[405e] Letter from.
[406a] Words partially obliterated.
[406b] Swift wrote by mistake, “On Europe Britain’s safety lies”; the slip was pointed out by Hawkesworth. All the verse is written in the MSS. as prose.
[406c] “Them” (MS.).
[406d] See Wyons Queen Anne, ii. 366–7.
[407a] A Proposal for Correcting, Improving, and Ascertaining the English Tongue, in a Letter to the Most Honourable Robert, Earl of Oxford, 1712.
[407b] “Help him to draw up the representation” (omitting every other letter).
[407d] Robert Benson.
[408a] The Story of the St. Albans Ghost, 1712.