But when you were an Outcast?Heaven is just; Your piety would not miss its due reward; The little Orphan then would be your succour, And do good service, though she knew it not.

And Elphinstone is a kind-hearted man, but orphans are not exactly his linenot what he'd call congenial to him.

The best Plays of this Kind are 'The Orphan', 'Venice Preserved', 'Alexander the Great', 'Theodosius', 'All for Love', 'OEdipus', 'Oroonoko', 'Othello', &c. 'King Lear' is an admirable Tragedy of the same Kind, as 'Shakespear' wrote it; but as it is reformed according to the chymerical Notion of Poetical Justice, in my humble Opinion it has lost half its Beauty.

Her eldest orphan was a son; For, children she had three; She called him, though a little one, Her hope for days to be.

The whole property to which the fair orphan became heir by the death of her mother did not amount to fifty pounds, and amongst the property