Virtue? A fig! ’Tis in ourselves that we are thus or 361 thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our 362 wills are gardeners.
IAGO
Virtue? A fig! ’Tis in ourselves that we are thus or 361
thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our 362
wills are gardeners. So that if we will plant nettles 363
or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, 364
supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it 365
with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or 366
manured with industry, why the power and corrigi-367
ble authority of this lies in our wills. If the ⟨balance⟩ 368
of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise 369
another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our 370
natures would conduct us to most prepost’rous 371
conclusions. But we have reason to cool our raging 372
motions, our carnal stings, ⟨our⟩ unbitted lusts—373
whereof I take this that you call love to be a sect, or 374
scion. 375
