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The violin : some account of that leading instrument and its most eminent professors, from its earliest date to the present time : with hints to amateurs, anecdotes, etc., 1852
20 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 396. See the scan on archive.org.
1Having thus made ourselves familiar with the street fiddler, and thereby, as it were, "sounded the very base-string of humility," may we not be fairly supposed to have reached the fag-end of our subject? Whilst on this lower level, however—or, in what may be termed the Vale of Cacophony—I cannot conclude, without offering to the patience of my kind readers two more scraps of verse, wherein I have sought to exhibit a pair of specimens that belong, equally with the poor street fiddler, to the class of—those that might be dispensed with:
3EPIGRAM
5ON AN UNFORTUNATE MAN, AND BAD FIDDLE.
7Though Dibble is feeble in all that he's at,
8 Few fools ever fondled a failure before, so.
9In love, as in music, he stands for a flat—
10 (For his Fanny is false, and his fiddle is more so),
11While he still ignoreth—what none can dispute—
12That his suit's out of tune, and his tune doesn't suit!
14ANOTHER, ON ANOTHER BAD FIDDLE.
16When Screechley on that noise-box harshly grates,
17 What, what's the supposition that must follow?
18This—that by some odd shifting of the Fates,
19'Tis Marsyas' turn to flay alive Apollo!
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