'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed,

如果未然却被指责为已然，

When not to be receives reproach of being;

真的卑贱倒强似被认作卑贱；

And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed

失去了正当的欢愉，那评判

Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing.

并非依我所感而是他人之见：

For why should others' false adulterate eyes

Give salutation to my sportive blood?

凭什么别人虚伪下流的双眼

Or on my frailties why are frailer spies,

要来打量我躁动澎湃的热血？

Which in their wills count bad what I think good?

为何更弱者反窥探我的弱点，

No, I am that I am, and they that level

凭其淫欲来颠倒我心的善恶？

At my abuses reckon up their own:

I may be straight though they themselves be bevel;

不，我就是我，那帮人细数

By their rank thoughts, my deeds must not be shown;

他们自己的罪过来将我衡量：

  Unless this general evil they maintain,

我应该是正直的但他们自己扭曲，

  All men are bad and in their badness reign.

在龌龊思想里我的行为岂能显扬；

除非他们尊奉这普遍的邪理，

众人皆恶且他们因恶而无敌。