Take heed; stand fast; be sure to be a knave;
A knave in grain! ne’er deviate to the right:
Should’st thou be good—how infinite thy loss! 1380
Guilt only makes annihilation gain. 1381
Bless’d scheme! which life deprives of comfort, death
Of hope; and which Vice only recommends.
If so, where, infidels! your bait thrown out
To catch weak converts? where your lofty boast
Of zeal for virtue, and of love to man?
Annihilation! I confess, in these.