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Five Drunken Maidens
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The above mentioned try an enthusiastic unpublished text off a great MS backup, c 1740-50, on National Collection out of Scotland, NLS MS 6299. No matter if a little defective, We decided not to resist the newest hitting next verse with the variation, and therefore depicts just how afterwards products were modified.
A good. L. Off his cards it appears that he first got it club singers, perhaps collated having a great chapbook of around 1760, Pleasant Phyllis’s Garland . The guy cannot say were he got his song, which is vaguely just like the you to definitely right here. Lloyd’s type has many lesser verbal distinctions, however, his past verse is significantly more and i append they following main text message.
The latest track has already started published on the Northumberland Vickers’ manuscript out of c 1770-5, by the Matt Seattle from the Great Northern Song Publication , #527, 1987, however, I prefer yet another content hence varies a little into the time from inside the the past 50 % of the 2 center methods of each filter systems. It will be the history tune in a novel distinct song and you may dance musical, Folger Shakespeare Library MS V.b. 410, which is, within my estimation, around 1760-dos. The 2 current audio on it is dated c 1760 into the BUCEM, Arne’s “Jessy” in the Seller away from Venice , and James Oswald’s “The new housemaid that’s created for like and you can me personally.” The first copy of your own tune, you to definitely You will find maybe not viewed, is within Book 4 Femme Philippin away from Walsh’s Caledonian Country Dances , c 1744.
The new Four Drunken Maidens
Four drunken Maidens originated in the brand new Area regarding Wight, Intoxicated of Friday early morning till Saturday-night; Whenever Saturday night came they’d perhaps not big date, While the four drunken Maidens it pushed new jug regarding.