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Tune Annotations:	'''MELANCHOLY NYMPH.''' AKA and see "Faithful maid (The)," "'Twas when the sea was roaring." The air was composed and set by the classical composer George Freidric Handel (1685-1759) for John Gay's '''The What d'ye Call it?''' (1715), and was adapted for Air 28 in Gay's later work '''The Beggar's Opera''' (for Lucy's song "[[How cruel are the traitors]]." It appears in '''Calliope''' (1746, part 1, No. 168), John Sadler's '''Muses Delight''' (1754, p. 176), and similar songsters, and was printed on single sheets. [[File:handel.jpg\|200px\|thumb\|left\|George F. Handel]]
Source for notated version:
Printed sources:	Raven ('''English Country Dance Tunes'''), 1984; p. 58 (as " 'Twas when the sea was roaring").
Recorded sources:	Avie AV2102, Emma Curtis - "Calliope: Volume the First" (2006). Avie 2153, Brook Street Band, Sally Bruce-Payne, Nicki Kennedy- "Handel's English Cantatas" (2008).
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