[Footnote 5: Gambeson; "vestimenti genus quod de coactili ad mensuram et tutelam pectoris humani conficitur, de mollibus lanis, ut, hoc inducta primum, lorica vel clibanus, aut his similia, fragilitatem corporis, ponderis asperitate non læderent."--_Ducange._]
[Footnote 6: Cenovectorium; "a mudcart."--_Ducange._]
[Footnote 7: "Conjicio _garrotos_ esse spingardarum tela, quibus pennæ æreæ aptabantur utpote grandioribus; _carrellis_ vero pennæ plumatiles tantum." (See Ducange, sub voce _Garrotus_.)]
The biographer and the critic, down to the pamphleteer and the lecturer, have united in painting St. Patrick's immortal Dean in the blackest colours. To their (for the most part) unmerited scandal and reproach thus heaped upon his memory (as little in accordance with truth as with Christian charity), let me, Mr. Editor, oppose the following brief but emphatic testimony on the bright (and I firmly believe the _right_) side of the question, of the virtuous, the accomplished Addison:
"To Dr. Jonathan Swift, The most Agreeable Companion, The Truest Friend, And the Greatest Genius of his Age, This Book is presented by his most Humble Servant the Authour."
The above inscription, in the autograph of Addison, is on the fly-leaf of his _Remarks on several Parts of Italy, &c._, 8vo. 1705, the possession of which I hold very dear.
Permit me to add _another_ beautiful example of friendship between two generous rivals in a glorious art.
"In return for your elegant volume, let me request you will accept this little work, as a testimony of ardent esteem and friendship.
"While the two books remain they will prove, that in a time of much professional jealousy, there were _two painters_, at least, who could be emulous, without being envious; who could contend without enmity, and associate without suspicion.
"That this cordiality may long subsist between us, is the sincere desire of, dear Hoppner,
Yours ever faithfully, MARTIN ARCHER SHEE. Cavendish Square, December 7, 1805."
This letter is written on the fly-leaf of _Rhymes on Art, or the Remonstrance of a Painter_, 2nd edit. 1805, also in my library.
Need I offer an apology for introducing a _third_ inscription?
"To my perfect Friend, Mr. Francis Crane, I erect this Altar of Friendship, And leave it as the Eternall Witnesse of my Love. Ben Jonson."
