Colin
'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed,
When not to be receives reproach of being,
And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed
Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.
For why should others' false adulterate eyes
Give salutation to my sportive blood?
Although perhaps I feel this maybe a more understandable response to some
"I pray thee cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
as water in a sieve".
Or perhaps
"There but for the Grace of God, Go I"
Melvyn