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WHAT CARE I FOR WHOM SHE BE? English, Jig and Country Dance (6/8 time). B Flat Major. Standard tuning (fiddle). AAB. The title of the country dance, "What care I for whom she be?", is also the name of a song printed in Calliope, or the Musical Miscellany (1788, Song 211). The words are that of a poem by George Wither (1588–1667) sometimes called "The Lover's Resolution," and begin:

'SHALL I, wasting in despair,
Die because a woman 's fair?
Or make pale my cheeks with care
'Cause another's rosy are?
Be she fairer than the day,
Or the flow'ry meads in May,
If she think not well of me,
What care I how fair she be?

It was sung by Mr. Vernon

Source for notated version:

Printed sources: Skillern ("Twenty-Four Country Dances for the Year 1780'), 1780; p. 6.

Recorded sources:

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