Poem by John Byrom

Epigram on Handel and Bononcini

Some say, compar'd 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 Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!

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