Rhetoric of the Conscience in Donne, Herbert, and Vaughan

There is a kind of conscience some men keepe,Is like a Member that''s benumb''d with sleepe;Which, as it gathers Blood, and wakes agen,It shoots, and pricks, and feeles as bigg as tenDonne, Herbert, and Vaughan see the conscience as only partly theirs, only partly under their control. Of course, as theologians said, it ought to be a simple syllogism, comparing actions to God''s law, and giving ju...