Not only does the sympathetic godfather enter into these literary adventures, as Mr. Locke, with all his wisdom, never could have done, but he knows the virtue of an unpointed moral: the boy, he says, “had made Remarks, which might be of Service to him during the Course of his whole Life. He would tell you the Mismanagements of _John Hickathrift_, find Fault with the passionate Temper in _Bevis of Southampton_ and loved _St. George_ for being the Champion of _England_; and by this Means had his Thoughts insensibly moulded into the Notions of Discretion, Virtue and Honour”.