7. The odd Adventures, and Embarrassments, which _Persons_ in _real Life_ are drawn into by their _Foibles_, are fit Subjects of _Mirth_. --Whereas in pure WIT, the Allusions are rather _surprizing_, than _mirthful_; and the _Agreements_ or _Contrasts_ which are started between Objects, without any relation to the _Foibles_ of _Persons_ in real Life, are more fit to be _admired_ for their _Happiness_ and _Propriety_, than to excite our _Laughter_.--Besides, WIT, in the frequent Repetition of it, tires the Imagination with its precipitate Sallies and Flights; and teizes the Judgment.--Whereas HUMOUR, in the Representation of it, puts no Fatigue upon the _Imagination_, and gives exquisite Pleasure to the _Judgment_. These seem to me to be the different Powers and Effects of HUMOUR and WIT. However, the most agreeable Representations or Competitions of all others, appear not where they _separately_ exist, but where they are _united_ together in the same Fabric; where HUMOUR is the _Ground- work_ and chief Substance, and WIT happily spread, _quickens_ the whole with Embellishments. This is the Excellency of the _Character_ of Sir _John Falstaff_; the _Ground-work_ is _Humour_, the Representation and Detection of a bragging and vaunting _Coward_ in _real Life_; However, this alone would only have expos'd the _Knight_, as a meer _Noll Bluff_, to the Derision of the Company; And after they had once been gratify'd with his Chastisement, he would have sunk into Infamy, and become quite odious and intolerable: But here the inimitable _Wit_ of Sir _John_ comes in to his Support, and gives a new _Rise_ and _Lustre_ to his Character; For the sake of his _Wit_ you forgive his _Cowardice_; or rather, are fond of his _Cowardice_ for the Occasions it gives to his _Wit_. In short, the _Humour_ furnishes a Subject and Spur to the _Wit_, and the _Wit_ again supports and embellishes the _Humour_.