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'''WAS NOT THAT PROVOKING.''' AKA - "Now, was that not provoking?" English, Air and Country Dance (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The air is to a song by Thomas Hook, sung at Vauxhall Gardens by Mrs. Wrighten. The lyric was published in Kimber's '''London Magazine; or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer''' (August, 1781, p. 395) and begins:
'''WAS NOT THAT PROVOKING.''' AKA "Now, was that not provoking?" English, Air and Country Dance (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The air is to a song by Thomas Hook, sung at Vauxhall Gardens by Mrs. Wrighten. The lyric was published in Kimber's '''London Magazine; or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer''' (August, 1781, p. 395) and begins:
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''For twice twelve moons had Harry sued,''<br>
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''With down cast looks and sighing,''<br>
For twice twelve moons had Harry sued,<br>
''Yet never caught me in the mood,''<br>
With down cast looks and sighing,<br>
''For softness or complying;''<br>
Yet never caught me in the mood,<br>
'' 'Till told by Phillis of the grove,''<br>
For softness or complying;<br>
''(And she I hop'd was joking.)''<br>
'Till told by Phillis of the grove,<br>
''Her sister Susan heard his love,''<br>
(And she I hop'd was joking.)<br>
''Now was not that provoking?''<br>
Her sister Susan heard his love,<br>
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Now was not that provoking?<br>
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'''The London Budget of Wit; or, A Thousand Notatable Jests''' () printed the following annecdote about the Vauxhall performer:
'''The London Budget of Wit; or, A Thousand Notatable Jests''' () printed the following annecdote about the Vauxhall performer:
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''Mrs. Wrighton being one day rather indesposed with a cold, her husband came into the''
''parlour where she was practising and air for Vauxhall, and observing a phial of physic''
''which she had before said she had taken, he flung it at her head with great fury. A''
''gentleman in the neighbourhood, mentioning the cruelty of it some time afterwards''
''to a friend, he very drily observed--He could not see any great impropriety in the''
''affair; Mrs. W. was singing, and Mr. W. only accompanied her with the viol.''
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Mrs. Wrighton being one day rather indesposed with a cold, her husband came into the
parlour where she was practising and air for Vauxhall, and observing a phial of physic
which she had before said she had taken, he flung it at her head with great fury. A
gentleman in the neighbourhood, mentioning the cruelty of it some time afterwards
to a friend, he very drily observed—He could not see any great impropriety in the
affair; Mrs. W. was singing, and Mr. W. only accompanied her with the viol.
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''Printed sources'': Skillern ('''Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1782'''), p. 1.
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Skillern ('''Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1782'''), p. 1.
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WAS NOT THAT PROVOKING. AKA – "Now, was that not provoking?" English, Air and Country Dance (6/8 time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The air is to a song by Thomas Hook, sung at Vauxhall Gardens by Mrs. Wrighten. The lyric was published in Kimber's London Magazine; or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer (August, 1781, p. 395) and begins:

For twice twelve moons had Harry sued,
With down cast looks and sighing,
Yet never caught me in the mood,
For softness or complying;
'Till told by Phillis of the grove,
(And she I hop'd was joking.)
Her sister Susan heard his love,
Now was not that provoking?

The London Budget of Wit; or, A Thousand Notatable Jests () printed the following annecdote about the Vauxhall performer:

Mrs. Wrighton being one day rather indesposed with a cold, her husband came into the parlour where she was practising and air for Vauxhall, and observing a phial of physic which she had before said she had taken, he flung it at her head with great fury. A gentleman in the neighbourhood, mentioning the cruelty of it some time afterwards to a friend, he very drily observed—He could not see any great impropriety in the affair; Mrs. W. was singing, and Mr. W. only accompanied her with the viol.


Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Skillern (Twenty Four Country Dances for the Year 1782), p. 1.

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