It is well to notice that Swift observes no uniform practice with regard to the use of 'hath' and 'has.' The earliest editions of this treatise give us 'has' throughout. On the other hand, the earliest editions of the Tale of a Tub have, as uniformly, ' hath: In Gulliver, again, the first edition employs ' hath,' but in the copy (in the Forster Library) altered in Swift's own hand for a new edition, ' hath' is altered into ' has.' We may conclude, therefore, that Swift came to discard the use of ' hath ' as archaic; but in the separate books he probably left the printers to take their own way.