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THE

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OF

Dr: Jonathan Swift,

Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin.

VOLUME III.

LONDON,

Printed for C. BATHURST, in Fleetstreet.

MDCELX.

NIVERSARIHOVN

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HE Papers that compose the first of these volumes were printed about eighteen years ago, to which there are now added two or three small tracts; and the verses are transferred into the fourth volume apart, with the addition of fuch others as we fince have written. The second and third will confift of several fmall treatises in profe, in which a friend or two is concerned with us.

Having both of us been extremely ill treated by fome bookfellers, especially one Edmund Curll, it was our opinion that the beft method we could take for juflifying ourselves, would be to publish whatever loose papers, in profe and verse, we have formerly written; not only fuch as have already ftolen into the world (very much to our regret, and perhaps very little to our credit) but fuch, as in any probability hereafter may run the fame. fate; having been obtained from us by the importunity, and divulged by the indifcretion of friends, although reftrained by promises, which few of them are ever known to observe, and often think they make us a compliment in breaking.

But the confequences have been ftill worfe: We have been entitled, and have had our names prefixed at length, to whole volumes of mean productions, equally offenfive to good manners and good fenfe, which we never faw nor heard of till they appeared in print.

For a forgery in fetting a falfe name to a writing, which may prejudice another's fortune, the law punishes. the offender with the lofs of his ears; but has inflicted VOL. III.

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