Which lines in this excerpt from John Milton's Paradise Lost reflects the theme of humankind's childish innocence before the fall from paradise?

So passd they naked on, nor shund the sight

Of God or Angel, for they thought no ill:

So hand in hand they passd, the lovliest pair

That ever since in loves imbraces met,

Adam the goodliest man of men since borne

His Sons, the fairest of her Daughters Eve

Under a tuft of shade that on a green

Stood whispering soft, by a fresh Fountain side

They sat them down, and after no more toil

Of their sweet Gardning labour then suffic'd

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Larry Mercer

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16 April, 15:58

Which lines in this excerpt from John Milton's Paradise Lost reflects the theme of humankind's childish innocence before the fall from paradise?

So passd they naked on, nor shund the sight

Of God or Angel, for they thought no ill:

So hand in hand they passd, the lovliest pair

That ever since in loves imbraces met,

Adam the goodliest man of men since borne

His Sons, the fairest of her Daughters Eve

Under a tuft of shade that on a green

Stood whispering soft, by a fresh Fountain side

They sat them down, and after no more toil

Of their sweet Gardning labour then suffic'd

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The correct answer could be "Of God or Angel, for they thought no ill: So hand in hand they passd, the lovliest pair.". Before they fell from paradise, people were considered to be incapable of evil and to be completely innocent, which is why Milton says that they thought no evil.