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Conscience cites them to God's examination.

Chorus bewails, and tells the good Adam has lost.

 

ACT V.

Adam and Eve driven out of Paradise.

—————— presented by an angel with

Labour, Grief, Hatred, Envy, War,	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	Mutes.
Famine, Pestilence, Sickness, Discontent,
Ignorance, Fear, Death;

To whom he gives their names. Likewise Winter, Heat, Tempest, &c.

Faith,	$\scriptstyle {\left.{\begin{matrix}\ \\\\\ \ \end{matrix}}\right\}\,}$	comfort him and instruct him.
Hope,
Charity,
Chorus briefly concludes.

Such was his first design, which could have produced only an allegory, or mystery. The following sketch seems to have attained more maturity.

 

Adam unparadised:

The angel Gabriel, either descending or entering; shewing, since this globe was created, his frequency as much on earth as in heaven; describes Paradise. Next, the