Whore, while they envied her her Lover and her Finery, and would have been themſelves gladt o have purchaſed theſe at the ſame Rate. The Ruin, therefore, of the poor Girl muſt, he foreſaw, unavoidably attend his deſerting her; and this Thought ſtung him to the Soul. Poverty and Diſtreſs ſeemed to him to give none a Right of aggravating thoſe Misfortunes. The Meanneſs of her Condition did not repreſent her Miſery as of little Conſequence in his Eyes, nor did it appear to juſtify, or even to palliate, his Guilt, in bringing that Miſery upon her. But why do I mention Juſtification; his own Heart would not ſuffer him to deſtroy a human Creature, who, he thought, loved him, and had to that Love ſacrificed her Innocence. His own good Heart pleaded her Cauſe; not as a cold venal Advocate; but as one intereſted in the Event, and which muſt itſelf deeply ſhare in all the Agonies its Owner brought on another.
When this cunning Advocate had ſufficiently raiſed the Pity of Jones, by painting poor Molly in all the Circumſtances of Wretchedneſs; it artfully called in the Aſſiſtance of another Paſſion, and repreſented the Girl in all the amiable Colours ofYouth,
