The tune and country dance directions ("For four") were first published under this title in the first edition of The English Dancing Master (1651), however, the melody clearly predates Playford’s volume. Samuel Bayard (in his article “A Miscellany of Tune Notes”) found an earlier version of the melody in the Skene Manuscript (c. 1615) under the title “Ostend”. Early versions also appear in Adriaen Valerius's Nederlandtsche Gedenck-Clanck (1626, as “La Boree”), the Starter’s Friesche Lust-Hof (1621) and the Thysius Lute Book (c. 1600); the first two works refer to the tune as a bourrée. It has been sourced to France, where, for example, it appears in a lute collection by Nicolas Vallet entitled Secret des Muses (1615), as “Bouree d’Avignon”. It was also printed in Karpeles & Schofield's A Selection of 100 English Folk Dance Airs (1951) and Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909). It was recorded by The Telemann Society on The English Country Dancing Master (1959), Hesperus on Early American Roots (1997) and The Baltimore Consort on A Trip to Kilburn (1996).