Quotes from Emilia Lanier

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

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.

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.