Enter Fiddles playing, Mr. Bearjest and Diana dancing; Bredwel, Noisey, &c. L. Ful.

Lovers Quarrels are soon Adjusted; I'll to 'em, unfold the Riddle, and bring 'em backtake no care, but go in and dress you for the Ball; Mopsophil has Habits which your Lovers sent to put on: the Fiddles, Treat, and all are prepar'd.

I tell you, Sirrah, I heard the noise of Fiddles.

Where have you hid the Fiddles, you Rogue? Scar.

Fiddles, Sir! Doct.

Ay, Fiddles, Knave.

Fiddles, Sir!Where? Doct.

Fiddles, Sir! Sure 'twas Wind got into your Head, and whistled in your Ears, riding so late, Sir. Doct.

After his death the ballad-singers, with many fiddles and the like, came again and gave him a fine wake, each adding to the merriment whatever he knew in the way of rann, tale, old saw, or quaint rhyme.

He was too far away to hear the fiddles.

Neither the harp, nor the sackbut, nor the psaltery, nor the dulcimer will they have; neither organs nor bass fiddles will they countenance; neither vocalists nor instrumentalists, nor tune forks of any size or weight, will they patronise.

The fiddles were on the tables for nearly a week: but they did not prevent more than one of us finding his dinner suddenly in his lap instead of his stomach.

Then, for her further excuse (if it be needed), Don Sanchez brought back good tidings of her father,how he was neatly lodged near the Cherry garden, where he could hear the birds all day and the fiddles all night, with abundance of good entertainment, etc.

She will have a whole ox roasted before the house by midday, and barrels of strong ale set up, that there may be meat and drink for all who choose to take it; and at four she will have a supper of geese, turkeys, and plum puddings for all her tenants, their wives and sweethearts, with fiddles afterwards for dancing, etc.

In conformity, therefore, with this last truth, the small fiddles which Dancing-masters carry in their pockets, are at this day called kits.

His friends took it upon themselves to celebrate the joyful occasion, rare in the experience of at least one of the parties, by getting very high on Irish Ike's whiskey and serenading the newly-married couple with fish-horns, horse-fiddles, and other improvised musical instruments.

At one end was a sort of raised platform, upon which were two men, with fiddles, who, from time to time, played lively airs, to which those at the tables kept time by stamping their feet.

"The truth is," he adds, "the audience are grown weary of continued melancholy scenes; and I dare venture to prophesy, that few tragedies, except those in verse, shall succeed in this age, if they are not lightened with a course of mirth; for the feast is too dull and solemn without the fiddles."

But it is chiefly tiresome, because it is unnatural; and, in respect of propriety, ought no more to be relieved by the introduction of a set of comic scenes, independent of those of a mournful complexion, than the sombre air of a funeral should be enlivened by a concert of fiddles.

There was a bit orchestra, waitin', wi' awfu' funny looking instrumentssawed off fiddles, I mind, syne a' the sound must be concentrated to gae through the horn.

Fiddles in the Cumberlands, by Lela McDowell Blankenship & Amanda McDowell.

The Doctor enters in wrath, vowing he has heard fiddles.

Us was 'lowed to sing, play de fiddles, an' have a good time.

Law, I heerd many as three fiddles goin' in dat house many a time, an' I kin jes see her li'l old fair han's now, playin' jes as fast as lightnin' a chune[FN: tune] 'bout [HW: Song] 'My father he cried, my mother she cried, I wasn' cut out fer de army.

and everybody who fiddles or pipes a song or composes is enraptured over the expression.