Should aprons put on, With a free and an accepted MASON. Great kings, dukes, and lords, Our myft'ry to put a good grace on, To hear themselves nam'd Antiquity's pride We have on our fide, And it maketh men juft in their station; To be understood By a free and an accepted MASON. Then join hand in hand, To each other firm stand: Let's be merry and put a bright face on. So noble a toaft, As a free and an acepted MASON. POSTSCRIPT. Mr. FAULKNER, Our lodge unanimously defire you will give their fincere refpects to your ingenious DRAPER, to whose pen we, as well as the reft of the nation, own ourfelves obliged. If he be not already a Free Mafon, he fhall be welcome to be our deputyguardian. Your humble fervant, *Tfrif eht Tfugua Nilbud. THALESTRIS. The The LAST WILL of Dr. SWIFT, Dean of St. Patrick's in Dublin *. IN the name of God, Amen. I Fonathan Swift, Doctor in Divinity, and Dean of the Cathedral church of St. Patrick, Dublin, being at this prefent of found mind, although weak in body, do here make my laft will and teftament, hereby revocking all my former wills. Imprimis, I bequeath my foul to God, (in hum ble hopes of his mercy through Jesus Christ), and my body to the earth. And I defire, that my body may be in the great ifle of the faid cathedral, on the fouth fide, under the pillar next to the mo nument of Primate Narciffus Marfht, three days after my decease, as privately as poffible, and at twelve o'clock at night; and that a black marble of feet fquare, and feven feet from the ground, fixed to the wall, may be erected, with the following in 66 Swift's will, like all his other writings, is drawn up in his own peculiar manner. Even in fo ferious a compofition he cannot h-ip indulging himself, in leaving legacies that carry with them an air of raillery and jeft. He difpofes of his three hats, (his beft, his fecond beft, and his third beft beaver) with an ironical fo.emnity, that renders the bequests ridiculous. He bequeaths" to Mr. John Grattan a filver-box," &c. [below, p. 311.] But his legacy to Mr. Robert Grattan is ftill more extraordinary. Item, I bequeath to the Reve"rend Mr. Robert Grattan," &c. [below, p. 310.] These are fo many laft impreffions of his turn, and way of thinking: and I dare fay, the perfons thus diftinguished, look upon thefe inftances, as affectionate memorials of his friendship, and as tokens of the jocofe manner in which he had treated them during his lifetime. Orrery,~ See his character, p. 281. Cc 2 feription fcription in large letters, deeply cut, and strongly gilded t. HIC DEPOSITVM EST CORPVS JONATHAN SWIFT, S. T. P. Et IMITARE, SI POTERIS, Item, I give and bequeath to my executors all my worldly fubftance, of what nature or kind foever, (excepting fuch part thereof as is herein after particularly devifed), for the following uses and purpofes: that is to fay, to the intent that they, or the furvivors or furvivor of them, his executors, or adminiftrators, as foon as conveniently may be after my death, fhall turn it all into ready money, and lay out the fame in purchasing lands of inheritance in fee fimple, fituate in any province of Ireland, except Connaught, but as near to the city of Dublin as conveniently can be found, and not incumbered with, or fubject to any leafes for lives renewable, or any terms for years longer than thirty-one. And I defire, that a yearly annuity of twenty pounds Sterling, out of the annual profits of fuch lands, when purchased, and out of the yearly income of my faid fortune devised to my executors as aforefaid, until fuch purchase shall be made, fhall be paid to Rabecca Dingley of the city His monumental infcription, written by himself, may confirm to you the obfervation which I formerly made [in vol. 7. p. 114], that he was not an elegant writer of Latin. An harfher epitaph has feldom been compofed. It is fcarce intelligible; and if intelligible, is a proof how difficult a task it is, even for the greatest genius, to draw his own character, or to represent himself and his actions in a proper manner to pofte ity, Orrery. of of Dublin, spinster, during her life, by two equal half-yearly payments, on the feafts of All Saints, and St. Philip and St. Jacob; the first payment to be made on fuch of the faid feafts as fhall happen next after my death. And that the refidue of the yearly profits of the faid lands, when purchased, and, until fuch purchase be made, the refidue of the yearly income and intereft of my faid fortune, devifed as aforefaid to my executors, fhall be laid out in purchafing a piece of land, fituate near St. Steven's hofpital, or, if it cannot be there had, fomewhere in or near the city of Dublin, large enough for the purposes herein after-mentioned, and in building thereon an hospital large enough for the reception of as many idiots and lunatics as the annual income of the faid lands and worldly fubftance fhall be fufficient to maintain. And I defire, that the faid hofpital may be called St. Patrick's Hofpital, and may be built in fuch a manner, that another building may be added unto it, in cafe the endowment thereof should be enlarged; fo that the additional building may make the whole edifice regular and complete. And my further will and defire is, that, when the said hofpital fhall be built, the whole yearly income of the said lands and estate fhall, for ever after, be laid out in providing victuals, cloathing, medicines, attendance, and all other neceffaries for fuch idiots and lunatics as fhall be received into the fame; and in repairing and enlarging the building from time to time, as there may be occafion. And, if a fufficient number of idiots and lunatics cannot readily be found, I defire that incurables may be taken into the said hofpital to supply such deficiency; but that no perfon fhall be admitted into it, that labours under any infectious disease: and that all fuch idiots, lunatics, and incurables, as fhall be received into the faid hofpital, fhall conftantly live and refide therein, as well in the night as in the day; and that the falaries of agents, receivers, of-ficers,, Cc 3 ficers, fervants, and attendants, to be emoloyed in the bulinefs of the faid hopital, fhall not in the whole exceed one fifth part of the clear yearly income or revenue thereof. And I further defire, that my executors, the fervivors or fervivor of them, or the heirs of fuch, shall not have power to demise any part of the faid lands fo to be purchased as a forefaid, but with confent of the Lord Primate, the Lord High Chancellor, the Lord Archbishop of Dublin, the Dean of Chrift-church, the Dean of St. Patrick's, the phyfician to the ftate, and the furgeon-general, all for the time being, or the greater part of them, under their hands in writing; and that no leases of any part of the faid lands fhall ever be made, other than leafes for years not ex ceeding thirty-one, in poffeffion, and not in reverfion or remainder, and not difpunishable of wafte, whereon fhall be referved the best and most improved rents that can reasonably and moderately, without racking the tenants, be gotten for the fame, without fine. Provided always, and it is my will and earnest defire, that no leafe of any part of the faid lands, fo to be purchased as aforefaid, fhall ever be made to, or in truft for any person any way concerned in the execution of this truft, or to, or in truft for any person any way related or allied, either by confanguinity or affinity, to any of the perfons who fhall at that time be concerned in the execution of this truft; and that if any leases shall happen to be made contrary to my intention above expreffed, the fame fhall be utterly void and of no effect. And I further defire, until the charter herein after-mentioned be obtained, my executors, or the furvivors or furvivor of them, his heirs, executors, or adminiftrators, fhall not act in the execution of this truft, but with the confent and approbation of the said seven additional trustees, or the greater part of them, under their hands in writing; and fhall, with fuch confent and appro |