"Woodycock" is also known as "Whirligig". The melody was printed in Playford’s The Dancing Master (1651) and the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book where it is set by Giles Farnaby. Bayard (in his article “Miscellany of Tune Notes”) says it was a Welsh harp and perhaps dance tune, known in England since the 16th century by its appearance in Fitzwilliam. Chappell (1859) says it was the “delight of the men of Dovey” although it is “an inferior copy of ‘Greensleeves’”. Five 17th century Dutch sets appear, under the title “Wooddicock”, in van Duyse's Oude Nederl, Lied, II (1905) and a set appears in Adriaen Valerius’ Nederlandtsche Gedenck-Clanck (1626) under the title “Engels Woddecot”, confirming the tune’s popularity in England. Bayard concludes from a comparison of these variants that the Welsh forms are examples of secondary lengthening and are borrowings from the English or Dutch traditions. The melody was a great favorite in Elizabethan times along with others found in Playford; "Greenwood", "Daphne" and "Heart's Ease", It was also printed in Chappell's Popular Music of the Olden Time (1859) and Sharp's Country Dance Tunes (1909). It was recorded on The English Country Dancing Master by The Telemann Society and Country Capers by The New York Renaissance Band.