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290 ENGLISH SONG AND BALLAD MUSIC. |
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generally speaking, or when Jack-Frost commonly takes us by the nose, the diversions are within doors, either in exercise or by the fire-side. Dancing is one of the chief exercises—Moll Peatly is never forgot;—this dance stirs the blood and gives the males and females a fellow-feeling for each other's activity, ability, and agility: Cupid always sits in the corner of the room where these diversions are transacting, and shoots quivers full of arrows at the dancers, and makes his own game of them." |
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BOBBING JOE, on BOBBING JOAN. |
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The tune of Bobbing Joe will be found in every edition of The Dancing Master; in MusicKs Delight on the Oithren, 1666; &c.
,It is sometimes entitled Bobbing Joan, as by Carey in his Ballades (1651) ; in Polly, 1729; in The Bay's Opera, 1730; The Mad House, 1737; A Cure for a Scold, 1738; &c. |
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