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In this opening scene of the play, Giovanni has confessed to the Friar that he is in love with his sister Annabella. The Friar warns Giovanni against trying to use any logic or reasoning as a justification of this incestuous relationship, and instead look to his faith and the moral punishments of incest. Giovanni has not yet admitted his love to his sister, and the Friar begs him to reconsider his feelings, to recognize the punishments of Hell before giving in to lust. Giovanni swears that he
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FRIAR: Dispute no more in this, for know, young man,
These are no shool-points; nice philosophy
May tolerate unlikely arguments,
But Heaven admits no jest; wits that presumed
On wit too much, by striving how to prove
There was no God, with foolish grounds of art,
Discovered first the nearest way to Hell;
And filled the world with devilish atheism.
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