Produced by Charles Franks, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Every attempt has been made to replicate the original as printed. Archaic spellings, such as antient, expence, shew, inrolment, chearfully & encrease, have been retained. Illustrations have been moved from mid-paragraph for ease of reading. (etext transcriber's note) THE WORKS OF HENRY FIELDING EDITED BY GEORGE SAINTSBURY IN TWELVE VOLUMES VOL. XI. MISCELLANIES VOL. I. [Illustration: frontispiece] A JOURNEY FROM THIS WORLD TO THE NEXT AND A VOYAGE TO LISBON BY HENRY FIELDING ESQ [Illustration: text decoration] EDITED BY GEORGE SAINTSBURY WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY HERBERT RAILTON & F. J. WHEELER. LONDON PUBLISHED BY J. M. DENT & CO. AT ALDINE HOUSE IN GREAT EASTERN STREET MDCCCXCIII CONTENTS OF VOL. I. PAGE INTRODUCTION xi A JOURNEY FROM THIS WORLD TO THE NEXT, ETC. ETC. INTRODUCTION 1 BOOK I. CHAPTER I. _The author dies, meets with Mercury, and is by him conducted to the stage which sets out for the other world_ 4 CHAPTER II. _In which the author first refutes some idle opinions concerning spirits, and then the passengers relate their several deaths_ 7 CHAPTER III. _The adventures we met with in the City of Diseases_ 12 CHAPTER IV. _Discourses on the road, and a description of the palace of Death_ 20 CHAPTER V. _The travellers proceed on their journey, and meet several spirits who are coming into the flesh_ 23 CHAPTER VI. _An account of the wheel of fortune, with a method of preparing a spirit for this world_ 28 CHAPTER VII. _The proceedings of judge Minos at the gate of Elysium_ 31 CHAPTER VIII. _The adventures which the author met on his first entrance into Elysium_ 37 CHAPTER IX. _More adventures in Elysium_ 40 CHAPTER X.