prepared to die conformably to his own precepts and professions.
During this lingering decay, he sent, as Pope relates, a message by
the Earl of Warwick to Mr. Gay, desiring to see him. Gay, who had
not visited him for some time before, obeyed the summons, and found
himself received with great kindness. The purpose for which the
interview had been solicited was then discovered. Addison told him
that he had injured him; but that, if he recovered, he would
recompense him. What the injury was he did not explain, nor did Gay
ever know; but supposed that some preferment designed for him had,
by Addison's intervention, been withheld.

Lord Warwick was a young man, of very irregular life, and perhaps of
loose opinions. Addison, for whom he did not want respect, had very
diligently endeavoured to reclaim him, but his arguments and
expostulations had no effect. One experiment, however, remained to
be tried; when he found his life near its end, he directed the young
lord to be called, and when he desired with great tenderness to hear
his last injunctions, told him, "I have sent for you that you may
see how a Christian can die." What effect this awful scene had on
the earl, I know not; he likewise died himself in a short time.

In Tickell's excellent Elegy on his friend are these lines:--

"He taught us how to live; and, oh! too high
The price of knowledge, taught us how to die"--

in which he alludes, as he told Dr. Young, to this moving interview.

Having given directions to Mr. Tickell for the publication of his
works, and dedicated them on his death-bed to his friend Mr. Craggs,