_Bellario_ answered, That he was not only satisfied with it, but highly applauded all the material Parts of it; that the various distressful Situations in which you had placed your Heroine, were noble beyond Expression; that these three last Volumes contained many Scenes, each singly arising to as high a Tragedy as can possibly be wrote; that the Tears you had drawn from his Eyes were such Tears as flow'd from a Heart at once filled with Admiration and Compassion, and labouring under Sensations too strong for any Utterance in Words; and that for the Sake of _Clarissa_, he would never form any Judgment of a Work again till the whole was lain before him. This was noble! this was candid! this was like _Bellario_! and Miss _Gibson_ could not forbear saying, that she rejoyced in the Tears _he_ had shed for _Clarissa_. And, Sir, (continued she) 'I am convinced, that those whose Eyes melt not at Scenes of well-wrought Distress, cannot properly be said to laugh, from a liberal and chearful Spirit, at the true Scenes of comic Humour.' 'The Beginning of this Season I went with a Lady, whose Acquaintance I accidentally fell into, to _Drury-Lane_ Play-house, where Mr. _Garrick_ performed the Part of King _Lear_. I should have thought (tho' altered and defaced as it is by Mr. _Tate_) that even Butchers must have wept; but to my great Astonishment, my Companion sat unmoved: Silent indeed she was, only now and then said, _she did not love Tragedy_; that, for her part, _she had rather laugh than cry_, and liked a Comedy best. I had a Curiosity to see in what manner comic Scenes would affect her; and therefore proposed going to _Covent-Garden_ Play-house the next Night, when Mr. _Quin_ was to play the Part of Sir _John Falstaff_, in _Harry_ the Fourth. Accordingly we went. The Lady did, indeed, now and then catch the Laugh of those around her, enough to move about her Features a little; but upon the whole, was pretty near as unmov'd as she had been the Night before; and at last she confessed, that the Humours of Sir _John Falstaff_ was not the Sort of Comedy that pleased her Fancy; but that the merry Dialogues between _Tom_ and _Phillis_ in the _Conscious Lovers_, and the comical Humours of _Ben_ and Miss _Prue_ in _Love for Love_, were more suited to her Taste. I was not much surprised, because I before suspected, that whoever could sit the Play of King _Lear_ without weeping, would see Sir _John Falstaff_ without laughing.'