The Friar and the Nun
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Transcription: by Darryl D. Bush
"The Friar and the Nun", also known as "Wiltshire Wedding", "The London 'Prentice",<br> "All in/on a Misty Mornin", "Beggar Got a Beadle" is an English country dance tune in cut time and<br> D Major.<br> The tune appears in Playford's English Dancing Master (1650), Musick's Delight on the<br> Cithren (1666), Pills to Purge Melancholy and many ballad operas, including John Gay's Beggar's<br> Opera (1728) (where it appears under the title "All in a Misty Morning," which is the first<br> line of a song called "The Wiltshire Wedding"). John Walsh published it in all editions of his<br> Complete Country Dancing-Master (1718, 1731, 1754). <br> The ballad "The Friar and the Nun" dates back at least to 1542, where it is alluded to in<br> Archbishop Udal's translation of the Apophthegmes of Erasmus. Versions of the melody were also<br> quite popular in Ireland, especially with the old harpers and their audiences. Variations were<br> set by the famous harper Lyons in 1698, according to the collector Edward Bunting, who himself<br> had the tune from one of the last of the ancient harpers, a man named Hempson, in 1796.<br> It was printed Barlow's Complete Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master (1985),<br> Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time vol. 1 (1859), Raven's English Country Dance Tunes<br> (1984). Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909), Walsh's Complete Country Dancing-Master, Volume the<br> Fourth (1740).<br>
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