ot far from the deanery. On his public days she
regulated the table, but appeared at it as a mere guest, like other
ladies. On other days he often dined, at a stated price, with Mr.
Worral, a clergyman of his cathedral, whose house was recommended by
the peculiar neatness and pleasantry of his wife. To this frugal mode
of living, he was first disposed by care to pay some debts which he had
contracted, and he continued it for the pleasure of accumulating money.
His avarice, however, was not suffered to obstruct the claims of his
dignity; he was served in plate, and used to say that he was the poorest
gentleman in Ireland that ate upon plate, and the richest that lived
without a coach. How he spent the rest of his time, and how he employed
his hours of study, has been inquired with hopeless curiosity. For who
can give an account of another's studies? Swift was not likely to admit
any to his privacies, or to impart a minute account of his business or
his leisure.

Soon after (1716), in his forty-ninth year, he was privately married to
Mrs. Johnson, by Dr. Ashe, Bishop of Clogher, as Dr. Madden told me,
in the garden. The marriage made no change in their mode of life; they
lived in different houses, as before; nor did she ever lodge in the
deanery but when Swift was seized with a fit of giddiness. "It would be
difficult," says Lord Orrery, "to prove that they were ever afterwards
together without a third person."

The Dean of St. Patrick's lived in a private manner, known and regarded
only by his friends; till, about the year 1720, he, by a pamphlet,
recommended to the Irish the use, and consequently the improvement, of
their manufactures. For a man to use the productions of his own labour
is surely a natural right, and to like best what he makes himself is
a natural passion. But to excite this passion, and enforce this right,
appeared so criminal to those who had an interest in the English trade,
that the printer was imprisoned; and, as Hawkesworth justly observes,
the attention of the public being, by this outrageous resentment, turned
upon the proposal, the author was by consequence made popular.

In 1723 died Mrs. Van Homrigh, a woman made unhappy by her admiration
of wit, and ignominiously distinguished by the name of Vanessa, whose
conduct has been already sufficiently discussed, and whose history is
too well known to be minutely repeated. She was a young woman fond of
literature, whom Decanus, the dean, called Cade