[De contemptu mundi]

I had commanded you not to eat, cursed is the earth in your work. In labors you will eat from it all the days of your life. It will bring forth thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the herbs of the earth. In the sweat of your brow you will eat your bread, until you return to the earth, from which you were taken: because you are dust, and into dust you will return.

Indeed, Vincentius says in the first book of his Speculum historiale Historical Mirror in the chapter concerning the exile of our first parents and their generation, that it is piously believed that Adam and Eve, on the very day of their creation, that is, on the sixth day of the world, committed the transgression in paradise around midday, and shortly after, around the ninth hour, he cast them out. Thus, they did not remain long in that garden of pleasure. Yet, they emerged from paradise as virgins, and first united in this valley of miseries. But, that we may return a little to the text of the Bible, the Lord, wishing to cast our parents out of paradise, made them coats of skins, and clothed them, and said:

Behold, Adam has become as one of us, knowing good and evil. Now therefore, lest perhaps he reach out his hand, and take also of the tree of life and eat, and live forever, the Lord God sent him out of the paradise of pleasure, so that he might work the earth from which he was taken.

He cast out Adam, and