No more;[102] and yet not less than those he tempted,
In nature being earth also—more in wisdom,
Since he could overcome them, and foreknew
The knowledge fatal to their narrow joys.
Think'st thou I'd take the shape of things that die?
Cain. But the thing had a demon?
Lucifer.He but woke one
In those he spake to with his forky tongue.230
I tell thee that the Serpent was no more
Than a mere serpent: ask the Cherubim