Annotation:Daphne and Corydon

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 DAPHNE AND CORYDON. AKA and see "Tell me, Daphne," "Go no more a-rushing." English, Air (4/4 time). D Dorian. Standard tuning (fiddle). ABCD. The air appears in Jane Pickering's Lute Book, the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book and a MS of virginal music that once belonged to Dr. Rimbault. The words to the air have been lost, but Chappell (1859) believes the tune "obviously intended for a dialogue."  Source for notated version:  Printed sources: Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Times), vol. 1, 1859; p. 157.  Recorded sources:

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