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Thread #94621   Message #1833056
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
12-Sep-06 - 07:19 PM
Thread Name: Origins:Yorkshire Damsel/Damosel [Foggy Foggy Dew]
Subject: RE: Origins: Antedating The Foggy, Foggy Dew ==> 1689
Posted here long ago by the late Bruce Olson.

Foggy, Foggy Dew (Bogulmaroo)  (original thread).

The Fright'ned Yorkshire Damosel, Or, Fear Dispears'd by Pleasure  (DT file, with collapsed formatting).

Which 'Pepys Ballad Collection Facsimile' is that? You don't give any publication details. I can confirm, though, that a facsimile can be seen online at  The Pepys Ballads (University of California-Santa Barbara, prepared from photographic images of the collection held at the Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge):

THE/ Fright'ned York-shire Damosel,/ OR,/ Fears Dispers'd by Pleasure.

I'm not sure why Wardroper felt the need to change the way a few words were spelled (the original is perfectly easy to understand); equally, "thurg" misses the point that applying modern, subjective aesthetic judgements to historical material is anachronistic and irrelevant.

For a detailed discussion of the song-family and its origins, see Robert S Thomson, 'The Frightful Foggy Dew' in Folk Music Journal, London: EFDSS, Volume 4 Number 1 (1980).