MISCELLANIES I N VERS E. N. B. Whatever Verfes are not marked with an Afterisk * in this Volume are Dr. Swift's. A N' D VANESSA. TH Written Anno 1713. 'HE shepherds and the nymphs were seen The council for the fair began, *This poem is founded upon an offer of marriage made by a young lady to her preceptor: whether fuch an incident really happened, or what gave the poet occafion to suppose it, B ; Against her dignity and crown: Or fome worfe brute in human fhape, From From all the thousand female toys, In a dull ftream, which moving flow, Stops thus, and turns with ev'ry wind; The pleader, having spoke his best, Who fairly could on oath depofe, Nor further thofe deponents knew ---- B 3 The |