Hearing the sound of the flute, the “sharp violins” proclaim their jealous pangs. It seems to the speaker the violin is desperate to express the player’s fury and frantic indignation. The instrument cannot be offended, the user or the musician is offended. Therefore, Dryden uses metonymy here.

When the speaker hears its sound, the sound reflects the musician’s depth of pain and height of passion for the fair, disdainful dame. So, the violin player seems to be a victim of unrequited love. Music is the medium using which he expresses his love as well as his pain