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Now though I'm subject to your false impression,
Thus intended to avoid your own confession,
And meant to slight the true image I portray,
Alas, I am to truth bound in all I say.
Yet you would deprive the sacredness of my word,
With ungracious argument, that is so absurd,
For in so doing you demean your own discussion,
By the oblique evasion behind your accusation.
The simplicity of an error is better stated
Than left in suspicion where it will be inflated.
No Kings nor Queens nor Priests can, truth ignore,
And things behind it are revealed when we close the door.
Ah! Children are all taught to state their error,
Yet those who teach them often flee in terror.
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