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EPIGRAM ON THE FEUDS BETWEEN HANDEL AND BONONCINI by JOHN BYROM

Poet Analysis

First Line: SOME SAY, COMPARED TO BONONCINI
Last Line: TWIXT TWEEDLEDUM AND TWEEDLEDEE!
Subject(s): BONONCINI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1670-1747); HANDEL, GEORGE FRIDERIC (1685-1759); MUSIC & MUSICIANS;

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!




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