LIVRE XL

[>e fils de Dieu intercède pour nos premiers pères, qui confessent leur faute; il présente leurs prières à son père. Le Seigneur les exauce ; mais il déclare qu'ils ne sauroicut rester

1080 Xo evils which our own misdeeds have wrought. He will instruct us praying, and ol jraee Beseeching him ; so as we need not fear To pass commodiously this life, sustain'd By him with many comforts, till we end In dust, our final rest and native home. What better can we do, than, to the place Repairing where he judg'd us, prostrate fall Before him reverent; and there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg; with tears

1090 Watering the ground, and with our sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow' unfeign'd, and humiliation meek? Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene. When angry most he seem'd and most severe. What else but favour, grace, and mercy, shone?»

So spake our father penitent; nor Eve Felt less remorse: they, forthwith to the place Repairing where he judg'd them, prostrate fell

1 100 Before him reverent; and both conless'd

Humbly their faults, and pardon bcgg'd ; with tears Watering the ground, and with their sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow' unfeign'd, and humiliation meek.