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Countess Consult a holy Man! enquire of him Good Father wherefore! what should I enquire? Must I be taught of him that guilt is woe That Innocence alone is happiness? That martyrdom itself shall leave the villain The Villain that it found him; must I learn That minutes stampt with crimes are ^ [[addition]] past [[/addition]] recall That joys are momentary, & remorse Eternal, Shall he teach me charms & spells To make my sense, believe against my sense? Shall I think practises & penances Will if he say so, give the health of virtue To gnawing self reproach? - I know they cannot. Nor could one risen from the dead proclaim This truth in deeper sounds to my conviction We want no preacher to distinguish vice From Virtue: At our birth the God reveal'd
