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THE
WORKS
O F
Dr JONATHAN SWIFT,
DEAN of ST PATRICK'S, DUBLIN.
VOLUME VII.
EDINBURGH:
Printed for JoHN DONADLSON, Corner of Arundel Street, Strand, London.
MDCCLXXIV.
ΠΑΛΟΝΙ
CONTENTS of VOL. VII.
HE political
Page
The art of Pored by the company of uphold-
Reasons offered
ers, against part of the bill for viewing and ex-
amining drugs and medicines
The petition of the colliers, cooks, cookmaids,
blacksmiths, &c. against catoptrical victual-
lers
It cannot rain but it pours; or, London ftrow-
ed with rarities
By Mr. POPE and Mr. GAY.
Dr. Robert Norris's narrative of the ftrange
and deplorable frenzy of Mr. John Dennis
An account of the poisoning of Edmund Curll,
with a copy of his last will and testament
A further account of the condition of Edmund
Curll
15
19
23
28
40
47
A relation of the circumcifion of Edmund
God's revenge against punning
A wonderful prophecy of the Mohocks
The country-poft
A true and faithful narrative of what paffed in
London; or, A rumour of the day of judge-
ment
73
N. B. Whatever verfes are marked with an afterisk
prefixed, are not Dr. Swift's.
A criticism on Swift's mifcellanies in verfe
107
Cadenus and Vaneffa
123
Baucis and Philemon
157
A defcription of a city-fhower. In imitation
of Virgil's Georgics
163
A defcription of the morning.
165
Horace, epift. 7. book 1. imitated, and addreff-
ed to the Earl of Oxford, in the year 1713 166,
Horace, lib. 2. fat. 6. part of it imitated
173
*The happy life of a country-parson. In imi-
tation of Martial
177
* A tale of Chaucer, lately found in an old
manuscript
178
*The alley. An imitation of Spencer.
*The capon's tale. To a lady who fathered
her lampoons upon her acquaintance
179.
181
Verfes written in a lady's ivory table-book
182
Mrs. Harris's petition to their Excellencies the
Lord Juftices of Ireland
184
A ballad, to the tune of the Cutpurfe
189
Vanbrugh's houfe, built from the ruins of
Whitehall
The hiftory of Vanbrugh's house
194
The virtues of Sid Hamet the magician's rod 196
Atlas; or, The minifter of state. To the Lord
Treasurer Oxford
199
The
190
The defcription of a falamander. Out of Phi-
ny's natural hiftory, lib. 1o. c. 68. and lib.
29. C. 4.
The Elephant; or, The parliament-man.
Written many years fince. Taken from
Coke's inftitutes
An elegy on the fuppofed death of Partridge,
the almanack-maker
The epitaph
* Verfes to be prefixed before Bernard Lintot's
new mifcellany
To Mr. John Moore, author of the celebrat-
ed worm-powder
* Verfes occafioned by an &c. at the end of Mr.
D'Urfy's name, in the title to one of his
plays
200
203
204
207
ib.-
209
210
* Prologue defigned for Mr. D'Urfy's laft play 213
Prologue to the Three hours after marriage 214-
*Sandy's ghoft; or, A proper new ballad on
the new Ovid's Metamorphofis, to be tranf-
lated by perfons of quality.
* Umbra
* Duke upon Duke. An excellent new ballad.
To the tune of Chevy-chace
2167
* Fragment of a fatire
* Macer
* Sylvia; a fragment
* Artemifia
* Phryne
a beauty
On Mrs. Biddy Floyd; or, The receipt to form
218.
219
224
226
227
228
229
230
231
233
234
ib.
Stella's
Apollo outwitted. To the Hon. Mrs. Finch,
afterwards Countefs of Winchelfea, under
her name of Ardelia
*Impromptu. To Lady Winchelsea. Occa-
fioned by four fatirical verfes on women-wits
in The Rape of the Lock
* Epigram on Bishop Hough
