or dust about the orchestra of a theatre, will the sound be
deadened?--and why, when one would have set up a bronze Alexander
for a frontispiece to a stage at Pella, did the architect advise to
the contrary, because it would spoil the actors' voices? and why,
of the several kinds of music, will the chromatic diffuse and the
harmonic compose the mind? But now the several humors of poets,
their differing turns and forms of style, and the solutions of
their difficult places, have conjoined with a sort of dignity and
politeness somewhat also that is extremely agreeable and charming;
insomuch that to me they seem to do what was once said by Xenophon,
to make a man even forget the joys of love, so powerful and
overcoming is the pleasure they bring us.

In this investigation these gentlemen have not the least share, nor
do they so much as pretend or desire to have any. But while they
are sinking and depressing their contemplative part into the body,
and dragging it down by their sensual and intemperate appetites, as
by so many weights of lead, they make themselves appear little
better than hostlers or graziers that still ply their cattle with
hay, straw, or grass, looking upon such provender as the properest
and meetest food for them. And is it not even thus they would
swill the mind with the pleasures of the body, as hogherds do their
swine, while they will not allow it can be gay any longer than it
is hoping, experiencing, or remembering something that refers to
the body; but will not have it either to receive or seek for any
congenial joy or satisfaction from within itself? Though what can
be more absurd and unreasonable than--when there are two things
that go to make up the man, a body and a soul, and the soul besides
hath the perogative of governing--that the body should have its
peculiar, natural, and proper good, and the soul none at all, but