"Though the wisdom of Nature can reason it thus and thus."
We should surely read man. 'Nature' is in the following line, and hence the error.
"Banishment of friends, dissipation of cohorts."
Johnson read courts. 'Cohorts' is not a Shakespearian term.
Sc. 3.
"With checks; as flatteries, when they are seen, are abused."
It is only thus I can make sense.