Note xlv — THE ART of POLITICKS, In Imitation of HORACE's ART of POETRY.
Reading edition
P. 34, line 3. Toft: In 1726 one Mary Toft claimed to have given birth to seventeen live rabbits, and some who should have known better believed her. See Pope's poem on her, TE, 6, 259, and Hogarth's engraving.