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Also known as "The Woods So Wild", "Will Yow Walke the Woods soe Wylde" or "The Huntsman"
this tune was published by Playford in the first edition of The English Dancing Master
(1651) and retained through the 8th, published in 1690. With the 5th edition
of 1675 the alternate title "Huntsman" was added. The melody was a great
favorite in Elizabethan times along with others found in Playford;
"Heart's Ease",
"Daphne" and
"Woodycock".
The tune was used in two works of the late Tudor era: My Ladye Nevells Booke and the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book It was also printed in Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909). It was recorded on the lute on The Woods So Wild by Julian Bream. |