Notes on “A Beautiful 10. Bolus, "A form of medicine in which the ingredients are made up into a soft Young Nymph Going mass, larger than pills, to be swallowed to Bed” at once" (Johnson). 11. Bridewell, a woman's prison. 1. Drury Lane, like Covent Garden Compter, prisons controlled by sheriffs. below, was a fashionable area of London, but often frequented by 12. Transported can suggest either that prostitutes. she goes to Jamaica in her imagination, or that she has been sent to work in the 2. Toast, "A celebrated woman whose New World as punishment for a crime. health is often drunk" (Johnson). 13. "—Et longam incomitata videtur/Ire 3. Rake, "A loose, disorderly, vicious, viam—" (Swift's note): "She seemed to wild, gay, thoughtless fellow; a man be going on a long journey alone" (from addicted to pleasure" (Johnson). Virgil's Aeneid, 4.467-68).

4. Tick, "credit." 14. Cully, "A man deceived or imposed upon; as, by sharpers or a strumpet" 5. Plumper, "Something worn in the (Johnson). mouth to swell out the cheeks" (Johnson). 15. Fancy, "Imagination; the power by which the mind forms to itself images 6. Dug, "A pap; a nipple; a teat: spoken and representations of things, persons, or of beasts, or in malice or contempt of scenes of being" (Johnson). human beings" (Johnson).

16. Dun, "A clamorous, importunate, 7. Bodice, "Stays; a waistcoat quilted troublesome creditor" (Johnson). with whalebone, worn by women" (Johnson). 17. Rub, "Collision; hindrance; obstruction" (Johnson). 8. Shankers, Issues, and running Sores, presumably from venereal disease. 18. Issue-peas, pieces of ivy root rolled Shankers, "chancres." up and inserted into open wounds to keep them running. 9. Front, "forehead." Notes on “Cassinus and 12. Dart, "arrow." Peter: A Tragical 13. Arcadians, inhabitants of the legendary home of pastoral poetry. Elegy 14. Grave, "engrave." 1. Fix my Metre, "Suit the number of syllables in the line of poetry." 15. Cerberian triple Bark: Cerberus, the watchdog of Hades, had three heads. The 2. Spleen, "Melancholy; next few lines refer to other figures in hypochondriacal vapours" (Johnson). Hades.

3. Shirt, "The under linen garment of a 16. Wherry, "A light boat used on rivers" man" (Johnson). (Johnson).

4. Jordan, "A pot" (Johnson). 17. "See Mackbeth" Swift's note. See Macbeth 3.4, which includes the lines 5. Accoutred, "decked out." "Thou canst not say I did it" and "Avaunt! and quit my sight!" 6. Pate, "top of the head."

18. Purge, "A cathartick medicine; a 7. Mattins, morning church services. medicine that evacuates the body by 8. Aurora, the goddess of the dawn. stool" (Johnson); bleeding was a common treatment for many medical 9. Hypps, a contraction of conditions. "hypochondria." In Swift's day it meant not fear of having diseases, but 19. Zephyr, "The west wind; and something like the modern notion of poetically any calm soft wind" clinical depression. (Johnson).

10. Swain, "A pastoral youth" (Johnson). 20. Feather'd Race, a poetical way of referring to birds. 11. Sunk down her nose: one symptom of advanced syphilis is that the cartilage in the body decays, causing the nose and ears to fall off.