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LONDON LADIES. English, Air. The air appears in John Gay's Beggar's Opera (1729, Air XXXIII) under the title "If you at an office solicit your due." The tune is also in Playford's Dancing Master, Henry Playford's Apollo's Banquet (1690) and different editions of D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy. The first lines of the song go:

Ladies of London both wealthy and fair,
Whom every town fop is pursuing.

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Raven (English Country Dance Tunes), 1984; p. 60 (facsimile of the Beggar's Opera printing).

Recorded sources:

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