"His captain’s heart, Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper And is become the bellows and the fan To cool a gipsy’s lust."
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See: Claude Rawson, Swift and Others (Cambridge University Press, 2015), Ch. 7: Cooling to a Gypsy’s Lust
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