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Familiar Quotations

Part 3 / Book 15 / Act 5 — JOHN BYROM.

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1691-1763.

'On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini'.[13]

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.

The Astrologer.

As clear as a whistle.

Epigram on Two Monopolists.

Bone and skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it; But be it known to Skin and Bone That Flesh and Blood can't bear it.

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