THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT
21
A thousand years
and six hours of the hours,
without guile, without danger, it has been heard,
Adam was in Paradise.[1]
O God our help, whom champions prove,
who fashioned all with perfect justice,
not bright the matter of our theme (?)[2]
the King who spake an admonition with them.
Prince who gave a clear admonition.
(The figures in brackets after the title of the chapters are the numbers of the poems or cantos in the text.)