 be the shepherd of a lamb—I forget whether this maxim be taken notice of in Ovid's Art of Love; if not, his precepts are imperfect."


He assured me that, on this reply, his sight and reason forsook him, for a time, and only returned to enable him to view the hag, as she then appeared to him, with the greater horror, and to possess him with a rage that fell but little short of madness.
"What would I have given, at that instant, cried he out, to have exchanged her sex, into a dozen armed men!"
and then concluded the sentence with this expression—
"But I could not exert such resentment against her, as she deserved, because she was in my power."

He did every thing he could to find out the place of my banishment, but could not discover it—He did not know of my being moved from Bath till after I had been sent away, or he would have

employed some trusty person or other, to have watched me to the place of my destination—The surmises were various, upon this occasion; some said I was to be carried over to France, and forced into a convent; some, that I was to be locked up in Mr. W—'s house, in London; and others, that I was to be betrayed into a private mad-house, and confined there for life.
During the uncertainty of all these several reports, Captain L— received an account of his father's illness, and immediately repaired to London, to attend on him. His filial duty claimed his first regard, and the exercise of that virtue served to restrain his impatience, and ballance his anxiety on my account, for several months, while Sir Richard L— lingered before his death.

Captain L—, now become Sir Thomas L—, with a large patrimony, being at length released from any further restraint upon his time and actions, began to turn his whole thoughts towards the unhappiness of my situation, and considered himself bound, not as a knight-errant merely, but as a man of honour, to rescue me from that distress which he had been the innocent cause of, through the treachery of one person, and the too hasty sentence and unwarrantable severity of another.—He returned immediately to Bath, in order to get what information he could, about me; and hearing that my dear mother had retired to a village in Flintshire, took the resolution of going to wait upon her there.

As soon as he had informed her who he was, she began to reproach him in
