heighten his disgust, and stimulate his resentment. Of such
adherents Addison doubtless had many; and Pope was now too high to
be without them. From the emission and reception of the proposals
for the "Iliad," the kindness of Addison seems to have abated.
Jervas the painter once pleased himself (August 20,1714) with
imagining that he had re-established their friendship, and wrote to
Pope that Addison once suspected him of too close a confederacy with
Swift, but was now satisfied with his conduct. To this Pope
answered, a week after, that his engagements to Swift were such as
his services in regard to the subscription demanded, and that the
Tories never put him under the necessity of asking leave to be
grateful. "But," says he, "as Mr. Addison must be the judge in what
regards himself, and seems to have no very just one in regard to me,
so I must own to you I expect nothing but civility from him." In
the same letter he mentions Philips, as having been busy to kindle
animosity between them; but in a letter to Addison he expresses some
consciousness of behaviour, inattentively deficient in respect.

Of Swift's industry in promoting the subscription there remains the
testimony of Kennet, no friend to either him or Pope.

"November 2, 1713, Dr. Swift came into the coffee-house, and had a
bow from everybody but me, who, I confess, could not but despise
him. When I came to the antechamber to wait, before prayers, Dr.
Swift was the principal man of talk and business, and acted as
master of requests. Then he instructed a young nobleman that the
BEST POET IN ENGLAND was Mr. Pope (a papist), who had begun a
translation of 'Homer' into English verse, for which HE MUST HAVE
THEM ALL SUBSCRIBE: for, says he, the author SHALL NOT begin to
print till _I_ HAVE a thousand guineas for him."