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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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I had the Honor to be intimately acquainted 

 with her, and was never bO sensioly toucued with 

 any one's death as with hers, neither did 1 ever 

 know a person of either sex with more virtues or 

 fewer intirmitys, the only one she had (which was 

 the neglect of her own atf") arising only from the 

 goodness ol' her temper. 



I write not this at all as a secret, but am con- 

 tent your Town should know what an excellent 

 person they have had among them. 



If you visited her any short time before her 

 death, or know any particulars about it, as of the 

 state of her mind, or the nature of her disease, I 

 beg you will be so obliging as to inform me. If or 

 the letter we received from her poor maid is so 

 imperfect by her grief for the loss of so good a 

 Lady, that it only tells the time of her death, &c. 

 Your letter may be directed to me at the Earl of 

 Dartmouth's House at Whitehall. 



I hope you will forgive this trouble for the 

 occasion of it, and give some allowances to so 

 great a loss not only to me but to all who have 

 any regard for every perfection that Human Na- 

 ture can possess ; and if in any way I can serve or 

 oblige you I shall be glad of an opportunity of 

 obeying your commands. 

 I am, S', 



Your most hble Servant, 



Jonathan Swift. 



ILLUSTRATIONS OF MACAULAT. 



The following broadsides I found in the copy of 

 2^he History of Passive Obedieneey in which were 

 transcribed the two sets of verses communicated 

 by me to " N. & Q." of the 23rd August. J. B. 



" The New Oath Examined, and found Guilty." 



" Since Oaths are Solemn, Serious Things, 

 The best Security to Kings ; 

 And since we'ave all Allegiance swore 



To J as King, or Successor; 



I can't imagine, liow we may 



Swear that or Fealty away. 



Nought sure but Death or Resignation 



Can tree us from that Obligation. 



All Oaths are vain, both those and these, 



If we may break 'em, as we please. 



And did 1 fairly swallow both, 



Who'de give a Farthiug for my Oath ? 



If you affirm, as many do. 

 They both consistent are, and true. 



I ask, Can you Two Masters serve. 

 And never from your Duty swerve ? 

 Or can you True Allegiance bear 

 To Two at once, and not forswear? 

 What's due to J if W have, 



And J have what you fF gave ? 



It's plain, you're false to both, and shou'd 

 Or take no Oaths, or make 'em good, 

 Which here you cannot, if you wou'd. _, 

 Nor will these Oaths, as some contend, 

 To your own private Meaning bend. 



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You swear to each as to a King, 

 And ought to mean the self same Thing. 

 And 'tis Allegiance Full and True 

 Is sworn to both, to both as due. 



To say, fhe People have a Right"] 

 Kings to depose, as they see fit, 

 Is Popery, or as bad as it. 

 There is no Law, or Charter for't : 

 Kings can't be try'd in any Court. 

 Srads/iaiv's High Court had but the Name 

 Of Justice, and was Bradslmiv's Shame. 



But that's by all condemn'd 



Or he that dares such Presidents plead, ") 

 Deserves, like him, to lose his Head, > 

 And hang for't, or alive or dead. J 



Now to condemn the King untry'd, 

 Seems something worse than Bradshaw did. 

 'Tis English Priviledge to be heard, 

 Before the Judge can give Awaid. 



I know, some Conquest plead, and say. 

 The King was driv'n and /orc'd away. 

 Convention though pleads Abdication, 

 Because tinforc'd he left the Nation. 

 Hard 'tis these Things to reconcile : 

 He chose to leave us 'gainst his ff^ill. 

 These Pleas and Proofs are opposite. 

 And cannot both be True and Right : 

 A Sign their Cause is desperate, 

 They'd something say, but know not what. 

 Their Non-agreement is enough 

 To shew each Plea of theirs wants proof. 



Now as for Conquest, Why shou'd we 

 Make Slaves of People that are Free ? 

 Why shou'd we make so much ado 

 'Bout what Prince ne'er pretended to ? 

 He from Convention took the Crown : 

 Convention plac'd him in the Throne : 

 Convention gave him all his Pow'r : 

 Convention made the Oaths you swore. 

 And therefore if to him we'de swear, 

 'Tis as their High Commissioner. 

 And if they have no Right to chuse. 

 We may Allegiance refuse. 

 We may and ought to keep 't entire 

 For Lawful King, and Lawful Heir. 



If People say, they have such Right : 

 They ought to shew how they came by't. 

 If People made their Sov'reign Lord, 

 They ought to shew it by Record. 

 The Law o th' Land says no such Thing : 

 By Law Succession makes the King. ' 

 They can't plead Scripture, if they wou'd ; 

 The Scripture says, All Pow'r's from God. 

 God says nimself. By me Kings Reign ; 

 'Tis he doth Higher Powders Ordain, 

 'Tis he doth make them all Supream ; 

 The People's Choice is People s Dream. 



Nor can you prove by Law of Nature, 

 That Princes are the People's Creature. 

 'Tis plain, the People never gave 

 What they ne're had, nor cou'd they have ; 

 I mean, the Power, which Princes bear : " 

 If People had it, make't appear, 

 And tell us who, and when, and where. 

 Our King has Pow'r o're Subjects Lives, 

 By Law he takes away, or gives. 

 The Sword the People never bore. 

 They ne're o're their own Lives had Pow'r. 

 Self-Murder never was ailow'd 

 By Law of Nature, or of God. 

 Wherefore the Pow'r which Kings have now, 

 The People never cou'd bestow. 



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