, that such pilgrims and travellers may be exposed
to. Of these he knows a great number ready instructed in most
countries; but the whole scheme of this matter he is to draw up at
large and communicate to his friend.
Footnotes:
{50} The number of livings in England.--Pate.
{51a} "Distinguished, new, told by no other tongue."--Horace.
{51b} "Reading prefaces, &c."--Swift's note in the margin.
{56a} Plutarch.--Swift's note in the margin.
{56b} Xenophon.--Swift's note in the margin, marked, in future, S.
{56c} Spleen.--Horace.
{59} "But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labour lies."
- Dryden's "Virgil"
{60} "That the old may withdraw into safe ease."
{61} In his subsequent apology for "The Tale of a Tub," Swift wrote
of these machines that, "In the original manuscript there was a
description of a fourth, which those who had the papers in their
power blotted out, as having something in it of satire that I
suppose they thought was too particular; and therefore they were
forced to change it to the number three, whence some have
endeavoured to squeeze out a dangerous meaning that was never
thought on.
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