Love and Revenge: but I, whilst I dispute
Which Happiness to chuse, neglect them both.
The greatest Bliss that Mankind can possess,
Persuades me this way, to my fair Clarinda:
But tyrannick Honour
Presents the Credit of my House before me,
And bids me first redeem its fading Glory,
By sacrificing that false Woman’s Heart
That has [undone its Fame].
But stay, Oh Conscience, when I look within,