P.S. When this paper was going to the press, the printer brought me two more Observators,[15] wholly taken up in my Examiner upon lying, which I was at the pains to read; and they are just such an answer, as the two others I have mentioned.  This is all I have to say on that matter.

[Footnote 1:  No. 15 in the reprint. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 2:  Ovid, “Metamorphoses,” viii. 203-5.

“My boy, take care
To wing your course along the middle air: 
If low, the surges wet your flagging plumes;
If high, the sun the melting wax consumes.” 
S. CROXALL.
[T.S.]]

[Footnote 3:  See the pamphlets:  “The Thoughts of an Honest Tory,” 1710 [by Bp.  Hoadly]; “Faults on both Sides ... by way of answer to ‘The Thoughts of an Honest Tory,’” 1710 [by a Mr. Clements]; and “Faults in the Fault-Finder:  or, a Specimen of Errors in ...  ’Faults on Both Sides,’” 1710; etc., etc. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 4:  “The Review” was edited by Daniel Defoe.  He commenced it on February 19th, 1703/4, as “A Weekly Review of the Affairs of France”; but about this time it had lost much of its early spring and verve.  It was discontinued after June 11th, 1713.  Gay thought, speaking of “The Review,” that Defoe was “a lively instance of those wits, who, as an ingenious author says, will endure but one skimming” ("Present State of Wit"). [T.S.]]

[Footnote 5:  “The Observator” was founded by John Tutchin.  The first number was issued April 1st, 1702, and it appeared, with some intervals, until July, 1712, though Tutchin himself died in 1707.  For his partisanship for Monmouth poor Tutchin came under the anger of Judge Jeffreys, who sentenced him to several floggings.  Pope’s couplet in the “Dunciad” has immortalized him: 

  “Earless on high stood unabashed De Foe,
  And Tutchin flagrant from the scourge below.”
  [T.S.]]

[Footnote 6:  This was the Rev. Charles Leslie, whose periodical, “The Rehearsal,” was avowedly Jacobite.  The paper appeared from August 5th, 1704, until March 26th, 1709.  In 1708-9 all the numbers were republished in four volumes folio, with the title:  “A View of the Times, their Principles and Practices:  in the First [Second, etc.] Volume of the Rehearsals,” and under the pseudonym “Philalethes.”  Later he engaged in a controversy with Bishop Hoadly.  See also note on p. 354, vol. v.

Of Swift’s use of the term “Nonjuror,” “The Medley” (June 18th, 1711, No. 38) made the following remarks:  “If he speaks of him with relation to his party, there can be nothing so inconsistent as a Whig and a Nonjuror:  and if he talks of him merely as an author, all the authors in the world are Nonjurors, but the ingenious divine who writ ‘The Tale of a Tub’ ... for he is the first man who introduced those figures of rhetoric we call swearing and cursing in print.” [T.S.]]

[Footnote 7:  “The Observator” for November 8th, 1710 (vol. ix., No. 85), was filled with more remarks on the fourteenth “Examiner.”  Presumably the issue for November 4th, which is not accessible, commenced the attack. [T.S.]]