Satan having compast 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 labors, which Eve proposes to divide in several places, each laboring apart: Adam Consents not, alledging the danger, lest that Enemy, of whom they were foreseen, should attempt her found alone: ​​Eve loath to be thought not circumspect or firm enough, urges her going apart, the rather desirable 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 wondering to hear the Serpent speak, asks how he attained to human speech and such understanding not till now; the Serpent answers, that by tasting of a certain Tree in the Garden he attained both to Speech and Reason, till then void of both: Eve requires him to bring 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 pleases with the taste deliberates a while whether to impart therefore to Adam or not, at last brings him of the Fruit, relates what perswaded her to eat thereof: Adam at first amazd, but perceiving her lost, resolves through vehemence of love to perish with her; and extenuating the trespass, eats also of the Fruit: The Effects thereof in them both; variance and accusation of one another.