For 'tis great grace, when statesmen straight
Dispatch a friend, let others wait.
His grisly beard was long and thick,
With which he strung his fiddle-stick;
For he to horse-tail scorned to owe,
For what on his own chin did grow."
Many years later Purcell, the composer, wrote a catch in which the merits of a violin maker named Young, and his son, a violin player, are recorded. The words are as follows:
"You scrapers that want a good fiddle, well strung,
You must go to the man that is old while he's Young;