This country dance (a round or circle dance for six) was first published in The English Dancing Master (1651). It was retained in subsequent editions through the seventh edition of 1786. The melody is an adaptation of "Mon sir", a basse danse by Tielman Susato published exactly a century earlier in 1551. It was also printed in Sharp's Country Dance Tunes, (1909). It was recorded on Country Capers by The New York Renaissance Band.