When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then a gentleman?

-Ball,John   d.1381
  Sermon on the eve of the Peasants' Revolt. Quoted in George Holmes The Later Middle Ages,1272^1485 (1962), ch.7.

And the L God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof; And the rib, which the LGod had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man. And Adam said,This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man. Thereforeshall a manleavehisfatherand hismother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORD Genesis 2:21^4.

And when the woman saw that the tree wasgood for food, and that it waspleasanttothe eyes,and atreetobe desired to make one wise she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also to her husband with her; and he did eat. And the eyes of them bothwere opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons. And they heard the voice of the L God walking inthegarden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the L God amongst the trees of the garden.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORDGenesis 3:6^8. In the GenevaBible of1560, the word'aprons'was rendered'breeches', and the versionwas therefore known as the Breeches Bible.

And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the L.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDGenesis 4:1.

But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first-fruits of them that slept. For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Corinthians15:20^2.

  O merciful God, grant that the old Adam in this Child may be so buried, that the new man may be raised up in him. Amen.

-Book of Common Prayer
Publick Baptism of Infants, Blessing.

When Adam and Eve were dispossessed Of the garden hard by Heaven, They planted another one down in the west, 'Twas Devon, glorious Devon!

-Boulton, Sir Harold Edwin
  'Glorious Devon'.

But sweeter still than this, than these, than all, Is first and passionate loveöit stands alone, Like Adam's recollection of his fall; The tree of knowledge hath been pluck'döall's known And life yields nothing further to recall Worthy of this ambrosial sin, so shown, No doubt in fable, as the unforgiven Fire which Prometheus filch'd for us from heaven.

-Rochdale
^24  Don Juan, canto1, stanza127.

There's Carol like a rolling car, And Martin like a flying bird, And Adam like the Lord's First Word, And Raymond like the Harvest Moon, And Peter like a piper's tune, And Alan like the flowing on Of water. And there's John, like John.

-Farjeon, Eleanor
  Then There Were Three,'Boys' Names'.

When Eve upon the first of Men The apple pressed with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!

-Honorius of Autun
  'A Reflection'.

No, the serpent did not Seduce Eve to the apple. All that's simply Corruption of the facts. Adam ate the apple. Eve ate Adam. The serpent ate Eve. This is the dark intestine. The serpent, meanwhile, Sleeps his meal off in Paradiseö Smiling to hear God's querulous calling.

-Hughes,Ted (Edward James)
  'Theology'.

I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creationöthe miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence.

-Huxley, Aldous Leonard
  The Doors of Perception.

   When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden's green and gold, Our father Adamsat under theTree and scratched with a stick in the mould; And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, Till the Devilwhispered behind theleaves,'It'spretty, but is it Art?'

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'The Conundrum of the Workshops'.

Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden that it may not pass away! 474

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  'The Glory of the Garden'.

   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.

-Lanyer, Aemilia
Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'Eve's  Apology in Defense of Women'.

   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.

-Lanyer, Aemilia
Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'Eve's  Apology in Defense of Women'.

Depuis qu'Eve fit pe¤  cherAdam, toutes les femmes ont pris possession de tourmenter, tuer et damner les hommes. Ever since Eve made Adam sin, women have taken it upon themselves to torment, kill and damn men.

-Marguerite d'Angoule"  me
  Heptame¤  ron, pt.1.

Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegoryöthe world? Then we pygmies must be content to have our paper allegories but ill comprehended.

-Melville, Herman
  Letter to Nathaniel Hawthorne, Nov.

Nor turned I ween Adam from his fair spouse, nor Eve the rites Mysterious of connubial love refused: Whatever hypocrites austerely talk Of purity and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to some, leaves free to all.

-Milton,John
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.741^7.

The media have, indeed, provided the Devil with perhaps the greatest opportunity accorded him since Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden.

-Muggeridge, Malcolm
  Christ and the Media, introduction.