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.">[