Poor we! cadets of Heaven, not worth her care,
Take up at best with lumber and the leavings of a fare.
[15]: Mistress Harris's petition.
[16]:
You know I honour the cloth; I design to be a parson's wife....
And over and above, that I may have your Excellencies' letter
With an order for the chaplain aforesaid, or instead of him a better.
[17]: Par le Conte du Tonneau auprès du clergé, et par la Prophétie de Windsor auprès de la reine.
[18]: Lettres du Drapier, Gulliver, Rhapsodie sur la poésie, Proposition modeste, divers pamphlets sur l'Irlande.
[19]: I find myself disposed every year or rather every month to be more angry and revengeful; and my rage is so ignoble that it descends even to resent the folly and baseness of the enslaved people among whom I live.
[20]: If you continue to treat me as you do, you will not be made uneasy by me long.... I am sure I could have born the rack much better than those killing, killing words of yours.... O, that you may have but so much regard for me left, that this complaint may touch your soul with pity!
[21]: It is time for me to have done with the world.... And so I would,... and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
[22]: I shall be like that tree. I shall die at the top.