(The crown and strength of all his faculties)
Floats like a dead-drown’d body, on the stream
Of vulgar humour, mix’d with common’st dregs:
I suffer for their guilt now; and my soul
(Like one that looks on ill-affected eyes)
Is hurt with mere intention on their follies.
Why will I view them then? my sense might ask me:
Or is’t a rarity or some new object
That strains my strict observance to this point:
But such is the perverseness of our nature,