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Theme code Index	1H3bH1H7 1117b
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Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	Welsh
Meter/Rhythm	Country Dance
Key/Tonic of	D
Accidental	1 flat
Mode	Aeolian (minor)
Time signature	4/4
History	ENGLAND(Wales)"ENGLAND(Wales)" is not in the list (IRELAND(Munster), IRELAND(Connaught), IRELAND(Leinster), IRELAND(Ulster), SCOTLAND(Argyll and Bute), SCOTLAND(Perth and Kinross), SCOTLAND(Dumfries and Galloway), SCOTLAND(South Ayrshire), SCOTLAND(North East), SCOTLAND(Highland), ...) of allowed values for the "Has historical geographical allegiances" property.
Structure	AABB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:Peter Barnes
Book/Manuscript title	Book:English Country Dance Tunes vol. 2
Tune and/or Page number	p. 24
Year of publication/Date of MS	2005
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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-

Where the bee sucks, there lurk I;
In a Cowslip's bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry;
On a bat's back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily, shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.

"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:--

And I serve the Fairy Queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green:
The Cowslips tall her pensioners be;
In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours:
In those freckles live their saviors. [Quoted from Richard Folkard, Plant Lore, Legends and Lyrics, 1884]

The melody appears in Edward Jones' Musical Relicks of the Welsh Bards (1794).

Barnes (English Country Dance Tunes, vol. 2). 2005; p. 24.

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