But now begin to think the laugher’s wrong!
Nay, my good uncle, by all teachers moved,
Will be preferr’d to him who none approved; -
Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.”
Such were his thoughts, when Conscience first began
To hold close converse with th’ awaken’d man:
He from that time reserved and cautious grew,
And for his duties felt obedience due;
Pious he was not, but he fear’d the pain
Of sins committed, nor would sin again: