What do they know?—that they are miserable.
What need of snakes and fruits to teach us that?
Adah. I am not wretched, Cain, and if thou
Wert happy——
Cain.Be thou happy, then, alone—
I will have nought to do with happiness,
Which humbles me and mine.
Adah.Alone I could not,
Nor would be happy; but with those around us
I think I could be so, despite of Death,