"'Midst empire's charms, how Carolina's heart
Glowed with the love of virtue and of art."

Since the grateful poet tells us, in the next couplet,

"Her favour is diffused to that degree,
Excess of goodness! it has dawned on me."

Her Majesty had stood godmother, and given her name, to the daughter
of the lady whom Young married in 1731; and had perhaps shown some
attention to Lady Elizabeth's future husband.

The fifth Satire, "On Women," was not published till 1727; and the
sixth not till 1728.

To these poems, when, in 1728, he gathered them into one
publication, he prefixed a Preface, in which he observes that "no
man can converse much in the world, but at what he meets with he
must either be insensible or grieve, or be angry or smile. Now to
smile at it, and turn it into ridicule," he adds, "I think most
eligible, as it hurts ourselves least, and gives vice and folly the
greatest offence. Laughing at the misconduct of the world will, in
a great measure, ease us of any more disagreeable passion about it.
One passion is more effectually driven out by another than by
reason, whatever some teach." So wrote, and so of course thought,
the lively and witty satirist at the grave age of almost fifty, who,
many years earlier in life, wrote the "Last Day." After all, Swift
pronounced of these Satires, that they should either have been more
angry or more merry.