“Ask not of me to be brought

Within; none guiltless enter but, like me,

They set in charge under Queen Hecate.

Herself, installing me, vouchsafed to tell

The system on which Heaven peoples Hell.

Committals hither are on sentence giv’n

By Rhadamanthus, righteous as Heav’n.

A sinner joys in craft that has concealed

His crime in life; but here it stands revealed

Blazing as the Sun; how vain cunning when