Adam and Eve, their first argument after the Fall

Adam to Eve, in discovering their death is delayed, after eating the forbidden fruit and waiting final expulsion from the Garden of Eden.

Adam to Eve

' "...But rise. Let us no more contend, nor blame

Each other, blam'd enough elsewhere, but strive

In offices of love how we may light'n

Each other's burden in our share of woe,

Since this day's death denounc'd, if aught I see,

Will prove no sudden, but a slow-pac'd evil,

A long day's dying, to augment our pain,

And to our seed (O hapless seed!) deriv'd."

To whom thus Eve, recovering heart, replied: 

"Adam, by sad experiment I know

How little weight my words with thee can find,

Found so erroneous, thence by just event

Found so unfortunate. Nevertheless,

Restor'd by thee, vile as I am, to place

Of new acceptance, hopeful to regain

Thy love, the sole contentment of my heart,

Living or dying, from thee I will not hide

What thoughts in my unquiet breast are ris'n,

Tending to some relief of our extremes,

Or end, though sharp and sad, yet tolerable 

As in our evils, and of easier choice.

If care of our descent perplex us most,

Which must be born to certain woe, devour'd

By Death at last (and miserable it is

To be to others cause of misery," '

(John Milton Paradise Lost,Book 10, line 960)