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The violin: its famous makers and their imitators, 1909
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1Crowdero making doleful face,
2Like hermit poor in pensive place.
3To dungeon they the wretch commit,
4And the survivor of his feet,
5But the other that had broke the peace
6And head of knighthood, they release,
7Though a delinquent false and forged,
8Yet b'ing a stranger, he's enlarged,
9While his comrade that did not hurt
10Is clapp'd up fast in prison for't;
11So Justice, while she winks at crimes,
12Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
14GEORGE HERBERT'S REFERENCES TO MUSIC.
16George Herbert, poet and divine, said of music,
17"That it did relieve his drooping spirits, compose
18his distracted thoughts, and raised his weary soul
19so far above earth, that it gave him an earnest
20of the joys of heaven before he possessed them."
21His worthy biographer, Izaak Walton, tells us—
22"His chiefest recreation was music, in which
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