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Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745

"A Tale of a Tub"


{111a} The galleries over the piazzas in the old Royal Exchange
were formerly filled with shops, kept chiefly by women.
Illustrations of this feature in London life are to be found in
Dekker's "Shoemaker's Holiday," and other plays.
{111b} The contraction of the word mobile to mob first appeared in
the time of Charles the Second.
{112} Jack the Bald, Calvin, from calvus, bald; Jack with a
Lanthorn, professing inward lights, Quakers; Dutch Jack, Jack of
Leyden, Anabaptists; French Hugh, the Huguenots; Tom the Beggar, the
Gueuses of Flanders; Knocking Jack of the North, John Knox of
Scotland. AEolists pretenders to inspiration.
{116} Herodotus, 1. 4.--S.
{119a} Bombast von Hohenheim--Paracelsus.
{119b} Fanatical preachers of rebellion.
{120} Pausanias, 1. 8.--S.
{122} The Quakers allowed women to preach.
{123} The worshippers of wind or air found their evil spirits in
the chameleon, by which it was eaten, and the windmill, Moulin-a-
vent, by whose four hands it was beaten.
{126a} Henry IV. of France.
{126b} Ravaillac, who stabbed Henry IV.


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