together, when the _Raillery_ is founded upon some _real_
Embarrassment in the Circumstance, as well as in the Confusion of the
Person attack'd, will furnish a very high Entertainment; which has
Pretensions to rival either _Humour_ and _Wit_, or _Humour_ and
_Ridicule_.

To give an Instance of _Humour_ and _Raillery_, I shall insert
_Horace_'s famous Description of his Embarrassment with an impertinent
Fellow. This indeed is entitl'd, in almost all the Editions of
_Horace_, a _Satire_, but very improperly, as the Subject is not
_Vice_ or _Immorality_;

Ibam fortè viâ sacrâ, sicut meus est mos,
Nescio quid meditans nugarum, at totus in illis:
Accurrit quidam notus mihi nomine tantum;
Arreptâque manu, Quid agis, dulcissime rerum?
Suaviter, ut nunc est, inquam: & cupio omnia quæ vis.
Cum affectaretur, Num quid vis? occupo. At ille,
Nôris nos, inquit; docti sumus. Hìc ego: Pluris
Hoc, inquam, mihi eris. Miserè discedere quærens,
Ire modò ocyùs, interdum consistere: in aurem
Dicere nescio quid puero: cùm sudor ad imos
Manaret talos. O te, Bollane, cerebri
Felicem: aiebam tacitus! Cùm quidlibet ille
Garriret, vicos, urbem laudaret; ut illi
Nil respondebam: Miserè cupis, inquit abire.
Jamdudum video: sed nil agis: usque tenebo:
Persequar: hinc quò nunc iter est tibi? Nil opus est te
Circumagi: quemdam volo visere, non tibi notum:
Trans Tiberim longè cubat is, propè Cæsaris hortos.