_Innocence._ And leaves not overmuch, Since no man yet has been with parents born. But, in good faith, good master Adam, All fine as you go on, pranked out by Grace, I feel no little trouble at your course, Like that of other princes made of clay. But I admit it was a famous trick, In your most sovereign Lord, out of the mud A microcosm nice to make, and do it In one day. _Grace._ He that the greater world could build By his commanding power alone, to him It was not much these lesser works on earth To do. And see you not the two great lamps Which overhead he hung so fair? _Innocence._ And how The earth he sowed with flowers, the heavens with stars?[370] [370] _Adan._ Aqui, Reyna, en esta alfõbra De yerua y flores te assienta. _Inoc._ Esso á la fe me contenta. Reyna y Señora la nombra. _Gra._ Pues no ves que es su muger, Carne de su carne y hueso De sus huesos? _Inoc._ Y aũ por esso, Porque es como ser su ser. Lindos requiebros se dizen. _Gra._ Dos en una carne son. _Inoc._ Dure mil años la union, Y en esta paz se eternizen. _Gra._ Por la Reyna dexará El Rey a su padre y madre. _Inoc._ Ninguno nació con padre, Poco en dexarlos hará; Y á la fe, Señor Adan, Que aunque de Gracia vizarro, Que los Principes del barro Notable pena me dan. Brauo artificio tenia Vuestro soberano dueño, Quãdo un mũdo aunq̄ pequeño Hizo de barro en un dia. _Gra._ Quiẽ los dos mũdos mayores Pudo hacer con su palabra, Que mucho que rompa y abra En la tierra estas labores. No ves las lamparas bellas, Que de los cielos colgó? _Inoc._ Como de flores sembró La tierra, el cielo de estrellas. Comedias de Lope de Vega. Tom. XXIV., Zaragoza, 1641, f. 111. Immediately after the fall, and therefore, according to the common Scriptural computation, about four thousand years before she was born, the Madonna appears, and personally drives Satan down to perdition, while, at the same time, an Angel expels Adam and Eve from Paradise. The Divine Prince and the Celestial Emperor, as the Saviour and the Supreme Divinity are respectively called, then come upon the vacant stage, and, in a conference full of theological subtilties, arrange the system of man’s redemption, which, at the Divine command, Gabriel,