Note 43 — The Rover (Part i); or, The Banish’d Cavaliers The Rover (Part ii); or, The Banish’d Cavaliers The Dutch Lover The Round-Heads; or, The Good Old Cause

Swift, although he amply fulfilled Dryden’s famous prophecy, ‘Cousin Swift, you will never be a Pindaric poet’, was doubtless thinking of these Pindarics when in The Battle of the Books he wrote: ‘Then Pindar slew ——, and ——, and Oldham, and ——, and Afra the Amazon light of foot.’