Chapter 1 THE ARGUMENT
Adam inquires concerning celestial Motions, is doubtfully answer, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge: Adam assents, and still desirable to detain Raphael, relates to him what he remembered since his own Creation, his placing in Paradise, his talk with God concerned solitude and fit society, his first meeting and Nuptials with Eve, his discourse with the Angel thereupon; who after admonitions repeated departs.