An original note here occurs,'Riches produceth Pride: Pride is War's Ground, etc. Vid. Ephem. de Mary Clarke, opt. edit.' Scott adds 'now called Wing's Sheet Almanack, and printed by J. Roberts, for the Company of Stationers.' Wing was one of the well-known Almanac writers of the day, named by Swift in one of the Bickerstaff pamphlets. Ephemerides was a title given to some of these compilations, but I have failed to trace any in the name of Mary Clarke. Swift's reference may be purposely misleading, and the point of the sentence may very likely be to sneer at the prophetic almanacs of the day, by pretending that Time would choose such a vehicle for announcing the secrets which he alone can reveal.