Courtiers Courtiers

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Theme code Index	3b3b51 3b1H3b1
Also known as	Courtiers courtiers think it no harm, King of Poland (The)
Composer/Core Source
Region	England
Genre/Style	English
Meter/Rhythm	Air/Lament/Listening Piece
Key/Tonic of	E
Accidental	1 sharp
Mode	Aeolian (minor)
Time signature	6/8
History
Structure	AAB
Editor/Compiler	Biography:William Chappell
Book/Manuscript title	Book:Popular Music of the Olden Times vol. 2
Tune and/or Page number	p. 60
Year of publication/Date of MS	1859
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COURTIERS, COURTIERS (THINK IT NO HARM). AKA and see "King of Poland (The)." English, Air (6/8 or 6/4 time). E Minor (Gay, Howe): D Minor (Chappell). Standard tuning (fiddle). AB. The air appears in John Gay's Beggar's Opera (1729) under the title "Man may escape from rope and gun," and in Playford's Dancing Master (1686) as "The King of Poland." It is also on early half-sheet music and broadsides and in Thomas D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy (London, 1719), under the title "The Beggar's Delight." It begins:

Courtiers, courtiers, think it no harm,
That silly poor swains in love should be;
For love lies hid in rags all torn,
As well as silks and bravery:
For the beggar he loves his lass as dear
As he that hath thousands, thousands, thousands,
He that hath thousand pounds a year.

Printed sources: Chappell (Popular Music of the Olden Times), vol. 2, 1859; p. 60. Howe (1000 Jigs and Reels), c. 1867; p. 166. Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 58.

X:1
T:Courtiers Think it No Harm
M:6/8
L:1/8
R:Air
Z:AK/Fiddler's Companion
K:Emin
G2E G2A | B>cB E2F | G>AB e2B | G2 F/E/ E3 :| 
e/f/ |g>fe ^d2e | e2E E2F | G>AB d2B | 
d2B A2F | G>AB e2B | G2F/E/ E2 ||