[Footnote 4:  This appears to refer to “The Tatler,” No. 183 (June 10th, 1710), where Steele writes:  “The ridicule among us runs strong against laudable actions.  Nay, in the ordinary course of things, and the common regards of life, negligence of the public is an epidemic vice...  It were to be wished, that love of their country were the first principle of action in men of business.” [T.S.]]

[Footnote 5:  Virgil, “Aeneid,” ii. 521-2: 

  “’Tis not such aid or such defence as thine
  The time demands.”—–­R.  KENNEDY.
  [T.S.]]

[Footnote 6:  The paper in all probability was “The Medley,” No. 10 (December 4th), which was mainly devoted to a reply to Swift’s “calculation” as to the rewards of the Duke of Marlborough.  Scott thinks the answerer may have been Defoe, for in No. 114 (of vol. vii.) of his “Review of the State of the British Nation,” he has a passage evidently directed at Swift:  “I know another, that is an orator in the Latin, a walking index of books, has all the libraries in Europe in his head, from the Vatican at Rome, to the learned collection of Dr. Salmon at Fleet-Ditch; but at the same time, he is a cynic in behaviour, a fury in temper, impolite in conversation, abusive and scurrilous in language, and ungovernable in passion.  Is this to be learned?  Then may I be still illiterate.  I have been in my time, pretty well master of five languages, and have not lost them yet, though I write no bill over my door, or set Latin quotations in the front of the ‘Review.’  But, to my irreparable loss, I was bred but by halves; for my father, forgetting Juno’s royal academy, left the language of Billingsgate quite out of my education:  hence I am perfectly illiterate in the polite style of the street, and am not fit to converse with the porters and carmen of quality, who grace their diction with the beauties of calling names, and curse their neighbour with a bonne grace.” [T.S.]]

[Footnote 7:  “Eclogues,” ix. 30: 

“So may thy bees the poisonous yew forgo.” 
ARCHDN.  F. WRANGHAM.
[T.S.]]

[Footnote 8:  See No. 23, post. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 9:  See Swift’s account of the intrigues of the Duke of Marlborough and Lord Godolphin to secure Harley’s dismissal in his “Memoirs Relating to that Change” (vol. v., pp. 370-371 of present edition), and “Some Considerations” (vol. v., pp. 421-422, ibid.).]

[Footnote 10:  The “Bill for the Encouragement of Learning” was introduced in the House of Commons, January 11th, 1709/10, passed March 14th, and obtained royal assent April 5th, 1710.  There were several amendments, but the “Journals of the House of Commons” throw no light on their purport. [T.S.]]

[Footnote 11:  Anthony Collins (1676-1729), the deist, who wrote “A Discourse of Free-Thinking” (1713), which received a reply from Swift (see vol. iii., pp. 163-192 of present edition).  The most thorough reply, however, was made by Bentley, under the pen-name “Phileleutherus Lipsiensis.”  Collins’s controversies with Dr. Samuel Clarke were the outcome of the former’s thinking on Locke’s teaching. [T.S.]]