Aid in your doubts, it were a happy task. 390
But you, alas! the while, are not perplex’d
By the dark meaning of a threat’ning text;
You rather censure her who spends her time
In search of Truth, as if it were a crime!
Could I your dread of vulgar scandal feel,
To whom should I, in my distress, appeal?
A time there may be, Charles, indeed there must, }
When you will need a faithful Priest to trust, }
In conscience tender, but in counsel just. }