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'''PHILLIDA FLOUTS ME.''' English, Air (3/8 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBC. The | '''PHILLIDA FLOUTS ME.''' English, Air (3/8 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBC. The 17th century ballad "Phillida flouts me; or, The Country Lovers Complaint" appears in printed broadside sheets (it is in the Roxburghe collection) and in John Watts' '''Musical Miscellany vol. 2''' (1729). The air was the melody for songs in '''The Quaker's Opera''' (1728), '''Love in a Riddle''' (1729), and '''Damon and Phillida''' (1734). Chappell notes that Walton's '''Angler''' (1653) references the tune when the Milkwoman asks, "What song was it, I pray? Was it 'Come Shepherds, deck your heads', or 'As the noon Dulcina rested', or 'Phillida flouts me'?" The tune was also called "Love one another," derived from a song called "The Protestant Exhortation," published by John Playford in 1680, though in a "ruder and therefore probably earlier version of the one given" (in his '''Popular Music of the Olden Times, vol 2'''). | ||
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''O what a plague is love! I cannot bear it,''<br> | ''O what a plague is love! I cannot bear it,''<br> |