In another of the _Spectators_, we meet with something which proves to us, that a Man may have as much Modesty as Mr. _Addison_; and yet be very jealous of losing any Part of the Glory which is due to him. Every one knows, that though he was a Master of Eloquence, he never attempted to speak in Parliament, but it was with some Confusion; and what he said, did not answer the Expectation which had been raised by the Character of his Writings. Himself takes notice of this, not as an Infirmity, but as the Effect of Caution and Art. _Spectator_, Nº 231, Cicero tells us, that he never liked an Orator, _who did not appear in some little Confusion at the Beginning of his Speech; and confesses, that he himself never entered upon an Oration without Trembling and Concern. It is indeed a Kind of Deference which is due to a great Assembly. The bravest Man often appears timorous upon these Occasions, as we may observe that there is generally no Creature more impudent than a Coward._ I hope I shall not be thought invidious, or to endeavour to lessen the Veneration, which all, who love polite Learning, owe to the Memory of the _Spectator_; yet I could not but take notice, how sensible the most Discreet are in Point of Rivalship in Fame. What else can one think of the _Spectator_'s Saying in the Dedication of the Eighth Volume: _I need not tell you, that the free and disengaged Behaviour of a fine Gentleman, makes as many aukward_ Beaux, _as the Easiness of your Favourite_ Waller _hath made insipid Poets._ Though the _fine Gentleman_ may be applied to Mr. _Waller_, and the _aukward Beaux_ to the insipid Poets; yet the Comparison cannot hold, without doing an Injury to Mr. _Waller_'s Merit. The _Beaux_ may be aukward, by imitating what you call a _fine Gentleman_, who is generally distinguish'd by some Affectation; but no Poet can be insipid by imitating Mr. _Waller_'s Easiness, if he has any Portion of his Wit and Gallantry. The _Spectator_'s Manner was not very different from Mr. _Waller_'s, as to Easiness; and I have as often heard it wished, that there was more Fire in his own Poetry, as that there was more in Mr. _Waller_'s. Two of the politest Authors in _Europe_, of the last Age, St. _Evremont_ and _La Fontaine_, had such an Esteem for Mr. _Waller_, that it is strange he meets with no better Quarter at Home. Those two famous _French_ Wits us'd to call him another _Anacreon_; and the Criticks have not yet complained, that ever _Anacreon_ taught any Poet to be insipid. Mr. _Addison_ is so far from thinking that _Waller_ had any such Infection about him, that he wishes he had lived to have sung in Praise of King _William_, the sublimest Subject that ever was offered to a Muse, by how much the Deliverer of Nations from Slavery is a more godlike Character, than to have subjected and enslaved them, as did _Alexander_ and _Cæsar_.