Painter can’t paint him as he wields The lance with grace: There ne’er forgotten was before So little in a manly face; That thou should’st love him is to me Not strange; in him thine eyes delight; Thy love I grudge not unto thee.” When thus was youthful love allowed Between the twain, Without a bar their love to cross Their hearts might constant aye remain. “Now cousin mine,” the maiden spake, “For mine own love before the world The heir of Graharz may I take.” Johnson and Garrick.[50] _AN UNPUBLISHED JEU D’ESPRIT._ BY SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. _PART I._ JOHNSON AGAINST GARRICK. JOHNSON AND SIR J. REYNOLDS. REYNOLDS.--Let me alone, I’ll draw him out (_aside_). I have been thinking this morning, Dr. Johnson, on a matter which has puzzled me very much; it is a subject that I daresay has often passed in your thoughts, and though _I_ cannot, I daresay _you_ have made up your mind upon it. JOHNSON.--Tilly fally, what is all this preparation? what is all this weighty matter? R.--Why, it is a weighty matter; this subject I have been thinking upon, is Predestination, and Free will, two things, which I cannot reconcile together, for the life of me. In my opinion, Dr. Johnson, free will and fore knowledge cannot be reconciled. J.--Sir, it is not of very great importance, what your opinion is upon such a question. R.--But I meant only, Dr. J., to know your opinion. J.--No, sir, you meant no such thing; you meant only to show these gentlemen that you are not the man they took you to be, but that you think of high matters sometimes, and that you may have the credit of having it said, that you held an argument with Sam Johnson, on predestination, and free will; a subject of that magnitude, to have engaged the attention of the world, to have perplexed the wisdom of man, for these 2,000 years; a subject on which the fallen angels who _had not yet lost all their original brightness_ find themselves _in wandering mazes lost_. That such a subject could be discussed in the levity of convivial conversation, is a degree of absurdity beyond what is easily conceivable. R.--It is so, as you say, to be sure; I talked once to our friend Garrick on this subject, but I remember we could make nothing of it. J.--Oh noble pair! R.--Garrick was a clever fellow, Dr. J.; Garrick, take him altogether, was certainly a very great man. J.--Garrick, sir, may be a great man in your opinion, as far as I know, but he was not so in mine; little things are great to little men. R.--I have heard you say, Dr. Johnson---- J.--Sir, you never heard me say, David Garrick was a great man. You may have heard me say that Garrick was a good repeater of other men’s words,--words put into his mouth by other men; this makes but a faint approach towards being a great man. R.--But take Garrick upon the whole; now in regard to conversation----