brought before us in the painting exhibited by Miss Dicksee at the Royal
Academy a few years ago; he advised her what books to read, and instructed
her, as he says, "in the principles of honour and virtue, from which she never
swerved in any one action or moment of her life."

By 1694 Swift had grown tired of his position, and finding that Temple, who
valued his services, was slow in finding him preferment, he left Moor Park in
order to carry out his resolve to go into the Church. He was ordained, and
obtained the prebend of Kilroot, near Belfast, where he carried on a
flirtation with a Miss Waring, whom he called Varina. But in May 1696 Temple
made proposals which induced Swift to return to Moor Park, where he was
employed in preparing Temple's memoirs and correspondence for publication, and
in supporting the side taken by Temple in the Letters of Phalaris controversy
by writing The Battle of the Books, which was, however, not published until
1704. On his return to Temple's house, Swift found his old playmate grown
from a sickly child into a girl of fifteen, in perfect health. She came, he
says, to be "looked upon as one of the most beautiful, graceful, and agreeable
young women in London, only a little too fat. Her hair was blacker than a
raven, and every feature of her face in perfection."

On his death in January 1699, Temple left a will,[3] dated 1694, directing the
payment of 20 pounds each, with half a year's wages, to Bridget Johnson "and
all my other servants"; and leaving a lease of some land in Monistown, County
Wicklow, to Esther Johnson, "servant to my sister Giffard." By a codicil of
February 1698, Temple left 100 pounds to "Mr. Jonathan Swift, now living with
me." It may be added that by her will of 1722, proved in the following year,
Lady Giffard gave 20 pounds to Mrs. Moss--Mrs. Bridget Johnson, who had
married Richard Mose or Moss, Lady Giffard's steward. The will proceeds: "To
Mrs. Hester (sic) Johnson I give 10 pounds, with the 100 pounds I put into the
Exchequer for her life and my own, and declare the 100 pounds to be hers which