[147a] Vide Don Quixote.—S.
[147b] Swift borrowed this from the customs of Moronia—Fool’s Land—in Joseph Hall’s Mundus Alter et Idem.
[148a] The Presbyterians objected to church-music, and had no organs in their meeting-houses.
[148b] Opposed to the decoration of church walls.
[148c] Baptism by immersion.
[148d] Preaching.
[151a] “This wicked Proteus shall escape the chain.”—Francis’s Horace.
[151b] Lib. de Aëre, Locis, et Aquis.—S.
[152a] Charles II., by the Act of Uniformity, which drove two thousand ministers of religion, including some of the most devout, in one day out of the Church of England.
[152b] “Including Scaliger’s,” is Swift’s note in the margin. The sixth sense was the “common sense” which united and conveyed to the mind as one whole the information brought in by the other five. Common sense did not originally mean the kind of sense common among the people generally. A person wanting in common sense was one whose brain did not properly combine impressions brought into it by the eye, the ear, &c.