{59} "But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labour lies."

- Dryden's "Virgil"

{60} "That the old may withdraw into safe ease."

{61} In his subsequent apology for "The Tale of a Tub," Swift wrote
of these machines that, "In the original manuscript there was a
description of a fourth, which those who had the papers in their
power blotted out, as having something in it of satire that I
suppose they thought was too particular; and therefore they were
forced to change it to the number three, whence some have
endeavoured to squeeze out a dangerous meaning that was never
thought on. And indeed the conceit was half spoiled by changing the
numbers; that of four being much more cabalistic, and therefore
better exposing the pretended virtue of numbers, a superstition then
intended to be ridiculed."

{62a} "Under the rainy sky, in the meetings of three and of four
ways."

{62b} Lucretius, lib. 2.--S.

{62c} "'Tis certain, then, the voice that thus can wound;
Is all material body, every sound."

{63} To be burnt or worm-eaten.

{64} The Royal Society first met at Gresham College, the resort of