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WHAT SHALL I DO TO SHOW HOW MUCH I LOVE HER? English, Air. D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). The air is by the English composer Henry Purcell, from his History of Dioclesian. It was also published by John Gay in his The Beggar's Opera (1729, where it appears as "Virgins are like the fair flower"), and in D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. IV.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: James Oswald (Caledonian Pocket Companion, vol. 4), 1760; p. 1. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 51.

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-'''WHAT SHALL I DO TO SHOW HOW MUCH I LOVE HER?''' English, Air. The air is by the English composer Henry Purcell, from his '''History of Dioclesian.''' It was also published by John Gay in his '''The Beggar's Opera''' (1729, where it appears as "Virgins are like the fair flower"), and in D'Urfey's '''Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. IV'''.
+'''WHAT SHALL I DO TO SHOW HOW MUCH I LOVE HER?''' English, Air. D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). The air is by the English composer Henry Purcell, from his '''History of Dioclesian.''' It was also published by John Gay in his '''The Beggar's Opera''' (1729, where it appears as "Virgins are like the fair flower"), and in D'Urfey's '''Pills to Purge Melancholy, Vol. IV'''.
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