for an author, and I have since found among some particular friends
that it is become a very general complaint, and has produced the
same effects upon many others. For I have remarked many a towardly
word to be wholly neglected or despised in discourse, which hath
passed very smoothly with some consideration and esteem after its
preferment and sanction in print. But now, since, by the liberty
and encouragement of the press, I am grown absolute master of the
occasions and opportunities to expose the talents I have acquired, I
already discover that the issues of my observanda begin to grow too
large for the receipts. Therefore I shall here pause awhile, till I
find, by feeling the world's pulse and my own, that it will be of
absolute necessity for us both to resume my pen.

[In some early editions of "The Tale of a Tub," Swift added, under
the title of "What Follows after Section IX.," the following sketch
for a "History of Martin."]



THE HISTORY OF MARTIN.



Giving an account of his departure from Jack, and their setting up
for themselves, on which account they were obliged to travel, and
meet many disasters; finding no shelter near Peter's habitation,
Martin succeeds in the North; Peter thunders against Martin for the
loss of the large revenue he used to receive from thence; Harry Huff
sent Marlin a challenge in fight, which he received; Peter rewards
Harry for the pretended victory, which encouraged Harry to huff