upon my
making the same speech to him, he said, he did not understand such
usage, and so walked off without his dinner. By the same token, I
told the gentleman who recommended him to me, that the fellow was a
blockhead, and I had done with him.' "--SHERIDAN'S _Life of Swift_.

43 FROM THE ARCHBISHOP OF CASHELL.

"Cashell, May 31st, 1735

"DEAR SIR,--

"I have been so unfortunate in all my contests of late, that I am
resolved to have no more, especially where I am likely to be
overmatched; and as I have some reason to hope what is past will be
forgotten, I confess I did endeavour in my last to put the best
colour I could think of upon a very bad cause. My friends judge
right of my idleness; but, in reality, it has hitherto proceeded
from a hurry and confusion, arising from a thousand unlucky
unforeseen accidents rather than mere sloth. I have but one
troublesome affair now upon my hands, which, by the help of the
prime serjeant, I hope soon to get rid of; and then you shall see me
a true Irish bishop. Sir James Ware has made a very useful
collection of the memorable actions of my predecessors. He tells me,
they were born in such a town of England or Ireland; were
consecrated such a year; and, if not translated, were buried in the
Cathedral church, either on the north or south side. Whence I
conclude, that a good bishop has nothing more to do than to eat,
drink, grow fat, rich, and die; which laudable example I propose for
the remainder of my life to follow; for to tell you the truth, I
have for these four or five years past met with so much treachery,
baseness, and ingratitude among mankind, that I can hardly think it
incumbent on any man to endeavour to do good to so perverse a
generation.

"I am truly concerned at the account you give me of your health.
Without doubt a southern ramble will prove the best remedy you can
take to recover your flesh; and I do not know, except in one stage,
where you can choose a road so suited to your circumstances, as from
Dublin hither. You have to Kilkenny a turnpike and good inns, at
every ten or twelve miles' end. From Kilkenny hither is twenty long
miles, bad road, and no inns at all: but I have an expedient for
you. At the foot of a very high hill, just midway,