Comprehension Passage

Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow

And the creature run from the cur?

There thou mightst behold the great image of authority: a dog’s obeyed in office. -

Thou rascal beadle, hold thy bloody hand!

Why dost thou lash that whore? Strip thine own back;

Thou hotly lust’st to use her in that kind

For which thou whipp’st her. The usurer hangs the cozener.

Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear;

Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,

And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;

Arm it in rags, a pigmy’s straw doth pierce it.

King Lear

The two sentences in the lines from "Through tatter'd clothes..."to"...straw doth pierce it" deal with two foibles, (I) vice and (II) sin. About these two, the speaker says that

1
Vice afflicts all but sin afflicts only the weak.
2
Sin afflicts all but vice afflicts only the strong.
3
Sin and vice are seen in both the weak and the strong.
4
Sin and vice are palpable in the weak and impalpable in the strong.

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