F. M. Middleton.


Minor Queries with Answers.

Cadenus and Vanessa.—What author is referred to in the lines in Swift's "Cadenus and Vanessa,"—

"He proves as sure as God's in Gloster,

That Moses was a grand impostor;

That all his miracles were tricks," &c.?

W. Fraser.

Tor-Mohun.

[These lines occur in the Dean's verses "On the Death of Dr. Swift," and refer to Thomas Woolston, the celebrated heterodox divine, who, as stated in a note quoted in Scott's edition, "for want of bread hath, in several treatises, in the most blasphemous manner, attempted to turn our Saviour's miracles in ridicule.">[