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| |f_book_title=English Country Dance Tunes vol. 2 | | |f_book_title=English Country Dance Tunes vol. 2 |
| |f_collector=Peter Barnes, | | |f_collector=Peter Barnes, |
| |f_year=2005 | | |f_year=2005 |
| |f_page=p. 24 | | |f_page=p. 24 |
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| '''COWSLIP'''. Welsh, Country Dance Tune (4/4 time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Cowslip is an herb, sometimes called a Fairy Cup. It is mentioned in Shakespeare in connection with the fairy Ariel-
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| ''Where the bee sucks, there lurk I;''<br>
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| ''In a Cowslip's bell I lie;''<br>
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| ''There I couch when owls do cry;''<br>
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| ''On a bat's back I do fly''<br>
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| ''After summer merrily.''<br>
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| ''Merrily, merrily, shall I live now''<br>
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| ''Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.'' <br>
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| "The fine small crimson drops in the Cowslip's chalice are said to possess the rare virtue of preserving, and even restoring, youthful bloom and beauty; for these ruddy spots are fairy favours, and therefore have enchanted value. Shakespeare says of this flower of the Fays:--
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| ''And I serve the Fairy Queen,''<br>
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| ''To dew her orbs upon the green:''<br>
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| ''The Cowslips tall her pensioners be;''<br>
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| ''In their gold coats spots you see;''<br>
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| ''Those be rubies, fairy favours:''<br>
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| ''In those freckles live their saviors.'' [Quoted from Richard Folkard, '''Plant Lore, Legends and Lyrics''', 1884]<br>
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| The melody appears in Edward Jones' '''Musical Relicks of the Welsh Bards''' (1794).
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| Barnes ('''English Country Dance Tunes''', vol. 2). 2005; p. 24.
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| '''© 1996-2010 Andrew Kuntz. All Rights Reserved.'''
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| Engraver Valerio M. Pelliccioni
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