Happy a while in Paradise they lay; But quickly woman longed to go astray: Some foolish new adventure needs must prove, And the first devil she saw, she changd her love: To his temptations, lewdly she inclined Her soul, and, for an apple, damnd mankind.
ATTRIBUTION:
Thomas Otway (16521685), British dramatist. Castalio, in The Orphan, act 3, sc. 1.