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How Adam named Creatures all,
How Eue was made, that first did fall,
And how that Mariage did begynne,
Betweene them twayne ere they did sinne.

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Thus was the Heauēs, ye Earth, ye Sea,
and Creatures all therein
In sixe Dayes made: and in the seauēth
did God, our God beginne,

2

To rest from all his Labours done,
and Sanctified the same:
To bee a Day of rest to Man,
therein to prayse his Name.

3

God made each Plante in Fielde that growth,
Before in Earth it was,
And euery Hearbe before it grewe,
and euery other Grasse.

4

And thus before that any Rayne
vpon the Earth was founde,
Or any man, to haue in vse,
the Tillage of the Ground.

5

A mighty Mist, ascended vp
from of the Earth, and so
Bewatered the Face of all
the Earth, and Ground belowe.

6

Then Man, that of the Earth was made
a liuinge Soule became,
By Breath of Life, that God did breathe,
in Nosethrilles of the Man.

7

And from the first, God planted had,
a Garden fayre to see:
Wherein hee set, this Man hee made,
the Keeper for to bee.

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8

And from the Earth, God made to springe
all fruictfull Trees, so plaste:
As both might well the Eye delight,
and please the mouthe in taste.

9

Two trees, amyd this Garden grewe
by power of sacred skill,
The one of Lyfe, the other was
of knowledge, good and ill.

10

From Eden went a Ryuer foorth
to moyst this Garden than,
Which afterward, deuided was
and in foure heades became.

11

And Pishon, is the first of foure.
which round about doth goe
The golden Land of Hauilah,
Wher th' Onix Stone doth growe.

12

The second head, is Gihon cald,
Which compasseth throughoute.
The Land of Ethiopia,
with water round aboute.

13

The third, is named Hydekel
that passeth downe alonge
The East, side of Assyria,
Wyth myghty streame and stronge

14

And Euphrates, the fourth is calde
Whych Fruictfulnes doth showe:
And in the same do many Gemmes
and precious Stones foorthe growe.

15

Almyghty God, this Adam toke
and in this Garden set.
The same to dresse, the same to keepe
and of the Fruicte to eate.

16

Of euery Tree that therein was
God bade him eate his fil,

Except the Tree, that's in the mid'ste,
of Knowledge good, and ill.

17

God sayd, that Day, thou eat'st thereof,
thou for the same shalt Dye,
Therfore see that thou touche it not,
the taste thereof to trye.

18

It is not good (said God) that man
should be alone I see:
I wyll an helper make to him,
companion his to bee.

19

Out of the ground, did God then make,
ech beast vpon the Earth,
And euery Foule in th' ayre that flyes,
and all that draweth breathe.

20

And God did bringe all beastes and foules,
to view of Adams Eye,
Which was to see, what kynde of name,
he then would call them by.

21

And Adam, called euery Beast,
and euery Fowle by name,
As wee do vse at this same day,
to nominate the same.

22

In slomber then was Adam cast,
and God a Ribbe did take,
Out from his side, and of the same
a Woman did he make.
And fild the place with Fleshe agayne,
and when hee did awake:

23

This is (sayd he) Bone of my Bones,
and Fleshe of mine, I see:
Virago shal shee called bee,
as taken out from mee:

24

And for this cause, shal euery one,
his Parentes deare forsake:

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And cleaue vnto his Wife alone,
and both one Fleshe shall make.

25

Thus were they left in Paradice,
all Nak'de, and vnasham'de:
Because as yet no fact was done,
by them for to bee blam'de.