Beyond these humble graves, of grievous crimes

And strange disasters;[558] but I pass them by,

Loth to disturb what Heaven hath hushed in peace.

—Still less, far less, am I inclined to treat

Of Man degraded in his Maker's sight

By the deformities of brutish vice:

For, in such portraits, though a vulgar face[559]

And a coarse outside of repulsive life

And unaffecting manners might at once[560]

Be recognised by all—" "Ah! do not think,"