Did something for the common good.
This was the state’s craft, that maintain’d
The whole of which each part complain’d: 170
This, as in music harmony
Made jarrings in the main agree,
Parties directly opposite,
Assist each other, as ’twere for spite;
And temp’rance with sobriety, 175
Serve drunkenness and gluttony.
The root of evil, avarice,