Annotation:Gamesters and Lawyers

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 GAMESTERS AND LAWYERS (ARE JUGGLERS ALIKE), THE. AKA and see "When Once I Lay with Another Man's Wife," "King's Delight (The)." English, Air (6/8 time). F Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). The air appears under this title as Air 6 in John Gay's Beggar's Opera of 1729, set to the tune of "When Once I Lay with Another Man's Wife." It is also in John Playford's Musick's Handmaid of 1678. Lawyers were held in as poor esteem in Gay's time as now-days.  Source for notated version:  Printed sources:  Recorded sources:

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