Handel’s government of the fingers was somewhat despotic; for, upon
Cuzzoni’s (a famous singer of his time) insolently refusing to sing his
admirable air, _Falsa Imagine_, in Otho, he told her, that he always
knew she was a _very devil_; but that he should now let _her_ know, in
his turn, that he was _Belzebub_, the prince of the devils; and then,
taking her up by the waist, swore, if she did not _immediately_ obey
his orders, he would throw her out of the window.