BOOK II.

ARGUMENT.

There are found amid the Evils of a Laborious Life, some Views of

Tranquillity and Happiness.--The Repose and Pleasure of a Summer

Sabbath: interrupted by Intoxication and Dispute.--Village

Detraction.--Complaints of the Squire.--The Evening

Riots.--Justice.--Reasons for this unpleasant View of Rustic Life:

the Effect it should have upon the Lower Classes; and the

Higher.--These last have their peculiar Distresses: Exemplified in

the Life and heroic Death of Lord Robert Manners.--Concluding

Address to his Grace the Duke of Rutland.

THE VILLAGE.

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