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FY, NAY, PRITHEE JOHN [2]. English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABBCC. The melody appears in Henry Playford's Apollo's Banquet, sixth edition (London, 1690), seventh edition (London, 1693), and his Dancing Master, 12th edition (London, 1703), 13th edition (1706) and 14th edition (1709).

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Barlow (Compleat Country Dance Tunes from Playford's Dancing Master), 1985; p. 114.

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