of Hamburgh, gratefully remembering Wyche's "hoc." "I have been drinking your health to-day with Sir Richard Shirley," he writes to Bathurst. "I have lately had the honour to meet my Lord Effingham at Amsterdam, where we have drunk Mr. Wood's health a hundred times in excellent champagne," he writes again. Swift[1] describes him over his cups, when Joseph
- ↑ 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 judgment, 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.
I tell him Mr. Wyche was there. As your company made our stay at Hambourg agreeable, your wine has given us all ye satisfaction that we have found in our journey through Westphalia. If drinking your health will do you any good, you may expect to be as long lived as Methuseleh, or, to use a more familiar instance, as ye oldest hoc in ye cellar. I hope ye two pair of legs that was left a swelling behind us are by this time come to their shapes again. I can't forbear troubling you with my hearty respects to ye owners of them, and desiring you to believe me always,
