Cain.But didst thou tempt my parents?
Lucifer.I?
Poor clay—what should I tempt them for, or how?
Cain. They say the Serpent was a spirit.
Saith that? It is not written so on high:
The proud One will not so far falsify,220
Though man's vast fears and little vanity
Would make him cast upon the spiritual nature
His own low failing. The snake was the snake—