Satan having past the Earth, with meditated guile returns as a mist by Night into Paradise, enters into the Serpent sleeping. Adam and Eve in the M go forth to thir labours, which Eve proposes to divide in several places, each lab apart: Adam sents not, alledging the danger, lest that Enemy, of whom they were forewarnd, should attempt her found alone: Eve loath to be thought not circumspect or firm enough, urges her going apart, the rather desirous to make tryal of her strength; Adam at last yields: The Serpent finds her alone; his subtle approach, first gazing, then speaking, with much flattery extolling Eve above all other Creatures. Eve w to hear the Serpent speak, asks how he attaind to human speed suderstanding not till now; the Serpent answers, that by tasting of a certain Tree in the Gardeaind both to Speed Reason, till then void of both: Eve requires him t her to that Tree, and finds it to be the Tree of Knowledge forbidden: The Serpent now grown bolder, with many wiles and arguments induces her at length to eat; she pleasd with the taste deliberates a while whether to impart thereof to Adam or not, at last brings him of the Fruit, relates erswaded her to eat thereof: Adam at first amazd, but perceiving her lost, resolves through vehemence of love to perish with her; aenuating the trespass, eats also of the Fruit: The Effects thereof in them both; they seek to cover thir nakedness; then fall to variand accusation of one another.