170
MEMOIRS
OF
vourite,
were
unavailing
;
and
Swift,
galled
by
the
difficulty
which
attended
his
promotion,
could
only
console
his
pride
by
the
consideration,
that
a
bishop
had
been
created
against
great
opposition,
and
with
out
any
interest
of
his
own,
in
order
to
make
way
for
his
gaining
the
best
deanery
in
Ireland.
It
is
re
markable,
that,
neither
during
the
agitating
period
when
this
business
was
in
dependence,
nor
at
any
other
time,
did
Swift
suffer
himself
to
glance
a
sar
casm
at
Queen
Anne,
or
at
her
memory.*
And
this
*
The
following
line
can
hardly
be
considered
as
an
exception
:
By
an
old
[murderess
?]
pursued,
A
crazy
prelate,
and
a
royal
prude.
In
the
same
piece
he
mentions,
in
very
different
terms,
the
in
trigues
of
Archbishop
Sharpe
and
the
Duchess
of
Somerset
:
York
is
from
Lambeth
sent
to
tell
the
queen,
A
dangerous
treatise
writ
against
the
spleen
;
Which
by
the
style,
the
matter,
and
the
drift,
' Tis
thought
could
be
the
work
of
none
but
Swift.
Poor
York
!
the
harmless
tool
of
others '
hate
;
He
sues
for
pardon,
and
repents
too
late.
Now
angry
Somerset
her
vengeance
vows,
On
Swift ' s
reproaches
for
her
murder ' d
spouse
:
From
her
red
locks
her
mouth
with
venom
fills,
And
thence
into
the
royal
ear
distils.
It
is
remarkable,
that,
in
two
passages
of
his
Journal
to
Stella,
Swift
intimates
that
the
Archbishop
of
York
had
expressed
a
strong
wish
to
be
reconciled
to
him
;
but
it
does
not
appear
that
they
ever
met.
Delany,
after
expressing
his
surprise
that
Swift
should
ever
have
been
represented
as
an
infidel,
mentions,
as
if
it
consisted
with
his
own
knowledge,
"
It
will
be
some
satisfaction
to
