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Our mother Eve, who tasted of the tree, Giving to Adam what she held most dear, Was simply good, and had no power to see.

Our mother Eve, who tasted of the tree, Giving to Adam what she held most dear, Was simply good, and had no power to see.

Emilia Lanier
Mother, Giving, Tree
1611 Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'Eve's Apology in Defense of Women'.

But surely Adam cannot be excused; Her fault though great, yet he was most to blame; What weakness offered, strength might have refused, Being lord of all, the greater was the shame.

Emilia Lanier
Weakness, Might, Faults
1611 Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'Eve's Apology in Defense of Women'.

Never shall my sad eyes again behold Those pleasures which my thoughts did then unfold.

Emilia Lanier
Eye, Pleasure, My Thoughts
1611 Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'The Description of Cooke-ham'.

Then let us have our libertyagain, And challenge to yourselves no sovereignty. You came not in the world without our pain, Make that a bar against your cruelty; Your fault being greater, why should you disdain Our being your equals, free from tyranny?

Emilia Lanier
Pain, Challenges, Faults
1611 Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'Eve's Apology in Defense of Women'.

Not Eve, whose fault was only too much love, Which made her give this present to her dear, That what she tasted he likewise might prove, Whereby his knowledge might become more clear; He never sought her weakness to reprove With those sharp words which he of God did hear; Yet men will boast of knowledge, which he took From Eve's fair hand, as from a learned book.

Emilia Lanier
Book, Men, Hands
1611 Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'Eve's Apology in Defense of Women'.

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