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The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, Vol. X.

BOOK IV
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All coffee-house chat.
P.751._Burnet_.

Now a resolution was taken for the Queen's lying in at St.James's .-- _Swift_.

Windsor would have been more suspicious.
P.752._Burnet_, doubting of the legitimacy of the Pretender, and describing the Queen's manner of lying-in, says:--The Queen lay all the while a-bed: And, in order to the warming one side of it, a warming-pan was brought.

But it was not opened, that it might be seen that there was fire and nothing else in it .-- _Swift_.

This, the ladies say, is foolish.
P.753._Burnet_.


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