THE FIFTH LETTER

Was addressed to Viscount Molesworth, a distinguished Whig; and the author

of several works written in a patriotic spirit. His agricultural treatise

on Ireland was highly approved by Swift. This closed the series for the

present. The tone of the letter is apologetic. Hitherto he has not shaken

off the impression left by the works of Lord Molesworth himself, of Locke,

of Molyneux and Sidney, who talked of liberty as a common blessing. But

now he will "grow wiser and learn to consider my driver, the road I am in,

and with whom I am yoked."

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