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MISS POULTNEY’S DELIGHT. English, Jig. G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. The melody is unique to Charles and Samuel Thompson’s Compleat Collection, vol. 3 (London, 1773), although dance instructions and the tune were earlier published in Thompson’s Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1768.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Thompson (Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 3), 1773; No. 164.

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