Scan 497
The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1884
35 lines. Read by computer on 28 September 2026. Printed page 401. See the scan on archive.org.
1ANECDOTES.
3Sole author of all detriment
4He and his Fiddle underwent.
6When Ralpho thrust himself between,
7He took the blow upon his arm,
8To shield the Knight from further harm,
9And, joining wrath with force, bestow’d
10On th’ wooden member such a load,
11That down it fell, and with it bore
12Crowdero, whom it propp’d before.
13To him the Squire right nimbly run,
14And setting his bold foot upon
15His trunk, thus spoke: "What desp’rate frenzy
16Made thee, thou whelp of sin, to fancy
17Thyself, and all that coward rabble,
18To encounter us in battle able?
19How durst th’, I say, oppose thy curship
20’Gainst arms, authority, and worship,
21And Hudibras or me provoke,
23but first our care
24Must see how Hudibras doth fare."
25This said, he gently rais’d the Knight,
27To rouse him from lethargic dump,
28He tweak’d his nose with gentle thump,
29Knock’d on his breast, as if’t had been
30To raise the spirits lodg’d within;
31They, waken’d with the noise, did fly
32From inward room to window eye,
33And gently op’ning lid, the casement,
34Look’d out, but yet with some amazement.
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