The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 7/To Mrs. Houghton of Beaumont

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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 7
(c. 1720)
by Jonathan Swift, edited by Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, John Boyle, Patrick Delany, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift, William Bowyer, John Birch, and George Faulkner

To Mrs. Houghton of Beaumont

Verses written on a Window at the Deanery

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1560504The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 7
— To Mrs. Houghton of Beaumontc. 1720Jonathan Swift

TO MRS. HOUGHTON OF BOURMONT.

Upon praising her Husband to Dr. Swift.

YOU always are making a God of your Spouse;
But this neither Reason nor Conscience allows;
Perhaps you will say, 'tis in gratitude due,
And you adore him, because he adores you.
Your argument's weak, and so you will find;
For you, by this rule, must adore all mankind.