Tell me in what happy realm
Valour such as thine to find?”
Thus I said, and envious sighed.
He, who ne’er from battle run,
The mighty warrior, eager cried,—
“Show me how to hold my gun!”
Dr. Johnson wrote the Prologue for the opening of Drury Lane Theatre, in 1747, which was spoken by David Garrick, it commenced with the well known lines:—
“When Learning’s triumph o’er her barbarous foes
First rear’d the stage, immortal Shakespeare rose;