Deaf and dumb Danes
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- Swift's epigram on the Magazine Fort (FW 012.36 ff.) was said to be the dying words of his Wit before he lapsed into madness becoming deaf-and-dumb → see, for example, FW 007.05-06 Tilling a teel of a tum, telling a toll of a teary turty Taubling
