see his natural faculties exert themselves, and attract an eye of favour towards his infirmities.  But if we look round us here, how many dull rogues are there, that would fain be what this poor man hates himself for?  All the noise towards six in the evening,[290] is caused by his mimics and imitators.  How ought men of sense to be careful of their actions, if it were merely from the indignation of feeling themselves ill drawn by such little pretenders? not to say, he that leads, is guilty of all the actions of his followers:  and a rake has imitators whom you would never expect should prove so.  Second-hand vice sure of all is the most nauseous.  There is hardly a folly more absurd, or which seems less to be accounted for (though it is what we see every day) than that grave and honest natures give into this way, and at the same time have good sense, if they thought fit to use it:  but the fatality (under which most men labour) of desiring to be what they are not, makes them go out of a method, in which they might be received with applause, and would certainly excel, into one, wherein they will all their life have the air of strangers to what they aim at.  For this reason, I have not lamented the metamorphosis of any one I know so much as of Nobilis, who was born with sweetness of temper, just apprehension, and everything else that might make him a man fit for his order.  But instead of the pursuit of sober studies and applications, in which he would certainly be capable of making a considerable figure in the noblest assembly of men in the world; I say, in spite of that good nature, which is his proper bent, he will say ill-natured things aloud, put such as he was, and still should be, out of countenance, and drown all the natural good in him, to receive an artificial ill character, in which he will never succeed:  for Nobilis is no rake.  He may guzzle as much wine as he pleases, talk bawdy if he thinks fit; but he may as well drink water-gruel, and go twice a day to church, for it will never do.  I pronounce it again, Nobilis is no rake.  To be of that order, he must be vicious against his will, and not so by study or application.  All Pretty Fellows are also excluded to a man, as well as all Inamaratos, or persons of the epicene gender, who gaze at one another in the presence of ladies.  This class, of which I am giving you an account, is pretended to also by men of strong abilities in drinking; though they are such whom the liquor, not the conversation, keeps together.  But blockheads may roar, fight, and stab, and be never the nearer; their labour is also lost; they want sense:  they are no rakes.