1691-1763.

'On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini'.[13]

Some say, compared to Bononcini,
That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny;
Others aver that he to Handel
Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.
Strange all this difference should be 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.


The Astrologer.

As clear as a whistle.


Epigram on Two Monopolists.

Bone and skin, two millers thin,
Would starve us all, or near it;
But be it known to Skin and Bone
That Flesh and Blood can't bear it.


BISHOP BERKELEY.