But, being seasoned with a gracious voice,

Obscures the show of evil? In religion,

What damned error, but some sober brow

Will bless it, and approve it with a text,

080 Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?

[081] There is no vice so simple, but assumes

[082] Some mark of virtue on his outward parts:

How many cowards, whose hearts are all as false

As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins

085 The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars;