POsthumus boasts he does not Thunder fear,
And for this cause would Innocent appear;
That in his Soul no Terrour he does feel,
At threatn’d Vultures, or Ixion’s Wheel,
Which fright the Guilty: But when Fabius told
What Acts ‘gainst Murder lately were enrol’d,
‘Gainst Incest, Rapine, —- straight upon the Tale
His Colour chang’d, and Posthumus grew pale.
His Impious Courage had no other Root,
But that the Villaine, Atheist was to boot.
(Anne Killigrew)
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