Note 64 — LETTER XLI.
Reading edition
As these Lines will not admit of a Version to the Satisfaction of an English Reader, ’tis sufficient to acquaint him, that they are a Satire upon the Humour which prevail’d at that Time, among People of all Ranks, from the Duke to his Scullion, to be Adventurers in Mr. Law’s Scheme; a Madness which was contemporary, and equally mischievous with the Delusion that was so predominant in our own Country, in that fatal Year of 1720, when so many People were, as we may term it, cast away in the South-Sea, and the lesser Whirlpools, call’d Bubbles, of which there was almost an infinite Number.