Annotation:Peggy I Must Love Thee
X:1 T:Pege I most Love the M:4/4 L:1/8 R:Air B:Bowie Manuscript (c. 1695, f.16v) N:The MS was once in the possession of George Bowie, who entered his N:name with the date 1705 in the front. It is unlikely that Bowie was the author N:of the MS., which, at any rate contains a number of known and suspected N:compositions of John McLachlan, an Edinburgh musician in the 1690's. K:G D2|E2G2G3B|ABAG E3D|E2G2 GABG|A4 G2:| |:d2|B2d2d3e|dedB A3G|B2d2d3e|=fefg e3d| e2g2d2e2|B2g2A3G|E2G2 GABG|A4 G2:| |:B2|GEDE GABG|ABAG EGAE|GBDE GABG|B/A/B/c/ d/c/B/A/ GdBG:| |:BABc d^cde|=fdgB ABAG|BABc dcde|=fdgf eged| gbgd egeB|(e/d/)BGB ABAG|Bdce dgBg|A4 G2:|]
PEGGY, I MUST LOVE THEE. Scottish, Air (4/4 time). D Major: G Mixolydian (Young): A Major (Manson). Standard tuning (fiddle). AABB. Chappell (1859) asserts this tune was appropriated from the English "The Deel Assist the Plotting Whigs," composed by Purcell (from 180 Loyal Songs, 1685), a notion that John Glen (Early Scottish Melodies, 1900) dismisses as absurd. Glen prints the tunes side by side, and there in fact seems little resemblance between them. Playford published the “Peggy, I must love thee” air as “A New Scotch Tune” in his Apollo’s Banquet (fifth edition) of 1687 and Musick’s Handmaid (Part II, 1689, again, “composed by Purcell”). It was also included in [biography:Alexander Stuart
