The Poems of Jonathan Swift

-Answer to Lines from May Fair

[1] NOW FIRST PUBLISHED

[Footnote 1: Some ladies, among whom were Mrs. Worsley and Mrs. Finch, to the latter of whom Swift addressed, under the name of Ardelia, the preceding poem, appear to have written verses to him from May Fair, offering him such temptations as that fashionable locality supplied to detain him from the country and its pleasures: and thus he replies.--Forster.]

[Footnote 1: There is some playful allusion in this last stanza, not now decipherable.--Forster.]