_Isa._ Oh! I see it is in vain to hide my Secrets from you. What need have I to confess what you already know? _Mart._ Confession was intended for the sake of the Penitent, not the Confessor: for to the Church all things are revealed. _Isa._ Oh! then I had a Dream----I dreamt----I dreamt----oh! I can never tell you what I dreamt. _Mart._ Horrible! _Isa._ I dreamt--I dreamt--I dreamt---- _Mart._ Oh! the Strength of Sin! _Isa._ I dreamt I was brought to bed of the Pope. _Mart._ The very Happiness I meant, let me embrace you, let me kiss you, my dear Daughter: Henceforth you may defy Purgatory--the Mother of a Pope was never there. _Isa._ But how can that be, when I am to be a Nun, Father? _Mart._ Leave the Means to me. Learn only to be passive, the Church will work the rest. A Pope is always the Son of a Nun. Go you to your Chamber, wash your self, then pray devoutly, shut every Ray of Light out, leave open the Door and expect the Consequence. _Isa._ Father, I shall be obedient--oh! the Villain! _Mart._ Be passive and be happy. SCENE V. Jourdain, Martin, Isabel. _Mart._ Ha! Why this unseasonable Interruption, while your Daughter is at Confession? _Jourd._ Oh, Father, I have brought you News will make you happy, will rejoice your poor Heart. My Daughter is redeemed. _Mart._ Out of Purgatory----vain Man! dost thou think to inform the Church?-- _Jourd._ I suppose St. _Francis_ has been beforehand with me. Indeed I should have imagined that before: for we seldom hear any thing from the Saints, but thro' the Mouth of a Priest. _Mart._ (What does he mean?) [_Aside._ _Jourd._ Well, Daughter, the Thoughts of a Nunnery now give you no Uneasiness. _Mart._ No, no, she is perfectly reconciled to it, and I am confident, would not quit the Nunnery for the Bed of a Prince. _Jourd._ Ha! would not quit the Nunnery, Heaven forbid. _Mart._ How! you are not mad! _Jourd._ Unless with Joy. I thought you had known that I have received an Order from St. _Francis_, to marry my Daughter immediately. _Mart._ Oh! Folly! to marry her immediately; why ay, to marry her to the Church, St. _Francis_ means. You see into what Errors the Laity run, when they go without the Leading-strings of the Church, and would interpret for themselves what they know nothing of. _Isa._ I'll take this Opportunity to steal off, and communicate a Design of mine to young _Laroon_, which may draw this Priest into a Snare he little dreams of. _Jourd._ But I cannot see how that should be St. Francis's Meaning: For tho' my Daughter may be married to the Church in a figurative Sense, sure, she cannot be with Child by the Church in a literal one. _Mart._ I see the Business now, unhappy Man! I was in Hopes to have prevented this----_Exorcizo te, Exorcizo te,_ Satan. _Ton Dapamibominos prosephe podas ocus Achilleus_. _Jourd._ Bless us, what mean you?