An Extra Echo to Swift's Epigraph for Gulliver's Travels (1735)

Rogers discusses the final chapter of Book IV of Gulliver's Travels in which Jonathan Swift has Gulliver assert his veracity by naively quoting words from Sinon, the Greek responsible for duping the Trojans into admitting the Trojan horse within the walls of Troy. Rogers believes that Swift was just as likely to have been thinking of the use of the tag as an epigraph to Tatler 254, a discussion of the delights and fantastic nature of travel writing, in particular of the amusing discussion of frozen words from John Mandeville's Travels.