On the influence of wine in 18th Century literature

After discovering Molly sharing a bed with Square and gladly wishing her good riddance, the inebriated Jones nevertheless some days later falls in with her in the bushes, one night.

Thus Fielding, in prose both amusing and rhymed.

Some of my readers may be inclined to think this event unnatural.

However, the fact is true; and perhaps may be sufficiently accounted for by suggesting that Jones probably thought one woman better than none, and Molly as probably imagined two men to be better than one.

Reading Tom Jones.

At this point in the story, Book 5 Chapter 10, while Sophia loves Tom and he loves her, their affections are not declared and Squire Western has made it abundantly clear several times that he is not the least bit open to Jones gaining possession of his daughter or his estate.