《Paradise Lost Ⅸ》简介: ，THE ARGUMENT@小`说"网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 morning go forth to thir labours, which eve proposes to divide in several places, each labouring apart: adam consents 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 wondring to hear the serpent speak, asks how he attaind to human speech and such understanding not till now; the se