Somehow—I don’t know how—a serpent tempted us,
And eat we did, and so were doomed to die;
Whereas before we were meant to live for ever.
Meantime, turned out——
Eve. You do not think then, Adam,
We have been disobedient unto God?
Adam. My child, how should I know, and what do you mean?
Your question’s not so simple as it looks;
For if you mean that God said this or that—
As that ‘You shall not touch those apples there,’