It was Steele, rather than young Bookwit, who says in the first scene, "I don't know how to express myself--but a woman, methinks, is a being between us and angels. She has something in her that at the same time gives awe and invitation; and I swear to you, I was never out in't yet, but I always judged of men as I observed they judged of women: there is nothing shows a man so much as the object of his affections." IV. The battle of Blenheim was won in August, 1704, and in December Addison obtained fame and office by his poem _The Campaign_. Steele, who was in constant intercourse with him, said in after years that Addison, in spite of his bashfulness and modesty, "was above all men in that talent we call humour." At the various coffee-houses, and especially at the Kitcat Club, the friends met all the famous wits of the day. Steele endeavoured, in 1704, without success, to increase his income by obtaining a troop in a regiment of Dragoons, which the Duke of Ormond was about to raise. Next year Lord Lucas died, and Steele's connection with the army appears to have been severed not long afterwards. In March, 1705, Steele's third play, _The Tender Husband; or, the Accomplished Fools_, was given to Rich, and it was acted in April and published in May. The early writers on the subject constantly stated that _The Tender Husband_ appeared in 1703, and was followed by _The Lying Lover_, and they then explained that the failure of the latter piece caused Steele to abandon play-writing for many years. In reality, however, _The Lying Lover_ was the earlier play of the two by more than a year.[5] _The Tender Husband_ ran for five nights, but was not a financial success. Addison wrote the Prologue and assisted in the play itself, and to Addison it was dedicated, though, as Steele said, his friend would "be surprised, in the midst of a daily and familiar conversation, with an address which bears so distant an air as a public Dedication." "My purpose in this application is only to show the esteem I have for you, and that I look upon my intimacy with you as one of the most valuable enjoyments of my life." The reception given to the play was such "as to make me think it no improper Memorial of an inviolable friendship." In the last number of the original series of the _Spectator_, Steele afterwards wrote:--"I remember when I finished _The Tender Husband_, I told him there was nothing I so ardently wished as that we might sometime or other publish a work written by us both, which should bear the name of _The Monument_, in memory of our friendship. I heartily wish what I have done here were as honorary to that sacred name, as learning, wit, and humanity render those pieces which I have taught the reader how to distinguish for his. When the play above-mentioned was last acted, there were so many applauded strokes in it which I had from the same hand, that I thought very meanly of myself that I had never publicly acknowledged them."