rehearsal will seldom be necessary. It is not likely that Milton
required any passage to be so much repeated as that his daughter
could learn it; nor likely that he desired the initial lines to be
read at all; nor that the daughter, weary of the drudgery of
pronouncing unideal sounds, would voluntarily commit them to memory.

To this gentlewoman Addison made a present, and promised some
establishment, but died soon after. Queen Caroline sent her fifty
guineas. She had seven sons and three daughters; but none of them
had any children, except her son Caleb and her daughter Elizabeth.
Caleb went to Fort St. George, in the East Indies, and had two sons,
of whom nothing now is known. Elizabeth married Thomas Foster, a
weaver in Spitalfields, and had seven children, who all died. She
kept a petty grocer's or chandler's shop, first at Holloway, and
afterwards in Cock Lane, near Shoreditch Church. She knew little of
her grandfather, and that little was not good. She told of his
harshness to his daughters, and his refusal to have them taught to
write; and, in opposition to other accounts, represented him as
delicate, though temperate, in his diet.

In 1750, April 5th, Comus was played for her benefit. She had so
little acquaintance with diversion or gaiety, that she did not know
what was intended when a benefit was offered her. The profits of
the night were only one hundred and thirty pounds, though Dr. Newton
brought a large contribution; and twenty pounds were given by
Tonson, a man who is to be praised as often as he is named. Of this
sum one hundred pounds were placed in the stocks, after some debate
between her and her husband in whose name it should be entered; and
the rest augmented their little stock, with which they removed to
Islington. This was the greatest benefaction that "Paradise Lost"