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|f_annotation='''OF ALL COMFORTS.''' AKA - "[[Of all comforts I miscarry'd]]," "[[White Chapel Mount]]." English, Air and Country Dance Tune (cut time). A Minor (Young): D Minor (Oswald). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The country dance tune and dance instructions appeared in all four editions of London publisher John Young's '''Second Volume of the Dancing Master''', produced from 1710-1728. Young was the successor to the Playford publishing concerns in the city. "Of All Comfort" was also printed by rival publishers (John) Walsh & Hare in their own '''Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master''' (1710). The song "Of all comforts I miscarry'd" was printed by poet and songwriter [[wikipedia:Thomas_D'Urfey]] in his '''Pills to Purge Melancholy vol. ii''' (1719-20, p. 137), under the title "The Curtain Lecture, a New Song" in the form of a dialogue. The tune was used for Air V ("Of the states in life so various") in Cibber's ballad opera '''The Devil to Pay''', and again in '''Momus turned Fabulist.''' Alfred Moffat and Frank Kidson, when they printed the tune in their '''Minstrelsy of England''' (1901), deemed D'Urfey's original words "totally unfit for present day singing" (which usually means they were explicit or suggestive), and wrote a new words for the song beginning "While o'erhead the storm is howling." | |f_annotation='''OF ALL COMFORTS.''' AKA - "[[Of all comforts I miscarry'd]]," "[[White Chapel Mount]]." English, Air and Country Dance Tune (cut time). A Minor (Young): D Minor (Oswald). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The country dance tune and dance instructions appeared in all four editions of London publisher John Young's '''Second Volume of the Dancing Master''', produced from 1710-1728. Young was the successor to the Playford publishing concerns in the city. "Of All Comfort" was also printed by rival publishers (John) Walsh & Hare in their own '''Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master''' (1710). The song "Of all comforts I miscarry'd" was printed by poet and songwriter [[wikipedia:Thomas_D'Urfey]] in his '''Pills to Purge Melancholy vol. ii''' (1719-20, p. 137), under the title "The Curtain Lecture, a New Song"<ref>The title refers to the curtains that once surrounded a four poster bed, while a 'curtain lecture' was a scolding from a wife to her husband, after they have gone to bed. </ref> in the form of a dialogue. The tune was used for Air V ("Of the states in life so various") in Cibber's ballad opera '''The Devil to Pay''', and again in '''Momus turned Fabulist.''' Alfred Moffat and Frank Kidson, when they printed the tune in their '''Minstrelsy of England''' (1901), deemed D'Urfey's original words "totally unfit for present day singing" (which usually means they were explicit or suggestive), and wrote a new words for the song beginning "While o'erhead the storm is howling." | ||
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OF ALL COMFORTS. AKA - "Of all comforts I miscarry'd," "White Chapel Mount." English, Air and Country Dance Tune (cut time). A Minor (Young): D Minor (Oswald). Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The country dance tune and dance instructions appeared in all four editions of London publisher John Young's Second Volume of the Dancing Master, produced from 1710-1728. Young was the successor to the Playford publishing concerns in the city. "Of All Comfort" was also printed by rival publishers (John) Walsh & Hare in their own Second Book of the Compleat Country Dancing-Master (1710). The song "Of all comforts I miscarry'd" was printed by poet and songwriter wikipedia:Thomas_D'Urfey in his Pills to Purge Melancholy vol. ii (1719-20, p. 137), under the title "The Curtain Lecture, a New Song"[1] in the form of a dialogue. The tune was used for Air V ("Of the states in life so various") in Cibber's ballad opera The Devil to Pay, and again in Momus turned Fabulist. Alfred Moffat and Frank Kidson, when they printed the tune in their Minstrelsy of England (1901), deemed D'Urfey's original words "totally unfit for present day singing" (which usually means they were explicit or suggestive), and wrote a new words for the song beginning "While o'erhead the storm is howling."
"White Chapel Mount" is given as an alternate title in both Young's and Walsh's volumes. The mount was a high place within the bounds of London that had been the site of a mill and some houses, albeit all went to ruins during the English Civil War of the early 1640's. The mount was fortified with defense works to help guard London from the threat of Royalist invasion, but these were pulled down after hostilities ended. After the Great Fire of 1666, ruble and debris from the fire and rebuilding was dumped on the site of the old fortifications. In the 1750's a hospital was constructed near the site, and, in 1808 the height was levelled.
- ↑ The title refers to the curtains that once surrounded a four poster bed, while a 'curtain lecture' was a scolding from a wife to her husband, after they have gone to bed.