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76 better or easier; next to that it pleases me that you make me the person you would complain to.

As the obtaining the love of valuable men is the happiest end I know of this life, so the next felicity is to get rid of fools and scoundrels; which I cannot but own to you was one part of my design in falling upon these authors, whose incapacity is not greater than their insincerity, and of whom I have always found (if I may quote myself)

This Poem will rid me of those insects,

I mean than my Iliad; and I call it Nescio quid which is a degree of modesty; but however if it silence these fellows, it must be something greater than any Iliad in Christendom. Adieu.

DUBLIN, MAY 10, 1728,

HAVE with great pleasure shown the New England newspaper with the two names Jonathan Gulliver; and I remember Mr. Fortescue sent you