improprieties, while he had breath to defend, or power to protect them. If
I had had sons to send to College," added he, "Jordan should have been
their tutor."

Sir William Browne, the physician, who lived to a very extraordinary age,
and was in other respects an odd mortal, with more genius than
understanding, and more self sufficiency than wit, was the only person who
ventured to oppose Mr. Johnson when he had a mind to shine by exalting his
favourite university, and to express his contempt of the Whiggish notions
which prevail at Cambridge. HE did it once, however, with surprising
felicity. His antagonist having repeated with an air of triumph the famous
epigram written by Dr. Trapp--

"Our royal master saw, with heedful eyes,
The wants of his two universities:
Troops he to Oxford sent, as knowing why
That learned body wanted loyalty:
But books to Cambridge gave, as well discerning
That that right loyal body wanted learning."

Which, says Sir William, might well be answered thus:--

"The King to Oxford sent his troop of horse,
For Tories own no argument but force;
With equal care to Cambridge books he sent,
For Whigs allow no force but argument."

Mr. Johnson did him the justice to say it was one of the happiest
extemporaneous productions he ever met with, though he once comically
confessed that he hated to repeat the wit of a Whig urged in support of