Scan 406
The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
12 lines. Read by computer on 28 September 2026. Printed page 318. See the scan on archive.org.
1WITHERS, Edward. Son of the above. Wardour Street, Soho. Was instructed by John Lott.
2YOUNG, London, about 1728. Lived in St. Paul's Churchyard. Purcell has immortalized father and son in the first volume of his Catches.
4"You scrapers that want a good Fiddle well strung,
5You must go to the man that is old while he's Young;
6But if this same Fiddle you fain would play bold,
7You must go to his son, who'll be Young when he's old.
8There's old Young and young Young, both men of renown,
9Old sells, and young plays, the best Fiddles in town;
10Young and old live together, and may they live long,
11Young, to play an old Fiddle; old, to sell a new song."
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