To spread this lie, to make men virtuous so!"
Answer.
Do you, then, think this moral Virtue, good?
I think you do! even for your private gain;
For commonwealths by Virtue ever stood;
And common good, the private doth contain.
If then this Virtue, you do love so well,
Have you no means, her practice to maintain?
But you this lie must to the people tell,
"That good Souls live in joy, and ill in pain."