How happens it, Mortals are jumbled together

Without Care in Crowds and in all kinds of Weather?

Or why press the Throng at Assemblies so thick,

If people had not a Delight to be sick?

“What then are the Causes of human Distress? 280

Let Pedants and Preachers have Grace to confess:

There’s nothing such varied Disasters can hit

Like Religion and Virtue, Good Nature and Wit.

“Religion, what horrid Opinions it starts,

How it cramps our Ambition, and deadens our Hearts;