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 Youth, Health, and Beauty; as one greatly the Object of Deire, and much the more o, at leat to a good Mind, from being, at the ame time, the Object of Compaion.

Amidt thee Thoughts, poor Jones paed a long leeples Night, and in the Morning the Reult of the whole was to abide by Molly, and to think no more of Sophia.

In this virtuous Reolution he continued all the next Day till the Evening, cherihing the Idea of Molly, and driving Sophia from his Thoughts; but in the fatal Evening, a very trifling Accident et all his Paions again on Float, and worked o total a Change in his Mind, that we think it decent to communicate it in a freh Chapter.  A little Chapter, in which is contained a little Incident.

MONG other Viitants, who paid their Compliments to the young Gentleman in his Confinement, Mrs. Honour was one. The Reader, perhaps, when he reflects on ome Expreions which have for-