Wench, Double Tripe:  I should have shewed, that Humanity obliges a Gentleman to give no Part of Humankind Reproach, for what they, whom they Reproach, may possibly have in Common with the most Virtuous and Worthy amongst us.  When a Gentleman speaks Coarsly, he has dressed himself Clean to no purpose:  The Cloathing of our Minds certainly ought to be regarded before that of our Bodies.  To betray in a Man’s Talk a corrupted Imagination, is a much greater Offence against the Conversation of Gentlemen, than any Negligence of Dress imaginable.  But this Sense of the Matter is so far from being received among People even of Condition, that Vocifer passes for a fine Gentleman.  He is Loud, Haughty, Gentle, Soft, Lewd, and Obsequious by turns, just as a little Understanding and great Impudence prompt him at the present Moment.  He passes among the silly Part of our Women for a Man of Wit, because he is generally in Doubt.  He contradicts with a Shrug, and confutes with a certain Sufficiency, in professing such and such a Thing is above his Capacity.  What makes his Character the pleasanter is, that he is a professed Deluder of Women; and because the empty Coxcomb has no Regard to any thing that is of it self Sacred and Inviolable, I have heard an unmarried Lady of Fortune say, It is pity so fine a Gentleman as Vocifer is so great an Atheist.  The Crowds of such inconsiderable Creatures that infest all Places of Assembling, every Reader will have in his Eye from his own Observation; but would it not be worth considering what sort of Figure a Man who formed himself upon those Principles among us, which are agreeable to the Dictates of Honour and Religion, would make in the familiar and ordinary Occurrences of Life?

I hardly have observed any one fill his several Duties of Life better than Ignotus.  All the under Parts of his Behaviour and such as are exposed to common Observation, have their Rise in him from great and noble Motives.  A firm and unshaken Expectation of another Life, makes him become this; Humanity and Good-nature, fortified by the Sense of Virtue, has the same Effect upon him, as the Neglect of all Goodness has upon many others.  Being firmly established in all Matters of Importance, that certain Inattention which makes Men’s Actions look easie appears in him with greater Beauty:  By a thorough Contempt of little Excellencies, he is perfectly Master of them.  This Temper of Mind leaves him under no Necessity of Studying his Air, and he has this peculiar Distinction, that his Negligence is unaffected.

He that can work himself into a Pleasure in considering this Being as an uncertain one, and think to reap an Advantage by its Discontinuance, is in a fair way of doing all things with a graceful Unconcern, and Gentleman-like Ease.  Such a one does not behold his Life as a short, transient, perplexing State, made up of trifling Pleasures, and great Anxieties; but sees it in quite another Light; his Griefs are