This meeting must have been bitterly painful to both men, who looked back on the most affectionate intimacy. What Addison thought of Swift is recorded in the inscription of a copy of his Travels in Italy, given to 'Dr. Jonathan Swift, the most agreeable Companion, the Truest Friend, and the Greatest Genius of his Age.' Addison, in his present conduct, can scarcely be acquitted of carelessness of the interests of Steele, and an uncharitable estimate of Swift's motives. Cf. p. 269, 1. 31.