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# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 14/Letter: Swift to Pope - 24

DR. SWIFT TO MR POPE.
SEPT. 3, 1735.
THIS letter will be delivered to you by Faulkner the printer, who goes over on his private affairs. This is an answer to yours of two months ago, which complains of that profligate fellow Curll. I heartily wish you were what they call disaffected, as I am, I may say as David did, I have sinned greatly, but what have these sheep done? You have given no offence to the ministry, nor to the lords, nor commons, nor queen, nor the next in power. For you are a man of virtue, and therefore must abhor vice and all corruption, although your discretion holds the reins. "You need not fear any consequence in the commerce that has so long passed between us; although I never destroyed one of your letters. But my executors are men of honour and virtue, who have strict orders in my will to burn every letter left behind me." Neither did our letters contain any turns of wit, or fancy, or politicks, or satire, but mere innocent friendship; yet I am loth that any letters, from you and a very few other friends, should die before me; I believe we neither of us ever leaned our head upon our left hand to study what we should write next; yet we have held a constant intercourse from your youth and my middle age, and from your middle age it must be continued till my death, which my bad state of health makes me expect every month. I ​have the ambition, and it is very earnest as well as in haste, to have one epistle inscribed to me while I am alive, and you just in the time when wit and wisdom are in the height. I must once more repeat Cicero's desire to a friend; orna me. A month ago were sent me over by a friend of mine, the works of John Hughes, esq., they are in verse and prose. I never heard of the man in my life, yet I find your name as a subscriber too. He is too grave a poet for me, and I think among, the mediocribus in prose as well as verse. I have the honour to know Dr. Rundle; he is indeed worth all the rest you ever sent us, but that is saying nothing, for he answers your character; I have dined thrice in his company. He brought over a worthy clergyman of this kingdom as his chaplain, which was a very wise and popular action. His only fault is, that he drinks no wine, and I drink nothing else.
This kingdom is now absolutely starving, by the means of every oppression that can be inflicted on mankind — shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord. You advise me right, not to trouble myself about the world: but, oppression tortures me, and I cannot live without meat and drink, nor get either without money; and money is not to be had, except they will make me a bishop, or a judge, or a colonel, or a commissioner of the revenues.
Adieu.
# The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 14/Letter: Swift to Pope - 17

DR. SWIFT. TO MR. POPE.
OCT. 31, 1729.
YOU were so careful of sending me the Dunciad, that I have received five of them, and have pleased four friends. I am one of every body who approve every part of it, text and comment; but am one abstracted from every body, in the happiness of being recorded your friend, while wit, and humour, and politeness shall have any memorial among us. As for your octavo edition, we know nothing of it, for we have an octavo of our own, which has sold wonderfully, considering our poverty, and dulness the consequence of it.
I writ this post to lord Bolingbroke, and tell him in my letter, that with a great deal of loss for a frolick, I will fly as soon as build: I have neither years, nor spirits, nor money, nor patience for such amusements. The frolick is gone off, and I am only 100l. the poorer. But this kingdom is grown so excessively poor, that we wise men must think of nothing but getting a little ready money. It is thought there are not two hundred thousand pounds of species in the whole island; for we return thrice as much to ​our absentees, as we get by trade, and so are all inevitably undone; which I have been telling them in print these ten years, to as little purpose as if it came from the pulpit. And this is enough for Irish politicks, which I only mention, because it so nearly touches myself. I must repeat what I believe I have said before, that I pity you much more than Mrs. Pope. Such a parent and friend hourly declining before your eyes, is an object very unfit for your health, and duty, and tender disposition, and I pray God it may not affect you too much. I am as much satisfied that your additional 100l. per annum is for life as if it were for ever. You have enough to leave your friends, I would not have them glad to be rid of you; and I shall take care that none but my enemies will be glad to get rid of me. You have embroiled me with lord B——— about the figure of living, and the pleasure of giving. I am under the necessity of some little paltry figure in the station I am; but I make it as little as possible. As to the other part you are base, because I thought myself as great a giver as ever was of my ability; and yet in proportion you exceed, and have kept it till now a secret even from me, when I wondered how you were able to live with your whole little revenue.
Adieu.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Dewhurst, Capt. Robert Henry

​DEWHURST, Capt. Robert Henry, Captain, late 4th Hussars; m. 1883, Hon. Bertha, sister of 2nd Baron Churston. Res.: Greenmount, Clonsilla, Co. Dublin.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Dickie, Thomas Wallace

​DICKIE, Thomas Wallace, Barr. at-Law, 1909; B.A. (T.C.D.), 1908. Captain, 4th R. Dub. Fus. (Brevet Major, 1918). Resident Magistrate for Co. Leitrim, 1919; son of the late Thomas Coulter Dickie, B.A., Solicitor, of Omagh, Co. Tyrone. Res.: Killukin, Carrick-on-Shannon.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Devlin, David

​DEVLIN, David, B.A., Mod. (T.C.D.), M.C.; served in European War, 1914-19, with Royal Highlanders, Black Watch (T.F.), and Royal Dublin Fusiliers; Lt. (Special Res.); Dept. of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland, 1913-22; Private Secretary to Rt. Hon. S. M. Archdale, D.L., M.P., and Assistant Principal, Ministry of Agriculture, Northern Ireland, from 1922; b. 1894; m. 1920, Alison Evelyn, dau. of G. L. Wilson, J.P., of Dundee and Newport, Fife. Res.: Belfast.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Dick, Capt. Quintin

​DICK, Capt. Quintin, D.L., Co. Wicklow (High Sheriff, 1898), late Capt., Derbyshire Yeo., and Royal Antrim Rifles; second and only surviving son of late Rev. Quintin Dick Hume, of Beechy Park, Co. Carlow, and nephew of Rt. Hon. Wm. Wentworth Fitzwilliam Hume-Dick, of Humewood, Co. Wicklow, P.C, M.P.; b. 1847; m. 1908, Lorna, dau. of Major Ernest Chas. Penn Curzon; assumed by royal licence name of Dick in lieu of Hume, 1892. Res.: 12 Grosvenor Crescent, London, S.W.1.; Carantrila, Co. Galway. Bachelors', Carlton, and Arthm-'s Clubs, London.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Dickson, James

​DICKSON, James, D.L., J.P., Co. Tyrone; M.P. for Dungannon, 1880-85; eldest son of late Rt. Hon. Thos. Alex. Dickson, P.C, M.P., J.P., of Dungannon; b. 1859; m. 1884, Ella, youngest dau. of late Wm. Tillie, H.M.'s Lieut., Londonderry. Res.: Miltown House, Dungannon Union, Ulster Preform and Tyrone County Clubs.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Dickson, James Hill

​DICKSON, James Hill, Member of Senate of Northern Ireland, 1921; J.P. for Co. Down: Member of Down C.C. 12 years, Newtownards Board of Guardians, 25 years, D.C., 22 years; Member of Royal Ulster Agricultural Council and Council of Agriculture for Ireland; Chairman, Down Technical Committee; Vice-Chairman, Board of Governors, County Asylum; b . 1863; m. 1889, Jane Ellena, dau. of late Rev. Dr. McCreery, of Killyleagh. Res.: Ardmore, Ballygowan, Co. Down.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Devenish-Meares, John Frederick

​DEVENISH-MEARES, John Frederick, B.A. (T.C.D.), J.P., Co. Fermanagh; Barrister Middle Temple, 1892, and King's Inns, 1897; eldest son of late Joseph Leycester Devenish-Meares, J.P., of Meares Court, Co. Westmeath; b. 1866; m. 1900, Harriet F., only dau. of Richd. Arthur Handcock. Res.: Meares Court, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath; Lack, Kesh, Co. Fermanagh.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Devitt, Rev. Matthew

​DEVITT, Rev. Matthew, S.J.; b. at Nenagh, Co. Tippsrary. Educ.: Clongowes; Rector of Belvedere, 1890; Rector of Clongowes, 1891-1900, and again, 1907; now Professor of Moral Theology and Canon Law at Milltown Park, Dublin; Vice-President of Kildare Archaeological Society. Res.: Milltown Park, Dublin.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Devlin, Joseph

​DEVLIN, Joseph M.P. for Co. Antrim and for West Belfast, Northern Parliament, Ireland, 1921); was M.P. for North Kilkenny, 1902-1906, and for West Belfast, 1906-18, and for Falls Div. of Belfast 1918-22: b. 1872. Res.: 3 College Square, North, Belfast; 39 Upper O'Connell Street, Dublin. Club: National, Berry Street, Belfast.
# Thom's Irish Who's Who/Dickson, Thomas

​DICKSON, Thomas. Educ. at Royal School, Dungannon, and Broughton High School, Manchester. Sports: golf (scratch), lawn tennis, croquet, and cricket. Records: won Irish golf (close) championship, 1893; runner-up, 1894; won North of Ireland lawn tennis championship, 1888, and croquet championship, 1914; Irish gold medal (croquet) at Carrickmines, 1920, and the County of Dublin croquet championship, 1919 and 1920; has captained Banbridge cricket club for many years; son of late Right Hon. Thomas A. Dickson, P.C., M.P.; b. 1861; m. 1884, Agnes, dau. of John Tulloch, of Dumbarton, Scotland. Res.: Bellfield, Banbridge Co. Down. Club: Union, Belfast.
# The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Liber Secundus/Fable 14

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Translated from French by William Caxton and first published in 1484. Perry Index 27.
¶ The xiiij fable is of the wulf and of the dede mans hede
Any one ben whiche haue grete worship and glorye / but noo prudence / ne noo Wysedom they haue in them wherof Esope reherceth suche a fable / Of a wulf which found a mans hede / the whiche he torned vp so doune with his foote / And sayd / Ha a how fayr hast thow be and playsaunt / And now thow hast in the neyther wytte / ne beaute / & yet thow arte withoute voys and withoute ony thought / and therfore men ought not only to behold the beautte and fayrenesse of the body / but only the goodnes of the courage / For somtyme men gyuen glorye and worship to some / whiche haue not deseruyd to haue hit /
# The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Liber Secundus/Fable 16

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Translated from French by William Caxton and first published in 1484. Perry Index 498. An annotated version of this text is available.
¶ The xvj fable is of the mule and of the flye.
Omme maken gretemenaces / whiche haue no myghte / ¶ Wherof Esope reherceth suche a fable / ¶ Of a carter / whiche ladde a Charyot or carte / whiche a Mule drewe forthe / And by cause the Mule wente not fast ynough / the flye sayd to the Mule / Ha a payllart Mule / why goost thow not faster / I shalle soo egrely pryke the / that I shalle make the go lyghtely / ¶ And the Mule answered to the flye / God kepe and preserue the mone for the wolues / For I haue ne grete drede ne fere of the / But I drede and doubte sore my mayster / whiche is vpon me / whiche constrayneth me to fulfylle his wylle / ¶ And more I oughte to drede and doubte hym more / than the / whiche arte nought / and of no valewe ne myght / ¶ And thus men ought not to gette by ne doubte them / whiche haue no myght ne that ben of no valewe
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# The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Liber Secundus/Fable 3

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Translated from French by William Caxton and first published in 1484.
¶ The thyrde fable is of the theef and of the dogge
Hanne that one gyueth ony thyng / men ought wel to take hede / to what ende hit is gyuen / wherof Esope reherceth suche a fable / of a theef which came on a nyȝt within a manns hows for to haue robbed hym / And the good mans dogge beganne to bark at hym / And thenne the theef casted at hym a pyece of brede / And the dogge sayd to hym / thow castest not this brede for no good wylle / but only to the ende / that I hold my pees / to thende that thow mayst robbe my mayster / and therfore hit were not good for me / that for a morsell of brede / I shold lese my lyf / wherfore goo fro hens / or els I shalle anone awake my mayster and alle his meyne / The dogge theynne beganne to bark / and the theef beganne to flee / And thus by couetyse many one hue oftyme receyued grete yeftes / the whiche haue been cause of theyr dethe and to lese theyre heedes / ​¶ Wherfore hit is good to consydere and loke wel / to what entencion the yeft in gyuen / to thende that none may be betrayd thurgh yeftes / ne that by ony yeftes none maketh some trayson ageynst his mayster or lord
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# The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Liber Secundus/Fable 13

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Translated from French by William Caxton and first published in 1484. Perry Index 426.
¶ The xiij fable is of the foxe and of the storke
How oughtest not to doo to other that whiche thow woldest not that men shold doo to the / wherof Esope reherceth to vs suche a fable / Of a foxe whiche conueyed a storke to souper / And the foxe put the mete vpon a trauncher / the whiche mete the storke myght not ete / wherof she tooke & had grete displaysaunce / & wente & departed oute of the ​foxes hows al hungry and wente geyne to her lodgys / and by cause that the foxe had thus begyled her / she bythoughte in her self / how she myght begyle the Foxe / For as men saye / it is meryte to begyle the begylers / wherfore the storke prayd the foxe to come and soupe with her / and put his mete within a glas / And whanne the foxe wold haue eten / he myght not come ther by / but only he lycked the glas / by cause he cowde not reche to the mete with his mouthe / And thenne he knewe wel that he was deceyued / And thenne the storke sayd to hym / Take of suche goodes as thow gauest to me / And the poure foxe ryght shameful departed fro thens / And with the staf whiche he had made he was bete And therfore he that begyleth other / is oftyme begyled hym self /
# The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Liber Secundus/Fable 17

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Translated from French by William Caxton and first published in 1484. Perry Index 521.
¶ The xvij fable is of the ante and the flye
O make boost and auauntynge is but vayne glorye and folye / wherof Esope recyteth suche a fable / Of the ante or formyce and of the flye / whiche stryued to gyder / for to wete whiche was the most noble of them bothe / & the flye sayd to the formyce / Come hyder formyce / wylt thow compare thy self to me that dwelle in the kynges places and palays / and ete and drynke at theyr table / And also I kysse bothe kynge and quene / and the most fayre maydens / and thow poure and myschaunt beest thow arte euer within the erthe / And the formyce ansuerd to the flye / Now knowe I wel thy vanyte and folye / ¶ For thow auauntest the of that wherof thou sholest desprayse the /
For fro alle places where as thow goost or flyest / thow arte hated chaced and put oute / and lyuest in grete daunger / for assone as the wynter shalle come thow shalt deye / And I shal abyde on lyue alone within my chamber or hole / where as I drynke and ete at my playsyr / For ​the wynter shalle not forgyue to the thy mysdede / but he shalle slee the / ¶ And thus he that wylle mocque or despreyse somme other / he ougt fyrst to loke and behold on hym self wel / For men fayn comynly / who that beholdeth in the glas / well he seeth hym self /  ¶ And who seeth hym self / wel he knoweth hym self / And who that knowith hym self / lytel he preyseth hym self / ¶ And who that preyseth hym self lytyll / he is ful wyse and sage.
# The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Liber Secundus/Fable 18

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Translated from French by William Caxton and first published in 1484. Perry Index 474.
¶ The xviij fable is of the wulf / of the foxe / and of the ape
E that ones falleth in to somme euylle faytte or dede / he shalle euer lyue with deshonour and in suspecion / of the peple / ¶ And how be it that by aduenture he purposed to doo somme prouffitable thynge to somme other / yet he shold not be trusted ne byleued / wherof Esope reherceth to vs suche a fable / Of a wulf whiche maade the foxe to be cyted before the Ape / ¶ And the wulf sayd that the foxe was but a theef and a payllart and a knaue of poure folke / And the foxe sayd that he lyed / and that he was a good and trewe man / And that he dyde moche good /
¶ And thenne the Ape whiche was sette as a Juge / gaf suche a sentence / and sayd to the wulf / Come hyther / thow hast not lost al that whche thow demaundest / ¶ And thow Foxe I beleue wel that thow hast vsurped and robbed som thynge / howe be it / that thow denyest hit in Justyce / But for as moche that pees may be bytwexe yow bothe / ye shalle parte to gyder ​your good / to thende / that none of yow haue no hole parte / For he that is wonte and acustomed to robbe and gnawe / with grete payne he may absteyne hym self fro hit / For a begyler wylle euer begyle other / ¶ And by cause that the ape felte them bothe gulty and suspycious made theyr dyfference to be acorded / and parted half by half / For they that ben customed to doo ony frawde or falshede / shall euer lyue ryȝte heuyly and in suspycon
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# The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Liber Secundus/Fable 19

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Translated from French by William Caxton and first published in 1484. Perry Index 293.
¶ The xix fable is of the man and of the wesel
En ought wel to loke and behold the courage & thought of hym / whiche dothe good / and the ende / wherfor he dothe hit / wherof Esope reherceth suche a fable / Of a man whiche tooke a wesell / the whiche chaced after the rattes wythynne his hows / ¶ And after whanne he had taken her / he wold haue kylled her / ¶ And whanne the poure Weselle sawe the wrathe and furour of her mayster / she cryed to hym / mercy / sayenge thus / My lord I requyre and praye the / that thow wylt pardonne to me / and that thow wylt reward me of the grete seruyse whiche I haue done to the / For euer I haue chaced the rats oute of thy hows /  ¶ And the man sayd to her / thow dydest not that for the loue of me / but only thow hast done it for to fylle thy bely For yf thow haddest done it for the loue of me / I shold haue pardonned to the / ¶ And by cause that thow dydest not for to serue me / but for to lette and adōmage me / For that the rattes myght not ete / thou barest ​it awey / And soo bycause / that thow arte wexed fatte of myne owne brede / thow must rendre and geue to me alle the fatnesse / whiche thou hast conquered and goten here / For he that robbeth shall be robbed / Juxta illud / pellatores pillabuntur / For hit suffyseth not to doo wel / but men must haue good wylle and good entencion for to do hit / For an almesse that is done for vayne glorye / is not merited / but dismeryted / wherfore I shal not pardonne the / but incontynent and withoute taryenge thow shalt deye / For by cause that thow hast deseruyd no mercy / thow shalt now be putte to dethe
# The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Liber Secundus/Fable 15

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Translated from French by William Caxton and first published in 1484. Perry Index 472.
¶ The xv fable is of the Jaye and of the pecok
One ought to were and putte on hym the gowne of other / wherof Esope reherceth to vs suche a fable Of a Jaye full of vayne glory / whiche tooke and putte on hym the fethers of a pecok / and with them he a[d]ourned/ and arayed hym self well / And whanne he was wel dressyd and arayed / by his oultrecuydaunce or ouerwenynge wold haue gone and conuersed amonge the pecoks / and despraysed alle his felawes / And whanne the pecokes knewe that he was not of theyr kynd / they anone plucked of alle his fethers / and smote and bete hym by suche maner / that no fethers abode vpon hym / And he fledde away al naked and bare /
¶ And thenne whanne his felawes sawe hym / they sayd to hym / What gallaunt come hyther / where ben thy fayre fethers / whiche thow haddest but late a gone / Hast thow no shame ne vergoyne to come in oure companye / And thenne alle the byrdes cam vpon hym / and smote & bete hym / sayenge thus to hym / ​yf thou haddest be content of thyn owne vestymentes thow hadest not come to this vylony / Ther for hit appereth that hit is not good to were another mans gowne / For suche weren fayre gownes and fayr gyrdels of gold that haue theyr teeth cold at home
# The fables of Aesop by William Caxton (Jacobs)/Vol. II/Liber Secundus/Fable 2

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Translated from French by William Caxton and first published in 1484. Perry Index 486.
¶ The second fable is of the Columbes or douues of the kyte and of the sperehawke
Ho that putte and submytteth hym self vnder the saue gard or protection of the euylle / thou oughtest to wete & knowe / that whan he asketh & demanded ayde & helpe / he geteth none / ¶ Wherof Esope reherceth to vs suche a fable / Of the douues whiche demaunded a sperehawke for to be theyr kynge / for to kepe them fro the kyte or mylan / And whanne the sperehawke was maade kynge ouer them / he beganne to deuoure them / the whiche columbes or douues sayd amonge them / that better it were to them to suffre of the kyte than to be vnder the subjection of the sperehawke / & to be martyred as we be / but therof we be wel worthy / For we oure self ben cause of this meschyef / And therfore whanne men done ony thyng / men ought well to loke and consydere thende of hit / For he dothe prudently and wysely whiche taketh good hede to the ende