11.19

There are four ill Qualities we must be particularly careful to avoid, 15 and pull them up as fast as we find them grow in our Heads: and undertake them as they rise in this fashion. This fancy (say) is Groundless and Unnecessary: This rough behaviour makes Society , and Correspondence impracticable : This t'other is but a Copy of your Countenance; you can't say it from your heart, 16 Now this is a very bad Character. There's Three of them : And whatever you are conscious degrades the Diviner part of you, makes your Mind Truckle to your Body , and your Reason to your Pleasures, look upon that as the Fourth.

Translator Notes

  1. 15.
    D'acier supposes the Emperour means Suspiciousness, ill Language, Lying and intemperance.
  2. 16.
    See Book 2. 16.