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 ‘Your Worhip is pleaed to be jocular,’ anwered the Paron, ‘but I do not only animadvert on the Sinfulnes of the Action, thought that urely is to be greatly deprecated; but I fear his Unrighteounes may injure him with Mr. Allworthy. And truly I mut ay, though he hath the Character of being a little wild, I never aw any Harm in the young Man; nor can I ay I have heard any, ave what your Worhip now mentions. I wih, indeed he was a little more regular in his Repones at Church; but altogether he eems

‘That is a claical Line, young Lady, and being rendered into Englih, is, A Lad of an ingenuous Countenance and of an ingenuous Modety: For this was a Virtue in great Repute both among the Latins and Greeks. I mut ay the young Gentleman (for o I think I may call him, notwithtanding his Birth) appears to me a very modet, civil Lad, and I hould be orry that he hould do himelf any Injury in Squire Allworthy’s Opinion.’

‘Poogh!’ ays the Squire, ‘Injury with Allworthy! Why Allworthy loves a