The Poems of Jonathan Swift

-To Mr. Congreve

WRITTEN IN NOVEMBER, 1693

[Footnote 1: Where Swift lived with Sir William Temple, who had bought an estate near Farnham, called Compton Hall, which he afterwards named Moor Park. See "Prose Works," vol. xi, 378.--W. E. B.]

[Footnote 2: Dryden. See "The Rehearsal," and post, p. 43.--W. E. B.]

[Footnote 3: Will's coffee-house in Russell Street, Covent Garden, where the wits of that time used to assemble. See "The Tatler," No. I, and notes, edit. 1786.--W. E. B.]

[Footnote 4: To this resolution Swift always adhered; for of the infinite multitude of libellers who personally attacked him, there is not the name mentioned of any one of them throughout his works; and thus, together with their writings, have they been consigned to eternal oblivion.--S.]

[Footnote 5: This alludes to Sir William Temple, to whom he presently gives the name of Apollo.--W. E. B.]

[Footnote 6: Out of an Ode I writ, inscribed "The Poet." The rest of it is lost.--Swift.]

[Footnote 7: For an account of Congreve, see Leigh Hunt's edition of "Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar."--W. E. B.]