On an ATHEIST. <br />Posthumus boasts he does not Thunder fear, <br />And for this cause would Innocent appear; <br />That in his Soul no Terrour he does feel, <br />At threatn'd Vultures, or Ixion's Wheel, <br />Which fright the Guilty: But when Fabius told <br />What Acts 'gainst Murder lately were enrol'd, <br />'Gainst Incest, Rapine,—straight upon the Tale <br />His Colour chang'd, and Posthumus grew pale. <br />His Impious Courage had no other Root, <br />But that the Villaine, Atheist was to boot.<br /><br />Anne Killigrew<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-third-epigram/
