Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- General Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- A Meditation Upon a Broom-Stick
- A Tritical Essay Upon the Faculties of the Mind
- Predictions for the Year 1708
- The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff ’s Predictions
- A Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq.
- A Famous Prediction of Merlin, the British Wizard
- Tatler no. 230
- Harrison’s Tatler no. 5
- Harrison’s Tatler no. 20
- A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue
- A Modest Defence of Punning
- Hints towards an Essay on Conversation
- On Good-Manners and Good-Breeding
- Hints on Good Manners
- The Last Speech and Dying Words of Ebenezor Ellison
- Of the Education of Ladies
- A History of Poetry
- A Discourse to Prove the Antiquity of the English Tongue
- On Barbarous Denominations in Ireland
- Polite Conversation
- Directions to Servants
- Associated Materials
- I April Fool’s Joke, 1709
- II Specimens of Irish English
- III Laws for the Dean’s Servants
- IV The Duty of Servants at Inns
- V Notes for Polite Conversation
- VI Fragment of a Preface for Directions to Servants
- Appendices
- A A Dialogue in the Castilian Language
- B The Dying Speech of Tom Ashe
- C To My Lord High Admirall. The Humble Petition of the Doctor, and the Gentlemen of Ireland
- D ’Squire Bickerstaff Detected
- E An Answer to Bickerstaff
- F The Publisher to the Reader (1711)
- G The Attribution to Swift of Further Tatlers and Spectators
- H The Attribution to Swift of A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet
- I The Last Farewell of Ebenezor Elliston to This Transitory World
- J A Consultation of Four Physicians Upon a Lord That Was Dying
- K A Certificate to a Discarded Servant
- General Textual Introduction and Texual Accounts of Individual Works
- 1 General Textual Introduction
- 2 Textual Accounts of Individual Works
- Bibliography
- Index
I - The Last Farewell of Ebenezor Elliston to This Transitory World
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 September 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- General Editors’ Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- A Meditation Upon a Broom-Stick
- A Tritical Essay Upon the Faculties of the Mind
- Predictions for the Year 1708
- The Accomplishment of the First of Mr. Bickerstaff ’s Predictions
- A Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff Esq.
- A Famous Prediction of Merlin, the British Wizard
- Tatler no. 230
- Harrison’s Tatler no. 5
- Harrison’s Tatler no. 20
- A Proposal for Correcting, Improving and Ascertaining the English Tongue
- A Modest Defence of Punning
- Hints towards an Essay on Conversation
- On Good-Manners and Good-Breeding
- Hints on Good Manners
- The Last Speech and Dying Words of Ebenezor Ellison
- Of the Education of Ladies
- A History of Poetry
- A Discourse to Prove the Antiquity of the English Tongue
- On Barbarous Denominations in Ireland
- Polite Conversation
- Directions to Servants
- Associated Materials
- I April Fool’s Joke, 1709
- II Specimens of Irish English
- III Laws for the Dean’s Servants
- IV The Duty of Servants at Inns
- V Notes for Polite Conversation
- VI Fragment of a Preface for Directions to Servants
- Appendices
- A A Dialogue in the Castilian Language
- B The Dying Speech of Tom Ashe
- C To My Lord High Admirall. The Humble Petition of the Doctor, and the Gentlemen of Ireland
- D ’Squire Bickerstaff Detected
- E An Answer to Bickerstaff
- F The Publisher to the Reader (1711)
- G The Attribution to Swift of Further Tatlers and Spectators
- H The Attribution to Swift of A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet
- I The Last Farewell of Ebenezor Elliston to This Transitory World
- J A Consultation of Four Physicians Upon a Lord That Was Dying
- K A Certificate to a Discarded Servant
- General Textual Introduction and Texual Accounts of Individual Works
- 1 General Textual Introduction
- 2 Textual Accounts of Individual Works
- Bibliography
- Index
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Headnote
For this, the ‘genuine’ counterpart to Swift's 1722 hoax The Last Speech and Dying Words of Ebenezor Ellison, see Headnote to that work. The text is taken from the sole printing, a half-sheet printed in double columns on one side only, bearing the imprint ‘DUBLIN: Printed by John Harding in Molesworth’s-Court in Fish-shamble Street. For Elizabeth Sadlier in School-House Lane near Highstreet’.
THE LAST FAREWELL OF EBENEZOR ELLISTON TO THIS TRANSITORY WORLD.
It is an accustomary Thing for those who unfortunately end their Lives like me, to relate something of their past Life and Actions before they leave the World, and appear before the great GOD, who is the Searcher and Judge of our Actions whether Good or Evil; and as I am a dying Man, and expect in a few Moments to meet my Creator in the Face, where the Book of Remembrance will be laid open before me, wherein all my Sins is Recorded, but I trust the Blood of the immaculate Lamb my Saviour being innocently shed for my Sins will wash them away, the which I rely and depend on; and as I am now a Dying Man, what I have to Relate shall be nothing but the Truth. I was Born in the City of Dublin on or about the 10th of July, 1690, my Parents when living were so well-known in this City, that I need not give any further Account of them, only that they discharged their Duty to me whilst living, and their Death by their honest Endeavours left me a very handsome fortune, which with the Blessing of God, I and my family might have lived to the End of my Days very happy and contented; but for want of the Grace of God in the Year 1719 I unfortunately became acquainted with some young Men who had no other Way of Living but by Robbing and Plundering in and about the City of Dublin, some of whom are now living, and others Executed for their just Deserts on or about the 12th of March 1720.
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- Parodies, Hoaxes, Mock TreatisesPolite Conversation, Directions to Servants and Other Works, pp. 607 - 610Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013