Twangdillo, the fiddler, in Somerville’s Hobbinol, a burlesque poem in three cantos. Twangdillo had lost one leg and one eye by a stroke of lightning on the banks of the Ister, but was still merry-hearted.
He tickles every string to every note;
He bends his pliant neck, his single eye
Twinkles with joy, his active stump beats time.
Hobbinol, or The Rural Games, i. (1740).
Tweedledum and Tweedledee. In the time of George III. the musical world was divided between the parties holding by the German Händel and the Italian Bononcini. The prince of Wales supported Händel, the duke of Marlborough stood for Bononcini.
Some say, compared to Bononcini,
That mynherr Handel’s but a ninny;
Others aver that he to Handel
Is scarcely fit to hold a candle;