...knees; bereave me not Whereon I live, thy gentle looks, thy aid, Thy counsel in this uttermost distress, My only strength and stay. Forlorn of thee, Whither...Between us two let there be peace; both joining, As joined in injuries, one enmity Against a Foe by doom express assigned us. That cruel Serpent. On me...

...notebook. I thought this apt ... it's Milton. Eve to Adam after the Fall: (HE hands it to /ier.) GEN. "While yet we live Scarce one short hour perhaps, between us two Let there be peace." 87 (THEY look at each other a long moment. HE gently kisses her. A long kiss. THEY lie back on the...

...beereave me not, Whereon I live, thy gentle looks, thy aid, Thy counsel in this uttermost distress. llaby 23 'How far is St. Helena from an Emperor of France?' I cannot see — I cannot (Bk. X, 1. 914-922) 102 Thy hatred for this misery befallen; On me already lost, me than thyself More...

...me not, Whereon I live, thy gemle looks, thy aid. Thy counsel in this uttermost distress, My onely strength and stay: forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist? (918-22) ' That reason, wisdom and iutellect are Adam's prerogative follows from, among others. Eve's...

...bereave me not, Whereon I live, thy gentle looks, thy aid, Thy counsel in this uttermost distress, 920 My only strength and stay: forlorn of thee, Whither...Between us two let there be peace, both joining, As joined in injuries, one enmity Against a foe by doom express assigned us, ' That cruel serpent: on...

...rejects her overture, Eve immediately returns with humility and "love sincere" (PL 10.915) to plead, While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps,...there be peace, both joining, As join'd in injuries. (PL 10.923-25) At last, Adam relents. What Milton dramatizes in the first part of this scene is the...

...bereave me not, Whereon I live, thy gentle looks, thy aid, Thy counsel in this uttermost distress, My only strength and stay: forlorn of thee, Whither...by doom express assign'd us, That cruel Serpent: On mee exercise not Thy hatred for this misery befall'n, On me already lost, mee than thyself More miserable;...

...'exercise [on her] his hatred for this misery' (X.927) . The two discover new grounds for friendship: Between us two let there be peace, both joining, As...enmity Against a foe by doom express assign'd us, The cruel serpent. (X.924-7) Exchanging enmity against one another for conjoining in enmity against...