"_Pity is akin to love_" (Vol. i., p. 248.).--Though a long time has
elapsed since the birthplace of these words was queried, no answer has, I
think, appeared in your columns. Will you then allow me to refer H. to
Southern's _Oroonoko_, Act II. Sc. 1.?
"_Blandford._ Alas! I pity you.
_Oroonoko._ Do pity me;
_Pity's akin to love_, and every thought
Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.
I would be pity'd here."