Speak, and assure us, wretched as we are,
That we are not more miserable still.
Adah. Speak, Cain! and say it was not thou!
I see it now—he hangs his guilty head,
And covers his ferocious eye with hands
Incarnadine!
Adah.Mother, thou dost him wrong—
Cain! clear thee from this horrible accusal,400
Which grief wrings from our parent.