Show me the chapter, let me see the text;

By laws uncertain subjects are perplex’d:

Let me my finger on the statute lay,

And I shall feel it duty to obey.”

“Reflect,” said Conscience, “’twas your own desire

That I should warn you - does the compact tire?

Repent you this? - then bid me not advise,

And rather hear your passions as they rise:

So you may counsel and remonstrance shun;

But then remember it is war begun;