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'''ABEL DRUGGER'''.  English, Country Dance Tune (cut time). G Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABBCC. The melody also appears in John Johnson’s '''200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 8''' (London, 1758). Abel Drugger was a character in Ben Jonson’s play The Alchemist, a role popularised in the mid-1740’s by David Garrick (1717-1779), the finest British actor of the 18th century. 
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''Printed sources'': Thompson ('''Compleat Collection of 200 Favourite Country Dances, vol. 1'''), 1757; No. 147.
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