[78b] Swift’s first contribution to the Examiner (No. 13) is dated Nov. 2, 1710.
[78c] Seduced, induced. Dryden (Spanish Friar) has “To debauch a king to break his laws.”
[80b] “To make this intelligible, it is necessary to observe, that the words ‘this fortnight’, in the preceding sentence, were first written in what he calls their little language, and afterwards scratched out and written plain. It must be confessed this little language, which passed current between Swift and Stella, has occasioned infinite trouble in the revisal of these papers” (Deane Swift).
[80c] Trim. An attack upon the liberties of this corporation is among the political offences of Wharton’s Lieutenancy of Ireland set forth in Swift’s Short Character of the Earl of Wharton.
[80d] Apologies.
[80e] “A Description of the Morning,” in No. 9 of the Tatler.
[81b] William Palliser (died 1726).