Eve. But you, my husband, you meantime, I feel,

Join not your perfect spirit in my joy.

No; your spirit mixes not, I feel, with mine.

Adam. Alas! sweet love, for many a weary day,

You and not I have borne this heavy weight:

How can I, should I, might I feel your bliss,

Now heaviness is changed to glory? Long,

In long and unparticipated pangs,

Your heart hath known its own great bitterness:

How should, in this its jubilant release,