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you should not eate of euerie tree of Paradise? ²To whom the woman answered: Of the fruite of the trees that are in paradise, we doe eate: ³but of the fruite of the tree which is in the middes of paradise, God hath commanded vs that we should not eate: and that we should not touch it, lest perhapes we die. ⁴And the serpent said to the woman: No you shal not dye the death. ⁵For God doth know that in what day soeuer you shal eate therof, your eyes shal be opened: and you shal be as gods, knowing good & euil.

⁶The woman therfore sawe that the tree was good to eate, and fayre to the eyes, and delectable to behold: and she tooke of the fruite therof, and did eate, and gaue to her husband, who did eate. ⁷And the eyes of them both were opened: and when they^[1] perceiued themselues to be naked, they sowed togeather leaues of a figge tree, and made themselues aprons.

⁸And hearing the voice of our Lord God walking in paradise at the after none ayre: Adam hid himselfe and so did his wife from the face of our Lord God, amidst the trees of paradise. ⁹And our Lord God called Adam, and said to him: Where art thou? ¹⁰Who said: I heard thy voice in paradise: and I feared, because I was naked, and I hid me. ¹¹To whom he said: And who hath told thee that thou wast naked, but that thou hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eate? ¹²And Adam said: The woman, which thou gauest me to be my felow companion, gaue me of the tree, and I did eate.

¹³And our Lord God said to the woman: Why hast thou done this? who answered: The serpent deceiued me, & I did eate. ¹⁴And our Lord God said to the serpent: Because thou hast done this thing,^[2] accursed art thou among al catle, & beasts of the earth: vpon thy brest shalt thou goe, &^[3] earth shalt thou eate al the dayes of thy life. ¹⁵I wil put enmyties betwen thee & the woman, and thy seed and the seed of her: she shal bruise thy head in peeces, & thou shalt lye in waite^[4] of her heele. ¹⁶To the woman also he said: I wil multiplie thy trauailes, and thy child bearinges: in trauaile shalt thou bring forth children, and thou shalt be vnder thy husbands power, and he shal haue dominion ouer thee. ¹⁷And to Adam he said: Because thou hast heard the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded

1. After sinne they were ashamed, not before S. Chris.
2. Al this curse perteineth to the diuel that spake in the serpent. S. Aug, li 2. de Gen. ad lit. cap. 36. S. Beda in hunc locum.
3. Earthlie or worldlie and carnal men S. Greg. in Psal. 101.
4. Though good men resist tentations at the first assaults, and so bruise the serpents head, yet he endeuoreth stil to deceiue especially in the end of mans life, signified by the heele. S. Gre. in cap. 1. Iob.