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Scan 24
FAMOUS VIOLINISTS OF TO-DAY AND YESTERDAY, 1909
18 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 18. See the scan on archive.org.
1His grisly beard was long and thick,
2With which he strung his fiddle-stick;
3For he to horse-tail scorned to owe,
4For what on his own chin did grow."
6Many years later Purcell, the composer, wrote a catch in which the merits of a violin maker named Young, and his son, a violin player, are recorded. The words are as follows:
8"You scrapers that want a good fiddle, well strung,
9You must go to the man that is old while he's Young;
10But if this same Fiddle, you fain would play bold,
11You must go to his son, who'll be Young when he's old.
12There's old Young and young Young, both men of renown,
13Old sells and young plays the best Fiddle in town,
14Young and old live together, and may they live long,
15Young to play an old Fiddle; old to sell a new song."
17In the course of time the English learned to esteem all arts more highly, and in no
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