7. That the Words, _p. 305._ _Foolish Thing that I am_, had better be _Foolish that I am_. The same Gentleman observes by way of _Postscript_, that Jokes are often more severe, and do more Mischief, than more solid Objections; and would have one or two Passages alter’d, to avoid giving Occasion for the Supposition of a double Entendre, particularly in two Places which he mentions, _viz._ _p. 175. and 181_. _He is pleased to take notice of several other Things of less Moment, some of which are merely typographical; and very kindly expresses, on the Whole, a high Opinion of the Performance, and thinks it may do a great deal of Good: For all which, as well as for his Objections, the Editor gives him very sincere Thanks._ _Others are of Opinion, That the Scenes in many Places, in the Beginning especially, are too low; and that the Passions of Lady _Davers_, in particular, are carried too high, and above Nature._ _And others have intimated, That _Pamela_ ought, for Example sake, to have discharg’d Mrs. _Jewkes_ from her Service._ _These are the most material Objections that have come to hand, all which are considered in the following [_del._ 5th] {Extracts from some of the most beautiful} Letters [_del._ 5th] {that have been written in any Language}:_ [8th adds change 4] The Gentleman’s Advice, not to alter _Pamela_ at all, was both friendly, and solidly just. I run in, with full Sail, to his Anchorage, that the low Scenes are no more out of Nature, than the high Passions of proud Lady _Davers_. Out of Nature, do they say? ’Tis my Astonishment how Men of Letters can read with such absent Attention! They are so far from _Out_ of _Nature_, They are absolute _Nature herself_! or, if they must be confess’d her _Resemblance_; they are _such_ a Resemblance, at least, as our _true Face_ gives our _Face_ in the _Looking-glass_. I wonder indeed, what it is, that the Gentlemen, who talk of _Low_ Scenes, wou’d desire should be understood by the Epithet?---Nothing, properly speaking, is _low_, that suits well with the Place it is rais’d to.----The Passions of Nature are the same, in the _Lord_, and his _Coach-man_. All, that makes them seem different consists in the _Degrees_, in the _Means_, and the _Air_, whereto or wherewith they indulge ’em. If, in painting Distinctions like these, (which arise but from the Forms of Men’s Manners, drawn from _Birth_, _Education_, and _Custom_) a Writer _falls short_ of his Characters, there his Scene is a low one, indeed, whatever high Fortune it flatter’d. But, to imagine that Persons of Rank are above a Concern for what is thought, felt, or acted, by others, of their Species, between whom and themselves is _no Difference_, except such as was owing to Accident, is to reduce Human Nature to a Lowness,--_too low_ for the _Truth_ of her _Frailty_.--