The Poems of Jonathan Swift

-To Charles Mordaunt

Earl of Peterborough[1]

[Footnote 1: Who in the year 1705 took Barcelona, and in the winter following with only 280 horse and 900 foot enterprized and accomplished the conquest of Valentia.--Pope.

Lord Peterborough seems to have been equally famous for his skill in cookery. See note to above Satire, Pope's Works, edit. Elwin and Courthope, iii, 298.--W. E. B.]

[Footnote 2: See Voltaire's "History of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden." "He left the name at which the world grew pale,

To point a moral or adorn a tale." JOHNSON, Vanity of Human Wishes.]