Page:The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 8.djvu/443



AVING received the following scheme from Dublin, I give you the earliest notice how you may retrieve decus et tutamen, which you have sacrificed by permits in bubbles. This project is founded on a parliamentary security; besides, the Devil is in it if it can fail, since a dignitary of the church is at the head of it. Therefore you who have subscribed to the stocking insurance, and are out at the heels, may soon appear tight about the leg; you who encouraged the hemp manufacture may leave the halter to rogues, and prevent the odium of felo . VIII.