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 * Sam.Spare that proposal, Father, spare the trouble

Of that sollicitation; let me here, As I deserve, pay on my punishment; And expiate, if possible, my crime, Shameful garrulity. To have reveal'd Secrets of men, the secrets of a friend, How heinous had the fact been, how deserving Contempt, and scorn of all, to be excluded All friendship, and avoided as a blab, The mark of fool set on his front? But I Gods counsel have not kept, his holy secret Presumptuously have publish'd, impiously, Weakly at least, and shamefully: A sin That Gentiles in thir Parables condemn To thir abyss and horrid pains confin'd.
 * Man.Be penitent and for thy fault contrite,

But act not in thy own affliction, Son, Repent the sin, but if the punishment Thou canst avoid, self-preservation bids; Rh