Tuesday, July 02, 2024

 

Bumfiddle

Horace Walpole, letter to the Countess of Ossory (August 9, 1773):
Every scrap of Latin Lord Edgecumbe heard at the Encænia at Oxford he translated ridiculously; one of the themes was Ars Musica: he Englished it, Bumfiddle.
Hat tip: Bill Vallicella.

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