[ Chapter v. — A very long chapter, containing a very great incident. ]

[ Chapter vi. — By comparing which with the former, the reader may possibly correct some abuse which he hath formerly been guilty of in the application of the word love. ]

[ Chapter vii. — In which Mr Allworthy appears on a sick-bed. ]

[ Chapter viii. — Containing matter rather natural than pleasing. ]

[ Chapter ix. — Which, among other things, may serve as a comment on that saying of Aeschines, that “drunkenness shows the mind of a man, as a mirrour reflects his person.” ]

[ Chapter x. — Showing the truth of many observations of Ovid, and of other more grave writers, who have proved beyond contradiction, that wine is often the forerunner of incontinency. ]

[ Chapter xi. — In which a simile in Mr Pope's period of a mile introduces as bloody a battle as can possibly be fought without the assistance of steel or cold iron. ]

[ Chapter xii. — In which is seen a more moving spectacle than all the blood in the bodies of Thwackum and Blifil, and of twenty other such, is capable of producing. ]

[ BOOK VI. — CONTAINING ABOUT THREE WEEKS. ]

[ Chapter i. — Of love. ]