Lucifer. Yet thy God is alone; and is he happy?
Lonely, and good?
Adah.He is not so; he hath
The angels and the mortals to make happy,
And thus becomes so in diffusing joy.480
What else can joy be, but the spreading joy?[cc]
Lucifer. Ask of your sire, the exile fresh from Eden;
Or of his first-born son: ask your own heart;
It is not tranquil.
Adah.Alas! no! and you—