Annotation:When the kine had given a pail full
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WHEN THE KINE HAD GIVEN A PAIL FULL. AKA - "Modest Maids Delight (The)," "Tom and Doll." English, Scottish; Air (whole time). G Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). "When the kine had given a pail full" is the first line of a song of seduction by Thomas D'Urfey, printed in his Pills to Purge Melancholy vol. 2 (1719) under the title "Tom and Doll; Or, The Modest Maid's Delight." The first two stanzas go:
When the Kine had given a Pail full,
And the Sheep came bleating home;
Doll who knew it would be healthful,
Went a walking with young Tom:
Hand in hand, Sir,
O’er the Land, Sir,
As they walked to and fro;
Tom made jolly Love to Dolly,
But was answer’d, No, no, no, no, no, &c.
Faith, says Tom, the time is fitting,
We shall never get the like;
You can never get from Knitting,
Whilst I’m digging in the Dike:
Now we’re gone too,
And alone too,
No one by to see or know;
Come, come, Dolly, prithee shall I,
Still she answered, No, no, no, no, &c.
The song was popular and often printed in songsters and collections of the early 18th century, albeit usually under the title "When the kine had given a pail full."
