That threw in this Bethesda your disease;

If unrestored by this, despair your cure.

For here, resistless demonstration dwells;

A death-bed’s a detector of the heart.

Here tired Dissimulation drops her mask, 640

Through life’s grimace, that mistress of the scene!

Here real and apparent are the same.

You see the man; you see his hold on heaven;

If sound his virtue; as Philander’s, sound.

Heaven waits not the last moment; owns her friends