We may gather from hence, first, that People are Flesh and Blood in a
Cell, as well as in a Palace. _2ly_, That it is a very great Mastery,
for a Man to stand Firm, in a Case, where Humane Frailty, Violent
Inclinations, and the Preservation of Life it self, are in a Conspiracy
against his Virtue. _3ly._ That a very Pious Good Man may think himself
Better then he Is, for want of an Occasion to try the Force of his
Goodness and Resolution. _4ly._ That when the Flesh and the Devil have
once got the better of a Scrupulous Conscience, it puts a Man past All
Sense of Shame, as well as of the Sin; to the Degree of Glorying in his
Wickedness. The _Holy Man_ was not so much Troubled, it seems, at the Use
of the _Remedy_, as that he had not try’d the _Experiment_ sooner. You
may Talk what you will (says _Lais_) of your Philosophers and Learned
Men; but I have as many Visits from Those Sparks as from Other People.
And she was much in the Right on’t.