Palestrina's violin was made by a great musical instrument maker at Bologna, who had the same lines graven on his lutes, bass-viols, &c.
J. R. (Cork.)
Earwig (Vol. iv., p. 274.).
—The allusion to the word "Earwig" induces me to repeat a charade on it, not without merit, though the last lines appear more responsive to the rhyme than to the fact:—
"My first, if lost, is a disgrace,
Unless misfortunes bear the blame;
My second, though it can't efface,
The dreadful loss, yet hides the shame.
"My whole has life, and breathes the air,
Delights in softness and repose;