Yet shun their fault, who, scandalously nice,
Will needs mistake an Author into vice:
All seems infected that th' infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye.
Pope—Ess. on Crit.
Truth would you teach, or save a sinking land,
All fear, none aid you, and few understand.
Ess. on Man.
———If it do him right,
Then he hath wrong'd himself; if he be free,
Why then, my taxing, like a wild-goose, flies
Unclaim'd of any man. Shakesp.