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The History of
Book V.

Youth, Health, and Beauty; as one greatly the Object of Deſire, and much the more ſo, at leaſt to a good Mind, from being, at the ſame time, the Object of Compaſſion.

Amidſt theſe Thoughts, poor Jones paſſed a long ſleepleſs Night, and in the Morning the Reſult of the whole was to abide by Molly, and to think no more of Sophia.

In this virtuous Reſolution he continued all the next Day till the Evening, cheriſhing the Idea of Molly, and driving Sophia from his Thoughts; but in the fatal Evening, a very trifling Accident ſet all his Paſſions again on Float, and worked ſo total a Change in his Mind, that we think it decent to communicate it in a freſh Chapter.

CHAP. IV.

A little Chapter, in which is contained a little Incident.

Among other Viſitants, who paid their Compliments to the young Gentleman in his Confinement, Mrs. Honour was one. The Reader, perhaps, when he reflects on ſome Expreſſions which have for-merly