There's a fair amount of good information in C. M. Simpson's 'The British Broadside Ballad and It's Music', 1966. Simpson gives versions of 1670 and 1775, both of which are also given as ABC's on my website (tunes- B315 and 316). There's also a lot of nonsense about the tune which Thomas Moore used for "Believe my if all those endearing young charms". In Scotland it was the tune for "I loe nae a laddie but ane", SMM #267. The tune was also used in the 18th century for "Happy Dick Dawson". It was apparetly originially for a song in Davenant's play "The Rivals" acted in 1664. Davenant's song was expanded to a broadside ballad "The Slighted Maid: or, the Pining Lover" listed in my broadside ballad index.
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