Footnotes

Of all the girls that e'er was seen,

There 's none so fine as Nelly.

Swift: Ballad on Miss Nelly Bennet.

Wherever God erects a house of prayer,

The Devil always builds a chapel there;[286:1]

And 't will be found, upon examination,

The latter has the largest congregation.

The True-Born Englishman. Part i. Line 1.

Great families of yesterday we show,

And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

The True-Born Englishman. Part i. Line 1.