“Why did you, sir, who know such things so well,
And teach us good, permit them to rebel? 320
Had you o’erawed and check’d them when in sight,
They would not then have ventured upon flight—
Had you”——“Out, serpent! did not you begin?
What! introduce, and then upbraid, the sin?
For sin it is, as I too well perceive;
But leave me, woman, to reflection leave;
Then to your closet fly, and on your knees
Beg for forgiveness for such sins as these.”