ADVERTISEMENT.

It may perhaps be objected, that some of the PIECES in this Volume, are Too TRIFLING, and were never intended, by the AUTHOR, for the EYE OF THE PUBLICK: But as it was thought it would be an agreeable Entertainment to the Curious, to see how oddly a Man of his GREAT WIT and HUMOUR could now and then descend to amuse himself with his particular Friends, it is hoped this will apologize for the Publication of them.

DR. SWIFT's

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WILL.

N the Name of GOD, Amen. I JONATHAN SWIFT, Doctor in Divinity, and Dean of the Cathedral Church of St. Patrick, Dublin, being at this Present of found Mind, although weak in Body, do here make my last Will and Testament, hereby revoking my former Wills.

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Imprimis: I bequeath my Soul to God, (in humble Hopes of his Mercy through JESUS CHRIST) and my Body to the Earth. And, I defire that my Body may be buried in the great Isle of the faid Cathedral, on the South Side, under the Pillar next to the Monument of Primate Narciffus Marsh, three Days after my Decease, as privately as poffible, and at Twelve o'Clock at Night: And, that a Black Marble of Feet fquare, and feven Feet from the Ground, fixed to the Wall, may be erected, with the following Infcription in large Letters, VOL. VIII. deeply

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deeply cut, and ftrongly gilded. HIC DEPOSITUM EST CORPUS JONATHAN SWIFT, S. T. D. HUJUS ECCLESIÆ CATHEDRALIS DECANI, UBI SÆVA INDIGNATIO ULTERIUS COR LACERARE NEQUIT. IMITARE, SI POTERIS, STRENUUM PRO VIRILI LIBERTATIS VINDICATOREM. OBIIT ANNO (1745) MENSIS (OCTOBRIS) DIE (19) ÆTATIS ANNO (78).

Item: I give and bequeath to my Executors all my worldly Subftance, of what Nature or Kind foever (excepting fuch Part thereof as is herein after particularly devised) for the following Ufes and Purposes, that is to fay, to the Intent that they, or the Survivors or Survivor of them, their Executors, or Administrators, as foon as conveniently may be after my Death, shall turn it all into ready Money, and lay out the fame in purchafing Lands of Inheritance in Fee-fimple, fituate in any Province of Ireland, except Connaught, but as near to the City of Dublin, as conveniently can be found, and not incumbered with, or fubject to any Leafes for Lives renewable, or any Terms for Years longer than Thirty-one : And I defire that a yearly Annuity of Twenty Pounds Sterling, out of the annual Profits of fuch Lands when purchased, and out of the yearly Income of my faid Fortune, devised to my Executors as aforefaid, until fuch Purchase shall be made, fhall

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be paid to Rebecca Dingley of the City of Dublin, Spinfter, during her Life, by two equal half-yearly Payments, on the Feafts of AllSaints, and St. Philip and St. Jacob, the first Payment to be made on fuch of the said Feasts as fhall happen next after my Death. And that the Refidue of the yearly Profits of the faid Lands when purchased, and until fuch Purchase be made, the Refidue of the yearly Income and Interest of my faid Fortune devised as aforefaid to my Executors, fhall be laid out in purchafing a Piece of Land, fituate near Dr. Stevens's Hospital, or if it cannot be there had, somewhere in or near the City of Dublin, large enough for the Purposes herein after mentioned, and in building thereon an Hospital large enough for the Reception of as many Idiots and Lunaticks as the annual Income of the faid Lands and worldly Substance shall be fufficient to maintain: And, I defire that the faid Hofpital may be called St. Patrick's Hofpital, and may be built in fuch a manner, that another Building may be added unto it, in cafe the Endowment thereof fhould be enlarged; fo that the additional Building may make the whole Edifice regular and compleat. And my further Will and Defire is, that when the faid Hofpital fhall be built, the whole yearly Income of the faid Lands and Eftate, fhall, for ever after, be laid out in providing Victuals, Cloathing, Medicines, Attendance, and all other Neceffaries for fuch Idiots and Lunaticks, as fhall be received into the fame; and in repair