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These was an enthusiastic unpublished text away from a great MS copy, Tjekkisk kvinder dating i Amerika c 1740-fifty, on the National Library from Scotland, NLS MS 6299. Even in the event slightly bad, We didn’t combat new hitting 4th verse associated with type, and that depicts how afterwards types were modified.
A great. L. Of his notes it would appear that he first got it pub singers, maybe collated which have a good chapbook of around 1760, Lovely Phyllis’s Garland . He doesn’t say have been the guy got their tune, that’s vaguely much like the one here. Lloyd’s version has some slight verbal variations, but their last verse is a lot more and i also append they adopting the fundamental text message.
The newest track has been published on Northumberland Vickers’ manuscript away from c 1770-5, of the Matt Seattle on Great Northern Tune Publication , #527, 1987, but I take advantage of an alternative duplicate and that changes quite within the timing in the the final half the two middle measures of every strain. It will be the last tune in a novel distinct tune and you may moving tunes, Folger Shakespeare Collection MS V.b. 410, which is, during my quote, around 1760-dos. The two newest audio with it are old c 1760 from inside the BUCEM, Arne’s “Jessy” about Provider out of Venice , and James Oswald’s “The housemaid which is designed for love and you will myself.” The earliest copy of your own tune, that I have not seen, is within Publication cuatro out of Walsh’s Caledonian Nation Dances , c 1744.
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