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William Chappell wrote in Popular Music of the Olden Time (1859), vol. 2, p. 597: "The air is now commonly known as 'Cease, rude Boreas,' from a song which, according to Ritson and others, was written by George Alexander Stevens. It is an amplification of a 'Marine Medley' in Stevens's Songs, Comic and Satyrical, Oxford, 1772." The tune is quoted on p. 598. Songs, Comic and Satyrical seems to have been a well-known book in those days; Claude Simpson (in The British Broadside Ballad and Its Music) mentions Stevens passim.