Editing Tweedledum and Tweedledee (section)

==Origins==
The words "Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum" make their first appearance in print as names applied to the composers [[George Frideric Handel]] and [[Giovanni Bononcini]] in "one of the most celebrated and most frequently quoted (and sometimes misquoted) [[epigram]]s", satirising disagreements between  Handel and Bononcini,<ref>{{Citation|last=Knowles|first=Elizabeth KnowlesElizabeth|title=Tweedledum and Tweedledee|date=2006-01-01|url=https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198609810.001.0001/acref-9780198609810-e-7335|work=The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable|publisher=Oxford University Press|language=en|doi=10.1093/acref/9780198609810.001.0001|isbn=978-0-19-860981-0|access-date=2020-08-17|url-access=subscription}}</ref> written by [[John Byrom]] (1692–1763):<ref>C.Edgar Thomas: ''Some Musical Epigrams and Poems'', [[The Musical Times]], November 1, (1915), p. 661.</ref> in his satire, from 1725.

:Some say, compar'd to Bononcini
:That [[wikt:mynheer|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!<ref>John Byrom: Epigram on the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini, ''The Poems'', The Chetham Society 1894–1895. Source: Literature Online.</ref>

Although Byrom is clearly the author of the epigram, the last two lines have also been attributed to [[Jonathan Swift]] and [[Alexander Pope]].<ref name=Opie1997/> While the familiar form of the rhyme was first printed in ''Original Ditties for the Nursery'' (c. 1805), Byrom may have drawn on an existing rhyme.<ref name=Gardner1963>M. Gardner, ed., ''[[The Annotated Alice]]'' (New York: Meridian, 1963).</ref>