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LENOX

NEW

THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

DR. JONATHAN SWIFT.

VOL. III.

CONTAINING HIS

MISCELLANEOUS PIECES

FROM 1730 TO 1739.

Perhaps I may allow the Dean
Had too much satire in his vein,

And seem'd determin'd not to starve it,
Because no age could more deserve it:
Yet malice never was his aim;

He lash'd the vice, but spar'd the name-----
Vice, if it e'er can be abash'd,

Must be or ridicul'd or lash'd----

As for his Works in verse or prose,
I own myself no judge of those;
Nor can I tell what critics thought 'em ;
But this I know, all people bought 'em,
As with a moral view design'd,
To please and to reform mankind;
And if he often miss'd his aim,

The world must own it, to their shame,
The praise is his, and theirs the blame.

VERSES ON THE DEATH OF SWIFT.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR J. BELL, BOOKSELLER TO HIS
ROYAL HIGHNESS

THE PRINCE OF WALES.