A fiddle, flute, and a bass-violin,

Surrounded by a motley group, are playing

That well-adapted tune—“Haste to the wedding.”

Lord Arnold beckon’d to the “master man;”[252]

Whose hurry overturn’d the liquor-can!

His great misfortune soon is set aright,

By something pleasing to the fiddler’s sight;

For which he bowed: but, quickly turning ’round,

He tripp’d, and, falling sideways on the ground,

Smash’d in the “belly” of his instrument;