And then they vanish’d with triumphant shout.
So think the crowd, and well it seems in them, 230
That ev’n their dreams and fancies vice condemn;
That not alone for virtue Reason pleads,
But Nature shudders at unholy deeds;
While our strong fancy lists in her defence,
And takes the side of Truth and Innocence.
IV.
P. But, what the fortune of the Man, whose fear
Inform’d his Conscience that the foe was near;