of these three qualities: either a love of good
fellowship, a generosity of mind, or too much vivacity of spirits.
Your good behaviour on this article will concern your whole
community; deny the fact with all solemnity of imprecations: a
hundred of your brethren, if they can be admitted, will attend about
the bar, and be ready upon demand to give you a character before the
Court; let nothing prevail on you to confess, but the promise of a
pardon for discovering your comrades: but I suppose all this to be
in vain; for if you escape now, your fate will be the same another
day. Get a speech to be written by the best author of Newgate: some
of your kind wenches will provide you with a holland shirt and white
cap, crowned with a crimson or black ribbon: take leave cheerfully
of all your friends in Newgate: mount the cart with courage; fall on
your knees; lift up your eyes; hold a book in your hands, although
you cannot read a word; deny the fact at the gallows; kiss and
forgive the hangman; and so farewell; you shall be buried in pomp at
the charge of the fraternity: the surgeon shall not touch a limb of
you; and your fame shall continue until a successor of equal renown
succeeds in your place...."

40 "He continued in Sir William Temple's house till the death of that
great man."--_Anecdotes of the Family of Swift_, by the DEAN.

"It has since pleased God to take this great and good person to
himself."--Preface to _Temple's Works_.

On all _public_ occasions, Swift speaks of Sir William in the same
tone. But the reader will better understand how acutely he
remembered the indignities he suffered in his household, from the
subjoined extracts from the _Journal to Stella_:--

"I called at Mr. Secretary the other day, to see what the d---- ailed
him on Sunday: I made him a very proper speech; told him I observed
he was much out of temper, that I did not expect he would tell me
the cause, but would be glad to see he was in better; and one thing
I warned him of--never to appear cold to me, for I would not be
treated like a schoolboy; that I had felt too much of that in my
life already" [_meaning Sir William Temple_] &c. &c.--_Journal to
Stella._

"I am thinking what a veneration we used to have for Sir William
Temple