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one would an infected person1; and look'd upon him as one who had been contriving the invasion and ruin of his country. When he walked thro' the streets, he was frequently pointed at, and treated with abusive language by the shopkeepers and mechanics, and the meanest of the people flung dirt and filth at him as he passed. this the Dean got over by degrees. The indignities he receiv'd from the populace he regarded, probably, not without a secret indignation in his breast, but outwardly, with a superior contempt; and the prejudice and animosities of his Chapter he conquer'd to such a degree, that when presiding over them, "he looked," as La Orrery says in a high stile, "like Jupiter in the synod of the gods," governing them all by his nod. Tho' the stroke which the Dean had received from the quarrel between the ministers was a very severe one, and was extreamely aggravated by the death of the Queen soon after, yet it did not render him wholy unactive. He wrote a sketch of his History of the Four Last Years of her Reign during his stay in Berkshire; just warm from the occasion, and with all the heat of party upon him, and gave it a fuller form in the first year after his return to Ireland [1715]. Immediately after this was finisht, he began his Travels of Gulliver [1716], and carried that work on, at intervals, for 3 or 4 years. I am apt to imagine, too, that in this period [1720] of six years after his return to Ireland, he might employ himself a good deal in considering the distresses of his native country, and in laying in part of that fund of knowledge of its wants and interests which he made appear at times, in his writings, through a series of almost twenty years after it. Dr Swift's acquiring so absolute a power over his Chapter, when they had been so violently prejudiced against him, is a strong proof of his great knowledge and dexterity in the management of affairs; but what is more strange, this so much hated and despis'd Dean at his first coming to settle in Dublin, in a few years after, became the highest favorite and idol' of the people in general. He saw their poverty, their misery, and sufferings; he consider'd their causes, and how they might be alleviated or remedied; and his compassion for them, still the more animated, perhaps, by his hatred to the men in power, made him enter on that great task of becoming their patron and defender in his writings.

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In the beginning of the year '21, he published a treatise to recommend the use of their own manufactures only to his countrymen, for which the printer was so ill us'd by Lord Chief Justice Whitshed, and Whitshed himself so much lasht and persecuted in songs and epigrams by the

1 Lives of the Poets, v. 87.

2 Mr Swift, p. 182.

5 Waters; Mr. Swift, p. 184. 4 Waters, Mr. Swift, p. 184.

Dean. About 3 years after, he defeated the imposition of Wood's adulterated coin on the people of Ireland' by his Drapier Letters; which gave so much offence to the government, that a reward of 300l. was offered by proclamation for the discovery of the author of the Fourth Letter; and a new printer that he had employed was on the brink of being try'd before Whitshed, but escaped by the Grand Jury's not finding the bill.

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"These Letters united the whole nation (to use Mr. Hawksworth's words) in the praises of the Dean, filled every street with his effigies, and every voice with acclamations." Swift, on this occasion, redoubled his strokes on the Chief Justice, who had used the Grand Jury (as he represents it) illegally, on their not finding the bill; and, in spite of all opposition and persecutions, continued his writing for the good of people, as long as he was capable of writing anything that required thought and pains.

The Da had been almost twelve years since the Queen's death in Ireland, without making a single visit to his friends in England, when he gave them one in the summer of '26, and repeated it in that of '27. The writers on his life and actions have not given the reason for these two journeys, but I think they may be easily accounted for.

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About 10 years before the first of them, the Dean had been privately married to the Stella of his poems, Mrs Johnson-a most agreeable and sensible lady. Her constitution began to break in '248, and she died in the beginning of '28. 'Tis probable, therefore, that he might make these two journeys in this interval, partly to avoid the miseries he must have felt in seeing her in so languishing a condition, and partly on a scheme which was then set on foot for an exchange of his Deanery in Ireland for some preferment in England. This continued a good while in bis thoughts, and was much desired by some of his old friends on this side the water, and particularly by Mr Pope. I have good reason to think, that the latter had engaged a lady' of particular influence at Court, about that time, in his favor; and it is confirm'd by several of the letters 10 that passed between Swift and Pope in this period.

It appears, from the same, that this thought was kept up (at least by his friends) for several years on; but all their invitations could never prevail upon him to cross the water after the year 27. He continu'd on in Ireland from that time to his death sometimes writing little pieces of hu

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mour, sometimes even idle things, for his diversion and sometimes more useful ones for the ; service or direction of his countrymen. Among these was his share in the paper call'd The Intelligencer [1728]; his Modest Proposal the year after [1729]; his pieces, relating to the taking off the Test Act, in '31 and '32; his Advice to the Freemen of Dublin, in '33; and his Proposal for giving Badges to the Beggars in Dublin, in '37. It has been mentioned, toward the beginning of this account, that the Dean had been troubled with a coldness of stomach, and a giddiness, before he was twenty. Some time after, he began also to be very subject to deafness. Both these latter ailments grew upon him, and affected his spirits very much. On the loss of his Stella, this gloomy cast of his thoughts was greatly encreas'd: but the cloud did not obtain entirely over his mind till after he was '70. From that unhappy period, he was lost to the world, to his friends, and to himself. He died in a very easy, and almost imperceptible manner, toward the close of the 78th year of his age [1745].

[Here the MS. breaks off, with the following memorandum in pencil: "Not finished: Writings and Character wanting. See Hints and Materials for these two parts among Papers annexed."]

VAN LENNEP'S "HEER VAN CULEMBURG."

I am desirous of calling your attention to a circumstance relating to a Dutch work, Nederlandsche Legenden, by Van Lennep, who, both as a poet and a novelist, enjoys a deserved reputation in Holland.

In the first canto of the legend "Jacoba en Bertha," I find a song introduced entitled "Heer van Culemburg," which resembles so closely the celebrated song "Young Lochinvar" in Marmion, that one may be considered as the translation of the other, with such alterations as are necessary to adapt it to another locality.

I enclose a copy of this Dutch song, so that you may place before your readers the whole of it, or such extracts from it as you may deem advisable :

"DE HEER VAN CULEMBURG.

Lied van Bertha.

"O! Culemburgs Heer kwam gereden met spoed, Geen paard aan de Lek als het zijne zoo goed; Geen wapenen droeg hij dan 't heupzwaard alleen: En zonder gevolg kwam hij voorwaart gereên; Zoo trouw aan zijn liefste en zoo kloek in 't geweer, Was nimmer een Ridder als Culemburgs Heer. "Hem stuitte geen hoogte, geen diepe moeras: En vond hij geen brug, hij zwom over den plas;

Maar toch, toen hij afsteeg aan 't Benthemsch kasteel, Daar vond hij de Bruid reeds gedoscht in 't fluweel: Een lafbek in 't minnen, een knaap zonder eer, Verloofd aan de liefste van Culemburgs Heer. "Het Benthemsch kasteel kwam bij binnen getreên, En vond er verwanten en speelnoots bijeen; De Vader der Bruid sloeg de hand aan 't gevest, En sprak: (want de Bruîgom hield zwijgen het best) Zeg! brengt gij hier krijg en verschijnt ge in 't geweer?

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Of komt gij als speelnoot, o Culemburgs Heer?'
"Lang vrijdde ik uw dochter, 'k heb vrucht'loos gehoopt,
Zwelt liefde als een duinwel, een duinwel verloopt;
En nu kom ik hier en mijn hart is weêr vrij,
Eén dans will ik leiden, één beker voor mij.
Uw dochter moog' fraai zijn, ik ken er wel meer
Die graag zouden huwen aan Culemburgs Heer.'
"De Bruid schonk den kroes in en kuste den rand,
Hij leegde de kelk en hij wierp ze uit de hand.
Zij bloosde en zag neder: zij zuchtte en zag op:
Een lagchje op de lippen: in de oogen een drop:
Hij nam (spijt de moeder) haan handje zoo teêr,
Nu ééns in de rondte,' sprak Culemburgs Heer.
"Zoo minzaam een blik, een gestalte zoo stout,
Was nimmer in feestzaal noch leger anschouwd.
De moeder keek spijtig, de vatter verstoord,
De Bruîgom stond suf-maar hij sprak niet een woord.
De speelnootjens lispten, 'Het voegde veel meer
Dat nichtje de Bruid waar' van Culemburgs Heer.'
"Eén drukje in de hand en één woord in het oor,
Zij naakten de zaaldeur: de klepper stond voor
Toen zwaaide hij 't meisje gezwind op het ros,
Sprong zelf in den zadel en draafde in het bosch ;-
'Mij 't Bruidje! gereden door heide en door meer,
Wie 't lust, moge ons volgen,' riep Culemburgs Heer.
"Toen stegen de Benthems en Gemens te paard,

En volgden het Bruidje met lans en met zwaard.
Men joeg en men rende door heide en door wond.
Maar nooit werd de Bruid meer te Benthem aan-
schouwd;

Zoo koen in zijn liefde en zoo kloek in 't geweer,
Was nimmer een Ridder als Culemburgs Heer."

Among the notes appended to this legend there is one expressly referring to this song, which, nevertheless, makes no allusion to Walter Scott, or to "Young Lochinvar."

The note, however, purports to explain the origin of the story, and is to the following effect:

"The beautiful Bertha seems to have a spirit of fore

sight, since the occurrence with the Lord of Culemburg took place certainly ten years later than the time which my legend embraces.

"The story is this: John, the 4th of that name, the 11th Lord of Culemberg, had for his first wife the daughter of the Lord of Gemen, by whom he had no children.

"After the death of this wife he was invited by his brother-in-law, the then Lord of Gemen, who was betrothed to Aleide van Gutterswijck, sister of the Count of Benthem, to come to his wedding feast.

"The Lord of Culemberg came and proceeded to salute the intended bride by way of courtesy, upon which the young lady said,

He was 70 in the year 1787; his will is dated and that was his last writing, as well as his last will. 2 Oct. 19, 1745, Mr. Swift, p. 375.