And since thy essence on my breath depends
Thus with a puff the whole delusion ends.


[Footnote 1: Dorothy, Sir William Temple's wife, a daughter of Sir Peter
Osborne. She was in some way related to Swift's mother, which led to
Temple taking Swift into his family. Dorothy died in January, 1695, at
Moor Park, aged 65, and was buried in Westminster Abbey. Sir William died
in January, 1698, "and with him," says Swift, "all that was good and
amiable among men." He was buried in Westminster Abbey by the side of his
wife.--_W. E. B._]

[Footnote 2: Swift's poetical name for Dorothy, Lady Temple.--_W. E. B._]

[Footnote 3: "--when swift Camilla scours the plain,
Flies o'er th'unbending corn, and skims along the main."
POPE, _Essay on Criticism_, 372-3.]

[Footnote 4: "Hic murus aheneus esto,
Nil conseire sibi, nulla pallescere culpa."
HOR., _Epist. 1_, I, 60.]



WRITTEN IN A LADY'S IVORY TABLE-BOOK, 1698


Peruse my leaves thro' ev'ry part,
And think thou seest my owner's heart,
Scrawl'd o'er with trifles thus, and quite