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Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745

"A Tale of a Tub"


{127a} Swift's contemporary, Louis XIV. of France.
{127b} Western civet. Paracelsus was said to have endeavoured to
extract a perfume from human excrement that might become as
fashionable as civet from the cat. It was called zibeta
occidentalis, the back being, according to Paracelsus, the western
part of the body.
{129} Ep. Fam. vii. 10, to Trebatius, who, as the next sentence in
the letter shows, had not gone into England.
{135} A lawyer's coach-hire.--S.
{136} The College of Physicians.
{140} The bad critics.
{142} A name under which Thomas Vaughan wrote.
{145a} Revelations xxii. 11: "He which is filthy, let him be
filthy still;" "phrase of the will," being Scripture phrase, of
either Testament, applied to every occasion, and often in the most
unbecoming manner.
{145b} He did not kneel when he received the Sacrament.
{146a} His inward lights.
{146b} Predestination.
{147a} Vide Don Quixote.--S.
{147b} Swift borrowed this from the customs of Moronia--Fool's
Land--in Joseph Hall's Mundus Alter et Idem.


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