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Thread #48931   Message #819542
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
05-Nov-02 - 09:49 PM
Thread Name: Tune Add: Missing DT tunes - Part NINE
Subject: RE: Tune Add: Missing DT tunes - Part NINE
FOXOUT3   THE FALSE FOX  14th or 15th century lyric: no surviving music.

FOGGDEW6   FOGGY, FOGGY DEW   The DT file has been given an anachronistic title. This is presumably intended to emphasise the fact that it belongs to the English Foggy Dew family, but I can't help feeling that it was a mistake; akin, for example, to filing Lord Franklin as Bob Dylan's Dream. The proper title is The Fright'ned Yorkshire Damosel, Or, Fear Dispers'd by Pleasure. The tune specified in the broadside from which it was taken was I met with a Country Lass, which has not survived under that name; however, Claude M. Simpson (The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music, 1966) points out that it may be an alternate title for Aye, Marry, and Thank You Too; of which he prints two examples, one from Youth's Delight on the Flageolet (9th edn., c.1690) and another, rather smoother, from the ballad-opera Robin Hood (1730). I've made a midi from the former, which is closer in date to the broadside. The usual caveat: this is a guess only, though an educated one .

DOCTOR4   THE FOUR ABLE PHYSICANS   No source for this is credited beyond a record by Oscar Brand. It was almost certainly taken by Brand from Thomas D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy (edition of 1719-20), where it appeared as The Tunbridge Doctors. The set there is considerably longer and, since there are also some minor errors in the DT file, I may as well post the whole thing: The Tunbridge Doctors.