Swift, J: Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick

Excerpt from The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, Vol. 14: Including the Whole of His Posthumous Pieces, Letters, &C

Ready. Ithink I will lend him word that I never faw my Lord Treafurer in my life: I am fure I induf'criou¿y avoided the name of any great per fon when 1 law him, for fear of his reporting it in Ireland. And this recommendation mufi be a fecret too, for fear the Duke of Bolton {hould know it, and think it was too mean. I never read fo d - 'd a letter in my life A little would make me fend it over to you. -i mul't [end you a pattern, the firfi place I caft my eyes on, I will not pick and chufe. [in this place (meaning the Exchange in London) which is the compendium of old Troynovant, as that is of the whole bufy world, I got futh a furfeit, that I grew fick of mankind, and refolved, for ever after, to bury myfelf in the fhady retreat of You mufi: know that London has been called by fome Troy novant, or N ew-troy.-will you-have any more Yes, one little bit for Stella, becaufe {he'll be fond of1t. [this wondrous Theatre (meaning London) was no more to me than a defa1t, and I ihould leis complain of folitude' m a Connaught ihipwreck, or even the great Bog of Allen. A little (crap for Mrs Marget and then I have done. [their royal Fanum, wherein the Idol Pecuma is daily worihipped, feemed to me to be jufi: like a hive of bees working and labouring unde1 huge weights of cares.) Fanum is a tem ple, but he means the Exchange and Pecunia is money: So now Mrs Marget wlll under¿tand her part. One more paragraph, and I - Wcll.

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