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ARGUMENT.

There are found amid the Evils of a laborious Life, some Views of Tranquillity and Happiness.—The Repose and Pleasure of a Summer Sabbath; interrupted by Intoxication and Dispute.—Village Detraction.—Complaints of the 'Squire.—The Evening Riots.—Justice.—Reasons for this unpleasant View of Rustic Life: the Effect it should have upon the Lower Classes; and the Higher.—These last have their peculiar distresses: exemplified in the Life and heroic Death of Lord Robert Manners.—Concluding Address to his Grace the Duke of Rutland.