-A Grub Street Elegy
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ON THE SUPPOSED DEATH OF PARTRIDGE THE ALMANACK MAKER.[1]
[Footnote 1: For details of the humorous persecution of this impostor by Swift, see "Prose Works," vol. i, pp. 298 et seq.--W. E. B.]
[Footnote 2: Partridge was a cobbler.--Swift.]
[Footnote 3: See his Almanack.--Swift.]
[Footnote 4: Allusion to the crescent-shaped ornament of gold or silver which distinguished the wearer as a senator.
"Appositam nigrae lunam subtexit alutae."--Juvenal, Sat. vii, 192; and Martial, i, 49, "Lunata nusquam pellis."--W. E. B.]
[Footnote 5: Luciani Opera, xi, 17.]
[Footnote 6:
"ipse tibi iam brachia contrahit ardens
Scorpios, et coeli iusta plus parte reliquit."
VIRGIL., Georg., i, 34.]
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