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 cept, my worthy Diciples, if you read with due Attention, you will, I hope, find ufficiently enforced by Examples in the following Pages.

I ak Pardon for this hort Appearance, by Way of Chorus on the Stage. It is in Reality for my own Sake, that while I am dicovering the Rocks on which Innocence and Goodnes often plit, I may not be miundertood to recommend the very Means to my worthy Readers, by which I intend to hew them they will be undone. And this, as I could not prevail on any of my Actors to peak, I was obliged to declare myelf.  A childih Incident, in which, however, is een a good natur’d Dipoition in Tom Jones.

HE Reader may remember, that Mr. Allworthy gave Tom Jones a little Hore, as a kind of mart Money for the Punihment, which he imagined he had uffered innocently.