Annotation:When William at Eve

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WHEN WILLIAM AT EVE (Nuair Uilliam air tratnona). English, Air (6/8 time). C Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. "When William at Eve" was composed by English composer and songwright wikipedia:William_Shield and is Phoebe's aria for his opera Rosina (1782). It begins:

When William at eve meets me down at the stile,
⁠How sweet is the Nightingale’s song;
Of the days I forgot all my labour and toil,
⁠Whilst the moon plays yon branches among.

By her beams without I hear him complain,
⁠And beleive every word of his song;
You know not how sweet ’tis to love the dear swain,
⁠Whilst the Moon plays yon branches among.

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