forbear troubling you with my hearty respects to ye owners of them,
and desiring you to believe me always,

"Dear Sir,

"To Mr. Wyche, His Majesty's Resident at Hambourg,
"May, 1703."

--From the _Life of Addison_, by Miss Aikin, vol. i, p. 146.

84 It is pleasing to remember that the relation between Swift and
Addison was, on the whole, satisfactory, from first to last. The
value of Swift's testimony, when nothing personal inflamed his
vision or warped his judgement, can be doubted by nobody.

"Sept. 10, 1710.--I sat till ten in the evening with Addison and
Steele.

"11.--Mr. Addison and I dined together at his lodgings, and I sat
with him part of this evening.

"18.--To-day I dined with Mr. Stratford at Mr. Addison's retirement
near Chelsea.... I will get what good offices I can from Mr.
Addison.

"27.--To-day all our company dined at Will Frankland's, with Steele
and Addison, too.

"29.--I dined with Mr. Addison," &c.--_Journal to Stella._

Addison inscribed a presentation copy of his _Travels_ "To Dr.
Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable companion, the truest friend, and
the greatest genius of his age."--SCOTT. From the information of Mr.
Theophilus Swift.

"Mr. Addison, who goes over first secretary, is a most excellent
person; and being my most intimate friend, I shall use all my credit
to set him right in his notions of persons and things."--_Letters._

"I examine my heart, and can find no other reason why I write to you
now, besides that great love and esteem I have always had for you. I
have nothing to ask you either for my friend or for myself."--Swift
to Addison (1717), SCOTT'S _Swift_, vol. xix, p. 274.

Political differences only dulled for a while their friendly
communications. Time renewed them; and Tickell enjoyed Swift's
friendship as a legacy from the man with whose memory his is so
honourably connected.

85 "Addison usually studied all the morning; then met his party at
Button's; dined there, and stayed five or six hours, and sometimes
far into the night. I was of the company for about a year, but found
it too much for me: it hurt my health, and so I quitted it."--POPE
(_Spence's Anecdotes_).

86 "When he returned to England (in 1702), with a meanness of