But that first ’twas higher up than mine;

It is, that I being bestial, you divine,

We now alike are human beings both.

About our fall I won’t profess to know,

But know I do,

That I was never innocent as thou.

Moping again, my love; yes, I dare swear,

All the day long while I have been at work,

With some religious folly in your head.

Eve. No, Adam, I am cheerful quite to-day;