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(the expence of much laborious thinking) to do honour to the Jacobite Party." In this curious frontispiece are seen two Jacobites-a man and a woman-dressed in the fashionable plaids and riding on an ass. The man, who sits astride in front, a Highland cap raised aloft in one hand, a cup in the other, is shouting a huzza; while the woman directly facing the reader, one hand grasping a French sword, the other resting on the rump of the beast, is bawling in unison. A sly Jesuit in the garb of a barefooted friar is leading the ass by a rope over which is flung a copy of "The London Evening Post," upon which the hungry animal is munching. To the tail of the ass is fastened a copy of Harrington's "Oceana" emblazoned with the fleurs-de-lis of France. In the background lies the city of London.

To this picture were given, said Fielding, various interpretations. Some readers thought the ass symbolized the author himself, arguing that, if an ass in Scripture once spoke, it might be inferred that his descendants had learned to write. Again, he had heard it suggested that the Jesuit stood for the old Chevalier, while the two other figures represented the young Chevalier and his mistress Jenny Cameron. Still others recognized in the plaids the features of certain squires and gentlewomen whom they had seen riding to the fox-chase. But all these resemblances to particular persons were, Fielding avowed, fanciful. The plaided man and woman (presumably his wife) were merely types having no definite originals; and the ass on which they rode was designed to figure neither the author nor other gentlemen of the press, but the whole body of Jacobite doctrine. He hoped that no offence would be taken at the emblem, for none was intended. To be sure, the ass had come to be regarded in modern times with some disrespect, but he was not so held by the ancients-neither by the Jews, who worshipped his golden image, nor by the

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