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ASTROPE WELLS. English, Country Dance Tune (9/4 time). D Minor. Standard tuning (fiddle). AB, AABB. The melody and dance instructions were first printed by Henry Playford in the second supplement to the 7th edition of the Dancing Master (1688). It was retained in subsequent editions of the Dancing Master, through the 18th and last edition of 1728 (published by John Young, heir to the Playford publishing concerns). Dance and tune were also printed by John Walsh in his Compleat Country Dancing Master (1718, and later editions of 1731 and 1754).

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