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Note 5 — INTRODUCTION

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Thomas Roscoe, ed., The Works of Jonathan Swift (London, 1850), I, 529; [C.W. Dilke], "Dean Swift and the Scriblerians v. Dr. Wagstaffe," Notes and Queries, 3d ser., I, 381-384; Sir Walter Scott, ed., The Works of Swift, 2d ed. (London, 1883), V, 414; Herbert Davis, "Introduction," Prose Works of Swift, VIII, xiv-xv; Mark Noble, A Biographical History of England, From the Revolution to the end of George I's Reign (London, 1806), III, 367-368. Vinton A. Dearing in his "Jonathan Swift or William Wagstaffe?" HLB, VII (1953), 121-130, makes a survey of previous discussions, and concludes that Wagstaffe wrote all the pieces in the Miscellaneous Works. See also the article cited in footnote 6.

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