Upon her goodness and her chastity!
Her very virtue makes her heedless: youth 130
Reveals imprudent, nay injurious, truth;
Whereas, if conscious that she merit blame,
She grows discreet, and well defends her fame,
And thus, offending, better makes her way—
As Joseph Surface argues in the play—
Than when in virtue’s strength she proudly stood,
So wrongly right, and so absurdly good.
Now, when your Charles shall be your judge, and try }