The Poems of Jonathan Swift

-The Progress of Marriage

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[Footnote 1: Collated with Swift's original MS. in my possession, dated January, 1721-2.--Forster.]

[Footnote 2:

"A rich divine began to woo,"

"A grave divine resolved to woo,"

are Swift's successive changes of this line.--Forster.]

[Footnote 3: "Philippa, daughter to an Earl," is the original text, but he changed it on changing the lady's name to Jane.--Forster.]

[Footnote 4: Scott prints "her."--Forster.]

[Footnote 5: Swift has writ in the margin:

[Footnote 6: For this fable, see Ovid, "Metam.," lib. ix.--W. E. B.]

[Footnote 7: So named from a very curious cross or pillar which was erected in it in 1687 by John, Earl of Melfort, Secretary of State to James the Second, in honour of the King's second wife, Mary Beatrice of Modena, having conceived after bathing there.--Collinson's "History of Somersetshire."--W. E. B.]

[Footnote 8: "Meanwhile stands cluckling at the brim," the first draft.--Forster.]

[Footnote 9: "The best of heirs" in first draft.--Forster.]