A dialogue between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. in the isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, on that memorable day, October 9th, 1753 / By a friend to the peace and prosperity of Ireland.

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1753
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Credit: A dialogue between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. in the isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, on that memorable day, October 9th, 1753 / By a friend to the peace and prosperity of Ireland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [2] Sleep fince I got there. Ah Tom! poor Ireland! poor dreland! it plagued my Heart while I was.trifling away Life there; but my Curfe on it, I never thought it would have broke my Reft- thus when I was dead. I have tumbled and tofs’d from one Side to the other (and by the by, :they make thefe curfed Coffins fo nar- row ’tis a Plague to be in them) - firft one Thing would come into my Head, and then another, and often wrought me fo, that I have many a time been forced to. walk a whole Moon to reft me and-get the better Nap when I lay down. Prithee how have you done? . | . Prior, Why, very little better; only as I have not been fo long fhut up in my Dormitory as you, the Confinement is lefs irkfome. But I was not affected the fame way with you, for I fometimes flept for Months together like a Dormoufe ; but when Jre/and once gets into my Head and its prefent melancholy Circumftances, it works my Thoughts upwards and downwards from the Great Ones to their Slaves, like a poor Patient with Ward's Drop and Pill. Swirt, That has often been my Cafe Tom. When I get into that Train of thinking, and confider the prefent Situation of our Country, it makes me as un- eafy in my Coffin as a Rat fhut up in a Trap.’ I re member an old She * Fool, that was fonder of {erib: ling than reigning, ufed to fay, that the Dead have that melancholy Advantage over the Living of firft forgetting them ; but ’tis as falfe as ten thoufand other © Queen Chriftina of Sweden. Truths,
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