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The tune usually heard for The Fair Maid Of Islington is indeed Sellenger's Round.

But the broadside directs it to be sung to Sellengers Round or Caper And Firk It (eg The Fair Maid Of Islington - Bodleian). These are two tunes, not alternative names for the same tune.

Caper And Firk It is an alternative tile to the tune named as Under The Greenwood Tree in Simpson BBBM and Chappell PMOT. It is a separate tune from Sellenger's Round. (These words appear in a a version of Under The Greenwood Tree; Oh! how they do firk it, caper and jerk it, Under the greenwood tree)

Shirley Collins recorded The Fair Maid Of Islington to Sellenger's Round. So did June Tabor, but she followed it with a version of Under The Greenwood Tree as it appears in PMOT in 6/8. There is also a 4/4 version of Under The Greenwood Tree, printed in BBBM. Various edition of the Dancing Master printed tunes in both 3 and 4 time.

Mick