[311a] “This happens to be the only single line written upon the margin of any of his journals. By some accident there was a margin about as broad as the back of a razor, and therefore he made this use of it” (Deane Swift).
[311b] Lieutenant-Colonel Barton, of Colonel Kane’s regiment.
[312a] A nickname for the High Church party.
[312c] “From this pleasantry of my Lord Oxford, the appellative Martinus Scriblerus took its rise” (Deane Swift).
[312d] Cf. the Imitation of the Sixth Satire of the Second Book of Horace, 1714, where Swift says that, during their drives together, Harley would
“gravely try to read the lines
Writ underneath the country signs.”