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DIALOGUE

BETWEEN

Dean _Swift_ and _Tho. Prior_, Esq;

In the Isles of St. _Patrick's_ Church, _Dublin, Oct. 9, 1753_.

PRIOR. Mr. Dean, I am sorry to see you up, if any of your private Affairs disturb you. I came to call at your Grave, and have a little Discourse with you; but unless 'tis the Publick has rouz'd you, I am troubled to find you walking as well as my self.

SWIFT. 'Tis my Country keeps me walking! why who can lie still? I don't believe there are many Ghosts now, that have any share of Understanding, or any regard for _Ireland_, that are to be found in their Graves at Midnight. For my part I can no more keep in my Den than if it were the Day of Judgment. I have been earth'd now eight Years last _October_, and I think on my Conscience (and you know _Tom_ the Conscience of one dead Man is worth ten of those that are living) I have had very few good Days Sleep since I got there. Ah _Tom_! poor _Ireland_! poor _Ireland_! it plagued my Heart while I was trifling away Life there; but my Curse on it, I never thought it would have broke my Rest thus when I was dead. I have tumbled and toss'd from one Side to the other (and by the by, they make these cursed Coffins so narrow 'tis a Plague to be in them) first one Thing would come into my Head, and then another, and often wrought me so, that I have many a time been forced to walk a whole Moon to rest me and get the better Nap when I lay down. Prithee how have you done?

PRIOR. Why, very little better; only as I have not been so long shut up in my Dormitory as you, the Confinement is less irksome. But I was not affected the same way with you, for I sometimes slept for Months together like a Dormouse; but when _Ireland_ once gets into my Head and its present melancholy Circumstances, it works my Thoughts upwards and downwards from the Great Ones to their Slaves, like a poor Patient with _Ward_'s Drop and Pill.

Table of contents (by pages)

• 1: A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq.
• 2: That was fonder of scribling than reigning
• 3: That Abuse from such Scriblers
• 4: That you were sufficiently mortified
• 5: When Oppressors gall Men or Nations too long
• 6: They had been retrieved by mine
• 7: After so many Acts for Turnpikes
• 8: Charter Schools establish'd in them
• 9: That the whole Body of the Popish Clergy
• 10: To breed Cattle to mount our Troops
• 11: Our common Irish are cloathed with Rags
• 12: I reckon the encrease of our Hands the greater Blessing
• 13: That there is no Cause for Rivalship
• 14: From the Dublin Society's Premiums
• 15: They have also shewn us another undisputed Truth
• 16: That I am persuaded Malice here below
• 17: By proper Donations or Subscriptions
• 18: Of almost infinite Services which the Society did Ireland
• 19: With its two penny Rewards and three penny Premiums
• 20: And to talk of mending our Climate
• 21: As they are connected with the Publick
• 22: So fit a Purgatory for Sloth as Ireland
• 23: Beggars and vagabond Strollers
• 24: Charity to Vagabonds is Cruelty to the State
• 25: To be cloathed by our own People
• 26: A Multitude of Gentlemen and Beggars
• 27: Or act for ourselves or the Publick
• 28: And above all if the additional Taxes
• 29: That is founded on the Intemperance of his People
• 30: And the Plow wou'd enliven the Wheel and the Reel
• 31: But good Dwellings do naturally encrease Children
• 32: Nor any penal Laws to enforce our Tillage
• 33: But there are two Instances of our Folly as to Tillage
• 34: Our Tillage and our Collieries
• 35: That England must consult our Welfare
• 36: I must add to all these Complaints
• 37: And I hope as our Linen Manufactures
• 38: As her Rivals undersell her in
• 39: Is involv'd in that of the Publick
• 40: Are Nursed at the publick Charge
• 41: Detested those that hindered them
• 42: Are a dreadful Carnage of Sins and Infirmities
• 43: That they wrangled for something very Important
• 44: That we paid on an Average about 60000 l
• 45: That we want our Canal and our Coals
• 46: Or the Sailor who forsakes his Ship
• 47: Such as Ireland labours under
• 48: Increase the Number of our Houses and Orchards prodigiously
• 49: To procure the first Subscriptions
• 50: And this is plainly the Case of all Praemiums
• 51: Have doubled the Praemiums of most of the Articles
• 52: I would have promoted by judicious Praemiums
• 53: As when they expose their Weakness and Envy by reviling it
• 54: Prithee be calm and cool as the Grave ought to make you
• 55: That if our Senators will Vote 4000 l
• 56: And to encourage publick Works
• 57: As almost as usefull to the Happiness of Ireland