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Let a man be kind, generous, charitable, tolerant, brave, honest--and we may pardon him vices of young blood, and the stains of adventurous living. Fielding has no mercy on a seducer. Lovelace would have fared worse with him than with Richardson, who, I verily believe, admired that infernal (excuse me) coward and villain. The case of young Nightingale, in
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Tom Jones, will show you what Fielding thought of such gallants. Why, Tom himself preaches to Nightingale.
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Miss Nancy's Interest alone, and not yours, ought to be your sole Consideration, cried Thomas, . . .