The Poems of Jonathan Swift

-On Gaulstown House

THE SEAT OF GEORGE ROCHFORT, ESQ.

BY DR. DELANY

[Footnote 1: Daughter of the Earl of Drogheda, and married to George Rochfort, Esq.--F.]

The Country Life

PART OF A SUMMER SPENT AT GAULSTOWN HOUSE,

THE SEAT OF GEORGE ROCHFORT, ESQ.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE

[Footnote 1: Dr. Swift.--F.]

[Footnote 2: For his philosophy and his exquisite verse, rather than for his irreligion, which never seems to have affected Swift.--W. E. B.]

[Footnote 3: The butler.--F.]

[Footnote 4: A Tory news-writer. See "Prose Works," vii, p. 347.--W. E. B.]

[Footnote 5: Charles XII, killed by a musket ball, when besieging a "petty fortress" in Norway in the winter of 1718.--W. E. B.]

[Footnote 6: Mr. Clement Barry, called, in the notes appended to "Gulliveriana," p. 12, chief favourite and governor of Gaulstown.--W. E. B.]