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;