[494a] “Her Majesty is all goodness and tenderness to her people and her Allies. She has now prorogued the best Parliament that ever assembled in her reign and respited her own glory, and the wishes, prayers, and wants of her people, only to give some of her Allies an opportunity to think of the returns they owe her, and try if there be such a thing as gratitude, justice, or humanity in Europe. The conduct of Her Majesty is without parallel. Never was so great a condescension made to the unreasonable clamours of an insolent faction now dwindled to the most contemptible circumstances.”—Examiner, Jan. 12–16, 1712[–13].
[494b] Mr. Collins’s Discourse of Freethinking, put into plain English by way of Abstract, for the use of the Poor, an ironical pamphlet on Arthur Collins’s Discourse of Freethinking, 1713.
[495a] The History of the Peace of Utrecht.
[495b] A line here has been erased. Forster imagined that he read, “Nite dear MD, drowsy drowsy dear.”
[496a] Hereford.
[496b] Very well.
[497a] Sentence obliterated. Forster professes to read, “Pay can oo walk oftener—oftener still?”
[497c] Dr. Bisse, translated from St. David’s.