Volume the First: Diplomatic DisplayOxfordBodleian Library, MS.Don.e.7.
89Though misfortunes my footsteps may ever attendI hope I shall never have need of a Freindas an innocent Heart I will ever preserveand will never from Virtue's dear
boundaries swerve.
of 50£, she was turned out of doors by herinhuman Benefactors. Such a transition toone who did not poſseſs so noble & exalteda mind as Eliza, would have been Death, butshe, happy in the conscious knowledge ofher own Excellence, amused herself, as shesate beneath a tree with making & singingthe following Lines.
Song.
Having amused herself with some hours, with this song & her own pleasing
