2 But still to learn, and to obey (4) All. 
     The Law of God is his delight;
   In that employs himself all day, (5) A man must have
     And reads and thinks thereon at(4) some time to sleep; so
        night.(5) that I will change the
                                               verse thus: 
                                                “And thinks and dreams
                                                  thereon all night.”

3 For as a tree, whose spreading root (6) Look ye; you must
     By some prolific stream is fed, thin the boughs at the
   Produces (6) fair and timely fruit, top, or your fruit will
     And numerous boughs adorn its head:  be neither fair or
   Whose (7) very leaves, tho’ storms descend, timely. 
     In lively verdure still appear
                                               (7) Why, what other part
   Whose (7) very leaves, tho’ storms descend, of a tree appears in lively. 
     In lively verdure still appear; verdure, beside the
   Such blessings always shall attend leaves? 
     The man that does the Lord revere.  These very leaves on
                                                    which you penn’d
                                                  Your woeful stuff, may
          
                                             serve for squibs: 
                                                  Such blessings always
          
                                              shall attend
                                                  The madrigals of Dr.
          
                                              Gibbs.

4 Like chaff with every wind disperst:(1) (1) “Disp_u_rst,”
                  [rhyming with “curst”] Pronounce this like a
          
                                     blockhead.

6 And these to punishment may go. (2) (2) If they please.

["The above may serve for a tolerable specimen of Swift’s remarks.  The whole should be given, if it were possible to make them intelligible, without copying the version which is ridiculed; a labour for which our readers would scarcely thank us.  A few detached stanzas, however, with the Dean’s notes on them, shall be transcribed.”  Thus writes Scott; but I have added a great many more, which deserve reprinting, if only for their humour. [T.S.]]

DR GIBBS.  DR SWIFT.

II.  PSALM OF DAVID. (1) I do not believe
that ever kings entered
1 Why do the heathen nations rise, into plots and
And in mad tumults join! confederacies against
the reign of God
Almighty.
2 Confederate kings vain plots (1) devise
Against the Almighty’s reign: 
His Royal Title they deny, (2) What word does
Whom God appointed Christ; that plural number
belong to?
3 Let us reject their (2) laws, they cry,
Their binding force resist.