"Iantha", also known as "Anthy the Lovely", "Ianthe the Lovely", "Mourn Hapless Caledonia" or "When he holds up his hand" is an English country dance tune in 4/4 time and G Minor. The parts are played AABB. The melody was composed by John Barret (1674?-1735?), as a setting for a lyric by John Glanvill, c. 1705. Barret was a music-master at Christ's Hospital and a pupil of Dr. Blows; he contributed many melodies to period publications. "Iantha" was published in the Dancing Master, 13th edition of 1706 (then published by John Young, heir to the Playford publishing concern). It also appears in the fourth volume of Thomas D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy (1707) and in John Gay's seminal ballad opera The Beggar's Opera (1728) (for the song "When he holds up his hand arraigned for life"). Henry Harington (1727 - 1816) included it in his Songs, Duets and Other Compositions by Doctor Harington of Bath Never Before Published (London, 1800). The tune was used for a song in Thompson's Scots Musical Museum entitled "The tears I shed must ever fall," written by Miss Cranston. It was lightly reworked by Robert Burns for the volume. Another tune with the same name appeared in only the third edition of the Dancing Master. It was printed in Barlow's Complete Country Dances from Playford's Dancing Master (1985), Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion, vol. 4 (1760), Raven's English Country Dance Tunes (1984) and Walsh's Complete Country Dancing-Master, Volume the Fourth (1740).