A Tale of a Tub

by Jonathan Swift

[112] Jack the Bald, Calvin, from calvus, bald; Jack with a Lanthorn, professing inward lights, Quakers; Dutch Jack, Jack of Leyden, Anabaptists; French Hugh, the Huguenots; Tom the Beggar, the Gueuses of Flanders; Knocking Jack of the North, John Knox of Scotland. Æolists pretenders to inspiration.

[116] Herodotus, l. 4.—S.

[119a] Bombast von Hohenheim—Paracelsus.

[119b] Fanatical preachers of rebellion.

[120] Pausanias, l. 8.—S.

[122] The Quakers allowed women to preach.

[123] The worshippers of wind or air found their evil spirits in the chameleon, by which it was eaten, and the windmill, Moulin-à-vent, by whose four hands it was beaten.

[126a] Henry IV. of France.

[126b] Ravaillac, who stabbed Henry IV.

[127a] Swift’s contemporary, Louis XIV. of France.