Which of the following should be the SECOND sentence after rearrangement?

Directions: Rearrange the following five sentences in the proper sequence to form a coherent paragraph, and then answer the question:

(A) Not only while I am still alive will I try to advise you in this, but I will make my counsel available to you after I am dead.
(B) I will then write three books for you, to which you may have recourse for guidance in all things which must be done in the management of a farm.
(C) You have bought a farm and wish to increase its fertility by good cultivation, and you ask me what I would do with it were it mine.
(D) And since, as men say, the gods aid those who propitiate them, I will begin my book by invoking divine approval, from a solemn council of those twelve divinities who are the tutelaries of husbandmen.
(E) For as it befell the Sibyl to have been of service to mankind not alone while she lived, but even to the uttermost generations of men after her demise, so may not I, while I still live, bequeath my counsel to my nearest and dearest.