What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.

The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices
Make instruments to plague us.

The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.

The vices we scoff at in others, laugh at us within ourselves.

A vice is a failure of desire.

A vice is a failure of desire.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher.

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

And last the Vice and Follies of the Age.

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice

Vice is its own reward

Vice is its own reward

There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.

There is no vice so simple but assumes
Some mark of virtue on his outward parts.