(What could he less?)[9] his whole estate. The widow goes through all her forms: New lovers now will come in swarms. O, may I see her soon dispensing Her favours to some broken ensign! Him let her marry for his face, And only coat of tarnish'd lace; To turn her naked out of doors, And spend her jointure on his whores; But, for a parting present, leave her A rooted pox to last for ever! [Footnote 1: Collated with Swift's original MS. in my possession, dated January, 1721-2.--_Forster_.] [Footnote 2: "A rich divine began to woo," "A grave divine resolved to woo," are Swift's successive changes of this line.--_Forster_.] [Footnote 3: "Philippa, daughter to an Earl," is the original text, but he changed it on changing the lady's name to Jane.--_Forster_.] [Footnote 4: Scott prints "her."--_Forster_.] [Footnote 5: Swift has writ in the margin: "If by a more than usual grace She lends him in her chariot place, Her hoop is hoist above his nose For fear his gown should soil her clothes."--_Forster_.] [Footnote 6: For this fable, see Ovid, "Metam.," lib. ix.--_W. E. B._] [Footnote 7: So named from a very curious cross or pillar which was erected in it in 1687 by John, Earl of Melfort, Secretary of State to James the Second, in honour of the King's second wife, Mary Beatrice of Modena, having conceived after bathing there.--Collinson's "History of Somersetshire."--_W. E. B._] [Footnote 8: "Meanwhile stands cluckling at the brim," the first draft.--_Forster_.] [Footnote 9: "The best of heirs" in first draft.--_Forster_.] THE PROGRESS OF POETRY