CHAP. VI.
By comparing which with the former, the Reader may poſſibly correct ſome Abuſe which he hath formerly been guilty of, in the Application of the Word Love.
The Infidelity of Molly, which Jones had now diſcovered, would, perhaps, have vindicated a much greater Degree of Reſentment than he expreſſed on the Occaſion; and if he had abandoned her directly from that Moment, very few, I believe, would have blamed him.
Certain, however, it is, that he ſaw her in the Light of Compaſſion; and tho’ his Love to her was not of that Kind which could give him any great Uneaſineſs at her Inconſtancy, yet was he not a little ſhocked on reflecting that he had himſelf originally corrupted her Innocence; for to this Corruption he imputed all the Vice, into which ſhe now appeared ſo likely to plunge herſelf.
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