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away crying his own grief, cursing his own fate, foreboding madness, and forsaken by fortune, and even hope.

I don't know anything more melancholy than the letter to Temple, in which, after having broke from his bondage, the poor wretch crouches piteously towards his cage again, and deprecates his master's "The anger. He asks for testimonials for orders. particulars required of me are what relate to morals and learning; and the reasons of quitting your honor's family that is, whether the last was occasioned by any ill action. They are left entirely to your honor's mercy, though in the first I think I cannot reproach myself for anything further than for infirmities. This is all I dare at present beg from your honor, under circumstances of life not worth your regard: what is left me to wish (next to the health and prosperity of your honor and family) is that Heaven would one day allow me the opportunity of leaving my acknowledgments at your feet. I beg my most humble duty and service be presented to my ladies, your honor's lady and sister."-Can prostration fall deeper? could a slave bow lower? 1

1 "He continued in Sir William Temple's house till the death of that great man." ·Anecdotes of the Family of Swift, by the DEAN. "It has since pleased God to take this great and good person to himself."- Preface to Temple's Works.

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On all public occasions, Swift speaks of Sir William in the same But the reader will better understand how acutely he remembered the indignities he suffered in his household, from the subjoined extracts from the " Journal to Stella:

"I called at Mr. Secretary the other day, to see what the dailed him on Sunday: I made him a very proper speech; told him I observed he was much out of temper, that I did not expect he would tell me the cause, but would be glad to see he was in better; and one thing I warned him of - never to appear cold to me, for I would not be treated like a schoolboy; that I had felt too much of

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Twenty years afterwards Bishop Kennet describing the same man, says, "Dr. Swift came into the coffeehouse and had a bow from everybody but me. When I came to the ante-chamber [at Court] to wait before prayers, Dr. Swift was the principal man of talk and business. He was soliciting the Earl of Arran to speak to his brother, the Duke of Ormond, to get a place for a clergyman. He was promising Mr. Thorold to undertake with my Lord Treasurer, that he should obtain a salary of £200 per annum as member of the English church at Rotterdam. He stopped F. Gwynne, Esq., going in to the Queen with the red bag, and told him aloud, he had something to say to him from my Lord Treasurer. He took out his gold watch, and telling the time of day, complained that it was very late. A gentleman said he was too fast. 'How can I help it,' says the Doctor, if the cour tiers give me a watch that won't go right?' Then he instructed a young nobleman, that the best poet in England was Mr. Pope (a Papist), who had begun a

that in my life already" (meaning Sir William Temple,) etc. etc. Journal to Stella.

"I am thinking what a veneration we used to have for Sir William Temple because he might have been Secretary of State at fifty; and here is a young fellow hardly thirty in that employment." - Ibid.

"The Secretary is as easy with me as Mr. Addison was. I have often thought what a splutter Sir William Temple makes about being Secretary of State."- Ibid.

"Lord Treasurer has had an ugly fit of the rheumatism, but is now quite well. I was playing at one-and-thirty with him and his family the other night. He gave us all twelvepence apiece to begin with; it put me in mind of Sir William Temple.” — Ibid.

"I thought I saw Jack Temple [nephew to Sir William] and his wife pass by me to-day in their coach: but I took no notice of them. I am glad I have wholly shaken off that family."- S. to S., Sept. 1710.