Book III, 98: On Mans Folly

Ideots, and Sense-bound Lunaticks discerne
'Twixt Salt and Suger; very Babes will learne
To know a Counter from the currant Coyne;
Bruit Beasts, by' Instinct of Nature, will decline
Th'alluring Bait, and sense-beguiling Snare;
Though that seeme ne'r so sweet; this, ne'r so faire:
Yet Man, heav'ns greatest Master-piece will chuse,
What Fooles, and Mad-men, Beasts, and Babes refuse:
Delights in dangerous Pleasures, and beneath
The name of Ioyes, pleases himselfe to death.