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 if you hall have hereafter the Goodnes to forgive me, I hope I hall deerve it.’

Allworthy heitated ome Time, and at lat aid, ‘Well, I will dicharge my Mittimus.—You may end the Contable to me.’ He was intantly called, dicharged, and o was the Girl.

It will be believed, that Mr. Allworthy failed not to read Tom a very evere Lecture on this Occaion; but it is unneceary to inert it here, as we have faithfully transcribed what he aid to Jenny Jones in the firt Book, mot of which may be applied to the Men, equally with the Women. So enible an Effect had thee Reproofs on the young Man, who was no hardened Sinner, that he retired to his own Room, where he paed the Evening alone in much melancholy Contemplation.

Allworthy was ufficiently offended by this Trangreion of Jones; for notwithtanding the Aertions of Mr. Wetern, it is certain this worthy Man had never indulged himelf in any looe Pleaures with Women, and greatly condemned the Vice of Incontinence in others. Indeed, there is much Reaon to imagine, that there was not the