and for the most part, it makes a dissolute youth, and an age a little out of countenance: but yet certainly again, if it light well, it makes virtues shine, and vices blush.

• 就大多数情况来说，年轻人美，就容易放荡，到老来，就失去恩宠。但是另一方面，如果美恰巧落在一个正当人身上，一定能使他的德行放射出光辉，使他的罪过引起面孔上羞愧的红晕。