THE WORK S OF D. JONATHAN SWIFT. VOLUME II. CONTAINING His POETICAL WRITINGS. Dublin printed; and Edinburgh reprinted, For G. HAMILTON & J. BALFOUR, & L. HUNTER M, DCC, LII. TH HE firft collection of this Author's writings were published near thirty years ago, under the title of Mifcellanies in verfe and profe. Several years after, there appeared three volumes of mifcellanies, with a preface to the first, figned J SWIFT, and A. POPE: In thefe the verses, with great additions, were printed in a volume by themselves. But in each volume were mixed many poems and treatifes, writ by the Author's friends, which we have laid afide; our intention being only to publifh the works of one writer. The following poetical volume is enlarged by above a third part, which was never collected before, although fome of them were occafionally printed in London in fingle sheets. The reft were procured from the Author's friends, who, at their earnest request, were permitted to take copies. The following poems chiefly confift either of humour or fatire, and very often of both together. What merit they may have, we confefs ourselves to be no judges of in the least, but, out of due regard to a writer, from whofe works we hope to receive fome benefit, we cannot conceal what we have heard from feveral perfons of great judgment; that the Author never was known, either in verfe or profe, to borrow any thought, fimile, epithet, or particular manner of style; but, whatever he writ, whether good, bad, or indifferent, is an original in itself. Although |