in his mouth, when it was said:  Thou shalt eat earth all the days of thy life.  Also he took away his voice and put venom in his mouth.  And because he deceived, it was said:  I shall put enmity between thee and woman, and thy seed and her seed.  She shall break thy head, etc.  In two things the woman sinned, in pride and eating the fruit.  Because she sinned in pride, he meeked her, saying:  Thou shalt be under the power of man, and he shall have lordship over thee, and he shall put thee to affliction.  Now is she subject to a man by condition and dread, which before was but subject by love; and because she sinned in the fruit, she is punished in her fruit, when it was said to her:  Thou shalt bring forth children in sorrow; in the pain of sorrow standeth the curse, but in bringing forth of children is a blessing.  And so, in punishing, God forgat not to have mercy.  And because Adam sinned but only in eating of the fruit, therefore he was punished in seeking his meat, as it is said to him:  Accursed be the earth in thy work, that is to say for thy work of thy sin, for which is made that the earth that brought forth good and wholesome fruits plenteously, from henceforth shall bring forth but seldom, and also none without man’s labor, and also sometime weeds, briars, and thorns shall grow.  And he added:  Thereto shalt thou eat herbs of the earth, as who saith thou shalt be like a beast or jument.  He cursed the earth because the trespass was of the fruit of the earth and not of the water.  He added thereto to him of labor:  In the sweat of thy cheer [face] thou shalt eat thy bread unto the time thou return again into the earth; that is to say till thou die, for thou art earth, and into earth thou shalt go again.

Then Adam, wailing and sorrowing the misery that was to come of his posterity, named his wife Eve, which is to say, mother of all living folk.  Then God made to Adam and Eve two leathern coats of the skins of dead beasts, to the end that they bare with them the sign of mortality, and said:  Lo, Adam is made as one of us, knowing good and evil, now lest he put his hand and take of the tree of life and live ever, as who saith:  beware and cast him out, lest he take and eat of the tree of life.  And so he was cast out of Paradise, and set in the field of Damascus where as he was made and taken from, for to work and labor there.  And our Lord set Cherubim to keep Paradise of delight with a burning sword and pliant, to the end that none should enter there ne come to the tree of life.

After then that Adam was cast out of Paradise and set in the world, he engendered Cain, the fifteenth year after he was made, and his sister Calmana; but after another fifteen years was Abel born, and his sister Delbora.