People, as to their manners and behaviour, take a strong bias from
custom and education, but a much stronger from Nature. Her laws are so
strong, that it is in vain for us to go to oppose them; we may refine
and improve, but can never totally alter her works. Upon this account it
is that we oftentimes see silly awkward blockheads displaying their
idiotism and folly through all their ensigns of dignity; for some
natures are so coarse and rustic, that all the embroidery of a court
cannot conceal them. Doubtless such people were intended by Nature for
nothing above driving Hogs to a fair, and laughing at the jokes of a
country Merry Andrew. Fortune has found them worthy of her favours, and
given them a lift out of the mire: but yet they do not fail to give
frequent indications of their true composition, by a thousand little
dirty actions. A fine equipage, and a great estate, may raise a man to
an exalted station, and procure a respect to his outward person;
notwithstanding which it may so happen, that every time he speaks and
acts he cannot help playing the fool for the blood of him.