New track here is from just one of your own solitary sheet activities, and there was copies of one’s listen John Gay’s The new Begger’s Opera , Air #forty-five, 1728, and Charles Coffey’s This new Merry Cobler , Heavens #8, 1735
Brand new Shepherd sate your off, Brand new fair Housemaid she drew nigh The guy pull’d out his Bagpipes wond’rous nice, And you will play’d Melodiously; The guy play’d her such as for example a tune, He generated this reasonable Housemaid Sing, O! this new Musick of thy Bagpipes sweet, Tends to make most of the my Nervousness in order to Band.
O! Shepherd, O! Shepherd, quoth she, In case the big date manage however, allow they; I hope now play it me o’er once more, To own worry I ought to forget about they, He play’d it once again, As he had done ahead of, And gave which reasonable Maid much happiness, It pleas’d her a lot more about.
My personal Dearest Swain quoth she, A Thousand moments adieu; And you will, if ever We chance to lose my personal Way, Locate it, I will come your way.
Cf. Simpson, BBBM, p. cuatro “Ah Vicious bloody future” [4/4]; Dancing Master song “Merry Milkmaids” [6/4]; Pamelia #75 [4/4]; SMM #373. A smaller track along the same outlines was “The brand new Housemaid of Tottenham” inside Choyce Drollery , 1656 and you can variant type in order to “London area is actually a fine City” for the Tablets to Provide Melancholy , IV, 1719. Continue lendo “From the Merry Singer , 1716, since “The newest Farmer’s Daughter of Merry Wakefield”