Like other people, if you watch it, And know no more of stave or crotchet, Than did the primitive Peruvians; Or those old ante-queer-diluvians That lived in the unwashed world with Jubal, Before that dirty blacksmith Tubal Be mine, if I can bear that Gluck! Old Tycho Brahe, and modern Herschel, Had something in them; but who's Purcel? For ought I care, may take Beethoven; I'll throw him Weber in to boot. There's not the splitting of a splinter To choose 'twixt him last named, and Winter. Knew just as much, God knows, as I do. I shall not say a word to grieve 'em, |