Satire, however, does not confine itself to Dons: undergraduates come in for a share of it too, though in a different way. When the novelist condescends to depict the Fellow of a college, it is usually as a person more or less feeble, futile, and generally _manqué_. The Don can never be a hero, but neither is he qualified to play the part of villain; his virtues and his vices are all alike inadequate. If he is bad, his badness is rarely more than contemptible; if he is good, it is in a negative and passionless way, and the great rewards of life are, as a rule, considered as being out of his reach. But with the undergraduate the case is different. He--as we have said--is always in extremes: literature gives him the premier _rôle_ either as hero or villain; but it is as the villain that he is the most interesting and picturesque. Satire and fiction generally describe him as an adept in vicious habits. So sings Mr. Robert Montgomery, with admirable propriety:-- ’In Oxford see the Reprobate appear! Big with the promise of a mad career: With cash and consequence to lead the way, A fool by night and more than fop by day!’ Over and over again we have the old picture of the Rake’s Progress which the world has learnt to know so well: the youth absents himself from his lectures, perhaps even goes to Woodstock (horrid thought!)--’Woodstock rattles with eternal wheels’ is the elegant phrase of Mr. Montgomery--and, in short, plays the fool generally:-- ’Till night advance, whose reign divine Is chastely dedicate to cards and wine.’ [Illustration: _PARSON’S PLEASURE. Drawn by L. Speed._]