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_.--

In _Pamela_, in particular, we owe All to her _Lowness_. It is to
the docile Effects of this Lowness of _that amiable Girl_, in her
Birth, her Condition, her Hopes, and her Vanities, in every thing,
in short, but her _Virtue_,---that her Readers are indebted, for the
moral _Reward_, of that _Virtue_. And if we are to look for the
_Low_ among the Rest of the Servants, less lovely tho' they are,
than a _Pamela_, there is something however, so glowingly painted,
in the Lines whereby the Author has mark'd their
Distinctions----Something, so movingly forceful, i