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.