Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden: Adam listens to the warnings of the Archangel Raphael while Eve plucks grapes from a vine. Stipple engraving by F. Bartolozzi after T. Stothard, 1792.

John Milton, Paradise lost book 5, referring to Raphael: "Him through the spicie forrest onward com / Adam discernd, as in the dore he sat / Of his coole bowre, while now the mounted sun / Shot down direct his fervid raies, to warme / Earths inmost womb, more warmth then Adam need; / And Eve within, due at her hour prepar'd / For dinner savourie fruits, of taste to please / True appetite, and not disrelish thirst / Of nectarous draughts between, from milkie stream, / Berrie or grape: to whom thus Adam call'd …"