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Excerpt from Lives of the English Poets, Vol. 3 of 3
When he was about one-and-twenty being by the death 7 of Godwin Swift his uncle, who had supported him 3, left without subsistence, he went to consult his mother, who then lived at Leicester, about the future course of his life 4, and by her direction solicited the advice and patronage of Sir William Temple, who had married one of Mrs. Swift's relations, and whose father, Sir John Temple, Master of the Rolls in Ireland, had lived in great familiarity of friendship with Godwin Swift, by whom Jonathan had been to that time maintained 5.
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