Cain.He speaks like
A God.
Adah. So did the Serpent, and it lied.410
Lucifer. Thou errest, Adah!—was not the Tree that
Of Knowledge?
Adah.Aye—to our eternal sorrow.
Lucifer. And yet that grief is knowledge—so he lied not:
And if he did betray you, 'twas with Truth;
And Truth in its own essence cannot be
But good.