But you're a man of learning, prudent, just:
A man of courage, firm, and fit for trust.
Why, you may stay, and live unenvied here;
But, 'faith! go back, and keep you where you were.
Nay, if nothing of all this were in the case, yet the very sight of
uncleanness is loathsome to the cleanly; the sight of folly and
impiety vexatious to the wise and pious.
Lucretius, by his favour, though a good poet, was but an ill-natured
man, when he said, "It was delightful to see other men in a great
storm." And no less ill-natured should I think Democritus, who
laughed at all the world, but that he retired himself so much out of
it that we may perceive he took no great pleasure in that kind of
mirth. I have been drawn twice or thrice by company to go to
Bedlam, and have seen others very much delighted with the
fantastical extravagancy of so many various madnesses, which upon me
wrought so contrary an effect, that I always returned not only
melancholy, but even sick with the sight. My compassion there was
perhaps too tender, for I meet a thousand madmen abroad, without any
perturbation, though, to weigh the matter justly, the total loss of
reason is less deplorable than the total depravation of it.
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