was very entertaining the other Night at a Play to a Gentleman who sat on his right Hand, while I was at his Left.

[The]

Gentleman believed

Will

. was talking to himself, when upon my looking with great Approbation at a

young thing

[2]

in a Box before us, he said,

'I am quite of another Opinion: She has, I will allow, a very pleasing Aspect, but, methinks, that Simplicity in her Countenance is rather childish than innocent.'

When I observed her a second time, he said,