You should try your graving tools
On this odious group of fools;
Draw the beasts as I describe them: 
Form their features while I gibe them;
Draw them like; for I assure you,
You will need no car’catura;
Draw them so that we may trace
All the soul in every face. 
  Keeper, I must now retire,
You have done what I desire: 
But I feel my spirits spent
With the noise, the sight, the scent. 
“Pray, be patient; you shall find
Half the best are still behind! 
You have hardly seen a score;
I can show two hundred more.” 
Keeper, I have seen enough. 
Taking then a pinch of snuff,
I concluded, looking round them,
“May their god, the devil, confound them!"[23]

[Footnote 1:  St. Andrew’s Church, close to the site of the Parliament House.]

[Footnote 2:  On a scrap of paper, containing the memorials respecting the
Dean’s family, there occur the following lines, apparently the rough
draught of the passage in the text: 
  “Making good that proverb odd,
  Near the church and far from God,
  Against the church direct is placed,
  Like it both in head and waist.”—­Scott.]

[Footnote 3:  From the answer of the demoniac that the devils which possessed him were Legion.—­St. Mark, v, 9.—­W.  E. B.]

[Footnote 4:  Sir Thomas Prendergast, a prominent opponent of the clergy, and a servile supporter of the government.  See the verses on “Noisy Tom,” ante, p. 260.]

[Footnote 5:  “Di quibus imperium est animarum umbraeque silentes Sit mihi fas audita loqui.”—­VIRG., Aen., vi, 264.]

[Footnote 6:  “Vestibulum ante ipsum primisque in faucibus Orci Luctus et ultrices posuere cubilia Curae;”—­273.]

[Footnote 7:”——­Discordia demens Vipereum crinem vittis innexa cruentis.”—­281.]

[Footnote 8:  “Corripit his subita trepidus, ——­strictamque aciem venientibus offert.”—­290.]

[Footnote 9:  “Et ni docta comes tenues sine corpore vitas.”—­VIRG., Aen., vi, 291.]

[Footnote 10:  “Et centumgeminus Briareus.”—­287.]

[Footnote 11:  The Right Honourable Walter Carey.  He was secretary to the Duke of Dorset when lord-lieutenant of Ireland.  The Duke of Dorset came to Ireland in 1731.]

[Footnote 12:  “Two hundred” written by Swift in the margin.—­Forster.]

[Footnote 13:  John Waller, Esq., member for the borough of Dongaile.  He was grandson to Sir Hardress Waller, one of the regicide judges, and who concurred with them in passing sentence on Charles I. This Sir Hardressmarried the daughter and co-heir of John Dowdal of Limerick, in Ireland, by which alliance he became so connected with the country, that after the rebellion was over, the family made it their residence.—­Scott.]