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Also known as	Fain I Would
Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	English
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	NONE
Mode	Dorian
Time signature	6/4
History
Structure	AB
Editor/Compiler
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Elizabeth Rogers' Virginal Book
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Score ()

X: 1
T:The King's Complaint
M:6/4
L:1/8
R:Air and Jig
S:Elizabeth Rogers' Virginal Book
K:Ddor
d6 f6|e3f e2 ^c4d2|d3e d2 ^c4B2|A6-A4 c2|
c3d c2 B4 A2|G6 A6|F4 F2G3aG2|F6-f4||
F2|E4 D2 E4F2|G6-G4 E2|F4 G2 A4 B2|c6-c4 E2|
F4 G2 A4F2|c6 f6|e4 A2 d3e ^c2|d6-d6||

Tune annotations

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 X: 1
 T:The King's Complaint
-T:Parthenia
+M:6/4
-R:jig
-H:Original instructions:"As at Oxford" Having lost London to Cromwell,
-H:Charles I convened a royalist parliament in Oxford in 1644. A
-H:supporter of Charles I, John Playford continued a royalist at heart and
-H:again served as printer to the king at the restoration of Charles II.
-P:AABB
-M:6/8
 L:1/8
-Q:90
+R:Air and Jig
-F:http://jc.tzo.net/~jc/music/abc/England/Playford/Parthenia_1.abc
+S:Elizabeth Rogers' Virginal Book
-K:GDor
+K:Ddor
-g3 ^f3|g3 b3|a2g g>ag|f3-f2 d/2e/2|f>gf ed2|c3 d3|c2B B>cA|B3-B2||
+d6 f6|e3f e2 ^c4d2|d3e d2 ^c4B2|A6-A4 c2|
-F|F2G A2B|c3-c2 A|d2c B>cd/2e/2|f3-f>gf|ed2 c2B|A3 b3|a2d g>a^f|g3-g2||
+c3d c2 B4 A2|G6 A6|F4 F2G3aG2|F6-f4||
-W:Faine I would, if I could
+F2|E4 D2 E4F2|G6-G4 E2|F4 G2 A4 B2|c6-c4 E2|
-W:By any means obteine
+F4 G2 A4F2|c6 f6|e4 A2 d3e ^c2|d6-d6||
-W:Leave of my best
-W:Masters to sit with them againe
-W:But my blest Parliment
-W:Will never give consent
-W:They say tis such a thinge
-W:For the worst of them's a Kinge
-W:Wee will rule still
-W:In spight of Cavalieres
-W:O brave house of Commons
-W:O brave house of Peeres
-W:Religion you have pull'd downe
-W:And soe you have the crowne
-W:My laws & Kingdome too
-W:I think the Devill's in you
-W:Else you'll not endure
-W:Such a constant flood
-W:All of childrens teares
-W:And theire dead Fathers blood ...
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