'd? t'was not forbidden to the snake

Nor her, who was not then made; nor is't writ

That Adam cropt, or knew the apple; yet

110The worme and she, and he, and wee endure for it.