II. His POETICAL Wri- VI. The PUBLICK SPI- EDINBURGH: Printed by HAMILTON, BALFOUR, and NEILL. M, DCC, LII. PREFACE. BY THE Publisher of the Dublin Edition. H AVING received great Encouragement from both Kingdoms; and especially from this, to publish a compleat and correct Edition in four Volumes, of the Works of the Reverend Dr. SWIFT, D. S. P. D. we defire Leave to inform the Reader how we have proceeded in this Affair. We do not find, that the Author did ever put his Name to above two Compofitions, which were both writ in Profe; the former is a Letter to the Lord Trea furer, |