 was indeed extremely glad to see her, and was no sooner acquainted with the
Reasons which induced her to leave the Squire and fly to London, than she highly
applauded her Sense and Resolution; and after expressing the highest
Satisfaction in the Opinion which Sophia had declared she entertained of her
Ladyship, by chusing her House for an Asylum, she promised her all the
Protection which it was in her Power to give.
    As we have now brought Sophia into safe Hands, the Reader will, I apprehend,
be contented to deposite her there a while, and to look a little after other
Personages, and particularly poor Jones, whom we have left long enough to do
Pennance for his past Offences, which, as is the Nature of Vice, brought
sufficient Punishment upon him themselves.
 

                                    Book XII

              Containing the same individual Time with the former.
 

                                   Chapter I

 Shewing what is to be deemed Plagiarism in a modern Author, and what is to be
                          considered as lawful Prize.
 
The learned Reader must have observed, that in the Course of this mighty Work, I
have often translated Passages out of the best antient Authors, without quoting
the Original, or without taking the least Notice of the Book from whence they
were borrowed.
    This Conduct in Writing is placed in a very proper Light by the ingenious
Abbé Bannier, in his Preface to his Mythology, a Work of great Erudition, and of
equal Judgment. »It will be easy,« says he, »for the Reader to observe, that I
have frequently had greater Regard to him, than to my own Reputation: For an
Author certainly pays him a considerable Compliment, when, for his Sake, he
suppresses learned Quotations that come in his Way, and which would have cost
him but the bare Trouble of transcribing.«
    To fill up a Work with these Scraps may indeed be considered as a downright
Cheat on the learned World, who are by such Means imposed upon to buy a second
Time in Fragments and by Retail what they have already in Gross, if not in their
Memories, upon their Shelves; and it is still more cruel upon the Illiterate,
who are drawn in to pay for what is of no manner of Use to them. A Writer who
intermixes great Quantity of Greek and Latin with his Works, deals by the Ladies
and fine Gentlemen in the same paultry Manner with which they are treated by the
Auctioneers, who often endeavour so to confound and mix up their Lots, that, in
order to purchase the Commodity you want, you are obliged at the same Time to
purchase that which will do you no Service.
    And yet as
